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Matches 6,901 to 6,950 of 7,331
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| 6901 | This un-named son is presumed to have died at birth. | Galloch, Son (I6671)
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| 6902 | This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, querie. | Source (S2411)
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| 6903 | This unknown daughter was adopted. | Jenkins, Daughter (I20824)
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| 6904 | This unknown son is described in Stewarts of the South as a "student of Divinity." | Stewart, Son (I18252)
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| 6905 | This unnamed child is presumed to have died at birth. | Stewart, Child (I15431)
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| 6906 | This unnamed infant died at birth. | Furler, Infant (I6427)
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| 6907 | This unnamed infant died at birth. | Furler, Infant2 (I6428)
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| 6908 | This unnamed son is described in Stewarts of the South as being a minor aged son of Donald Stewart in Milton of Aberfoyle. The only potential matches in the Aberfoyle OPR are: Catharine, F, 8/5/1791, Donald and Margt Stewart in Commer, par of Buchanan Jean, F, 21/4/1793, Donald and Margt. Stewart, In Comer, parish of Buchanan | Stewart, _____ (I21212)
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| 6909 | This Walter is believed to be the Walter Dubh Mor Stewart who died with his two sons in the service of Montrose at the Battle of Kilsyth, 15 AUG 1645. Onomastics would suggest that he should be the oldest son, but by his premature death without surviving heirs the estate of Gartnafuaran would have passed to his brother, Andrew. Walter is mentioned in Stewarts of the South: "Although they are the last, I think they ought to be the second, at least. In general, they are something like to the family of Ardvorlich, not altogether valiant as the Glenbuckie family, but more of a Low country nature. The only distinguished character known to me of this family was one "Walter-du-mor" ("Big Black Walter") who [along] with his two sons was killed at the battle of Kilsyth, [although] some say, however, that they were killed at the battle of "Bodle brig" (Battle of Bothwell Bridge, 22 June 1679), which was certainly not the case." This Walter is likely the "Walter Stewart in Glenfinglas" cited on 1 MAR 1645 in the Parliamentary Pardon of Maj. James Beag Stewart, 2nd of Ardvorlich, for Ardvorlich's murder of Lord Kilpont at the Battle of Tibbermuir. | Stewart, Walter Dubh Mor in Glenfinglas (I18425)
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| 6910 | This was her second marriage. Her first marriage was to a Jones. | Fisher, Nell (I6064)
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| 6911 | This William also died as a child. | Stuart, William Maynard (I18837)
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| 6912 | This William's existence is not confirmed. MacGregor does not show this William, but Stirnet does. If this William existed then he may have died as a child as we have no further record of him. | Stewart, William (I18436)
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| 6913 | Thomas and Alice have not been found in any census records after 1861. It is presumed that they died or emigrated. As they had only daughters, it is very difficult to determine the whereabouts of their children. 1861 Census shows Thomas as born in 1820. An LDS member submitted tree claims he was born 1 MAR 1814 and died 15 MAR 1866, son of William and Jane. For now, I am following this secondary source research. | Crook, Thomas (I3084)
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| 6914 | Thomas and Mary Roberts are far from certain as the parents of Sarah Roberts. This is based solely on the fact that the 1881 census shows a Robert Roberts and a Charles Roberts living with the Anguses. If Robert and Charles are Sarah's brothers then a possible match can be made in the IGI with a family of Thomas and Mary Roberts. | Roberts, Thomas (I13665)
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| 6915 | Thomas Angus was baptized on 4 Sep 1768 in St Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, as the son of Thomas Angus of Quarmore. He died a year and a half later and was buried on 25 May 1770 in St Paul, Caton, Lancashire, England. | Angus, Thomas (I31)
