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Rev. James CAIRNCROSS
(Abt 1791–1851)
Hannah Hedley McKAY
(1795-After 1851)
James Edmund CAIRNCROSS
(1830 –1893)

 

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1. Elizabeth LINDSAY

James Edmund CAIRNCROSS 2
  • Born: 1830, Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland 3 4
  • Christened: 6 July 1830, Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland 5
  • Marriage (1): Elizabeth LINDSAY on 31 January 1866 in Brant County, Ontario, Canada 1 2
  • Died: 13 December 1893, Birtle, Manitoba, Canada at age 63 6 7 8

bullet   Other names for James were James CAIRNCROSS 1 8 and James KAIRNCROSS.5

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bullet  General Notes

James Edmund Cairncross (1830--13 Dec 1893) was born in Birsay, Orkney, Scotland, and moved with his parents to Ontario, Canada.  As a boy, James E. Cairncross was in the British Royal Navy for a time; then for a while he was a Mississippi river boatman working on a steam boat; then he turned his hand to building houses in the summer and coffins in the winter in Ontario.  He met his future wife, Elizabeth Lindsay (1835--9 Sept 1928), in Ontario and married her there. He had a farm and and a store near Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada. After the 1873 panic went to Manitoba to farm. Died 1893, Birtle, Manitoba, Canada.

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • He appeared on the census in 1891 in Birtle, Marquette, Manitoba, Canada.

    1891 census - "Marquette" District of Manitoba:
    Division 1, Location: Birtle Town;
    pg 14, Family #73, Entry #7
    Film #T-6293 (I believe this refers to the film # of
    the Canadian Archives):

    James CAIRNCROSS, age 61, b. Scotland; Presbyterian; Farmer; (so b ca 1830)

    others in same household:
    Elizabeth CAIRNCROSS, age 52, b. Scotland, Presbyterian (b ca 1839)
    James R. CAIRNCROSS, age 24, b. Ontario, Presbyterian (so b ca 1867)
    Matilda CAIRNCROSS, age 20, b Ontario, Presbyterian (b ca 1871)
    Edward W. CAIRNCROSS, age 17, b Ontario, Presbyterian (b ca 1874)
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James married Elizabeth LINDSAY on 31 January 1866 in Brant County, Ontario, Canada.1 2 (Elizabeth LINDSAY was born on 29 October 1835 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland 1 4 6 9 and died on 19 September 1928 in Burquitlam, British Columbia, Canada 6 7 10.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801–1928, 1933 –1934 [database on-line]; index and digital images (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages. Archives of Ontario, Toronto).
  2. Kirsty M. Haining.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.
  4. Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Edmund Carencross family, Twin Falls City, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA.
  5. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R) [database on-line] (Copyright © 1980, 2002), Parish Records, Batch No. C110134 (Birsay, Orkney, Scotland), 1820 –1854.
  6. Personal knowledge of John Boyd Craven (1930 – 2014), family historian.
  7. John B. Craven, “The Hainings and the Cravens: A Twentieth Century Family History” (mss. privately published in 1995, but it was a work in progress. John continued to update, add content, and re-write his manuscript up until his death in 2014.), Chapter 19:  The Cairncrosses and the Lindsays.
  8. Manitoba, Canada — Vital Statistics Index. Manitoba government website:  http://web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php
  9. Ancestry.com, 1901 Census of Canada [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006. Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1901. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada. RG31, T-6428 to T-6556).
  10. Ancestry.com, British Columbia Death Index: 1872 to 1979 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.) Original data: British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency. British Columbia, Canada. British Columbia Vital Statistics Agency: P.O. Box 9657, Stn Prov Govt, Victoria, BC V8W 9P3.


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