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| 6916 | Thomas Angus was born in 1887 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. In 1891, at age 3, Thomas was residing with his parents and siblings in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. In 1901, Thomas was residing at 8 Mill Street in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his parents and siblings. He was employed as an iron fitter's apprentice. In 1911, at age 23, Thomas Angus was residing at 77 Clarence Street in Lancaster, Lancashire, England with his new wife, Martha, and their newborn daughter, Alice. Thomas was employed as a warehouseman in an oil and cloth works. In 1939, Thomas Angus was residing at 17 Fleet Street in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He was employed as a grinder in a paint mill. His wife was residing in the Lancashire County Mental Hospital at the time. | Angus, Thomas (I21015)
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| 6917 | Thomas Angus/Anghurst, Sr., was born in 1737 in Over Wyresdale, Lancashire, England. Thomas was 20 years old when his father died in 1757. On 25 May 1765, at age 28, Thomas Angus married in St. Mary's, Lancaster, Lancashire, England to Jane Bleazard. She was from Quernmore/Quarmore, Lancashire, England, which is on the road from Over Wyresdale to Lancaster. Both bride and groom signed with their mark. The marriage was witnessed by John Carter and Thomas Cartmel whose relationship to the couple is unknown. Thomas and Jane settled in Jane's home of Quernmore where they had their family. Thomas is described in parish records as being employed as a husbandman. (The term normally means someone who looks after animals, however in northern England it was also used to signify a tenant farmer.) On 19 Mar 1795, at age 58, Thomas Angus died and was buried at St Paul, Caton, Lancashire, England, near Quernmore. | Angus, Thomas Sr. in Quernmore (I377)
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| 6918 | Thomas Angus/Angious (III) was born in 1811 in the settlement of Bulk, near Quernmore, in rural Lancaster, Lancashire, England. At his birth, his surname was written as Angious. His mother died a year later. There's no indication that his father remarried afterwards. Thomas is believed to have married ABT 1835 to Mary Ann Atkinson b: 1818 in Keighley, Yorkshire, England, although no record of their marriage has been found. Mary Ann's surname is not recorded in census records, however the fact that their eldest son is named Thomas Atkinson Angus and that he sometimes identifies as Thomas Angus Atkinson, suggests that her surname was likely Atkinson. Census records show Mary Ann as being born in Keighley, Yorkshire, England. A matching Mary Ann Atkinson, who is the right age, can be found born in Keighley, Bradford, Yorkshire, England to parents Benjamin Atkinson and Susanna Pearson. Her father, Benjamin Atkinson, owned Prospect House on Chapel Lane in Keighley, Yorkshire, England. He was a tailor and draper and employer of four. The house is currently listed for £530,000 (2023). The fact that she came from a landed family, yet no record of their marriage has been found, and they didn't name any of their children after her parents, may suggest that they married against her parents' wishes, or never married at all. In 1939, at age 28, Thomas' only surviving sister died. In 1841, at age 25 (sic), Thomas Angus was residing at Black Cat Yarn near St. Leonard's Gate in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife, Mary, and their first two children, Thomas (IV) and Margaret. Thomas was employed as an agricultural labourer. Mary was not employed. Her birth was given as outside Lancashire. Thomas' elderly widowed father, Thomas Angus, III, was residing with them. Black Cat Yarn is not found on any maps and is presumed to be the name of a yarn factory with residential apartments located near St. Leonard's Gate. In 1851, at age 40, Thomas Angus was residing at Wood Street in Castle Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and children. He was employed as an agricultural labourer. In most cases, Thomas' children were employed in the cotton mills by age 12. In 1861, at age 47 (sic, 50), Thomas Angus was residing at Back Castle Street in Castle Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and children. He was employed as a labourer. In 1871, at age 45 (sic, 60), Thomas Angus was residing at 94 St. Leonard's Gate in Castle Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and children. He was employed as an agricultural labourer. In 1873, when Thomas was 61 years old, his wife Mary Ann died. Thomas was still alive at the time of his son Josephs' marriage on 27 Dec 1879, but he has not been found in the 1881 census, which was conducted on 3 Apr 1881. His daughters, Margaret and Mary Ann were residing in his house without him in 1881 and he was not residing with any of his other adult children. No death record has been found for him. He is presumed to have died between between 27 Dec 1879-3 Apr 1881. | Angus, Thomas III (I379)
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| 6919 | Thomas Angus/Angious was baptized 16 Jun 1811 in St Mary's parish, Lancaster, Lancashire, England as the illegitimate son of Betty Angious in Lancaster. He died two years later. (https://lan-opc.org.uk/) | Angus, Thomas (I380)
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| 6920 | Thomas Angus/Angious was born on 31 Oct 1807 and was baptized on 22 Nov 1807 at St Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England as the son of William Angious & Ann of Skerton, Lancashire, England. Thomas died at age 3. | Angus, Thomas (I376)
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| 6921 | Thomas Angus/Angious, Jr., was baptized on 11 Aug 1771 in St Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, as the son of Thomas Angus in Quarmore, Yorkshire, England. On 18 May 1807, at age 36, Thomas Angus of Bulk (rural Lancaster), a husbandman, married in St. Mary, Lancaster, Lancashire, England to 27 year old Margaret Johnson of Thornton parish. Bride and groom both signed with their mark. The marriage was witnessed by Thomas Blezard and Betty Angus. (Presumably a cousin and his sister.) ("Husbandman," in northern England, was a term used to refer to a tenant farmer.) "The civil parish of Bulk was in Lancaster Rural District until 1900 when most of it (179 houses) was incorporated into the Municipal Borough of Lancaster, with 9 houses going into the civil parish of Quernmore.... Bulk lies north of the city centre of Lancaster and... east of the River Lune." (Wikipedia) At the births of Thomas' children, his surname is given as Angious. In 1812, Six years after they married, Thomas' wife, Margaret, age 32, died leaving Thomas, age 42, a widower to raise their two surviving children. It appears that he never remarried. Thomas died in 1845 at age 73, having been predeceased by his wife and both daughters. In 1841, at age 70 and widowed, Thomas Angus (Jr) was residing at Black Cat Yarn near St. Leonard's Gate in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his only surviving son, Thomas Angus (III) and his son's young family. Thomas was not employed. Black Cat Yarn is not found on any maps and is presumed to be the name of a yarn factory with residential apartments located near St. Leonard's Gate. | Angus, Thomas Jr. in Bulk (I378)
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| 6922 | Thomas Atkinson Angus was born in 1836 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He occasionally went by Thomas Angus Atkinson, using his mother's surname, for reasons unknown. His mother, Mary Ann Atkinson, came from a wealthy landed family, while the Angus family were not wealthy. Thomas' uncle John was so poor that he and his family were removed from Lancaster and forcibly returned to Over Wyresdale as a pauper without the means to provide for themselves. So, it is suspect that Thomas may have wanted to trade on his mother's family's good name. In 1841, at age 5, Thomas Angus was residing at Black Cat Yarn near St. Leonard's Gate in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his parents and baby sister. Black Cat Yarn is not found on any maps and is presumed to be the name of a yarn factory with residential apartments located near St. Leonard's Gate. In 1851, at age 15, Thomas Angus was residing on Wood Street in St. John's Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his parents and siblings. He was employed as a cotton corder. On 21 Feb 1857, at age 20. Thomas Angus Atkinson, a cotton carder, son of Thomas Atkinson, a labourer, residing at Brewery Lane in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, married in St. Mary’s parish church in Lancaster, to Letitia Masica, daughter of Thomas Masica, a labourer residing on Bath Street in Lancaster. On 20 Apr 1859, Thomas Atkinson Angus and his wife Letitia had a daughter, Mary Ann Angus. The were residing in Caton, Lancashire, England and Thomas was employed as an overlooker at the time. In 1861, at age 25, Thomas Angus (going by the surname Atkinson) was residing at Knowles Green in Ribchester, Lancashire, England, with his wife, Letitia and their newborn daughter, Mary Ann Atkinson Angus. Thomas was employed as a corder. In Jan 1863, Letitia Angus died in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Sometime between 1863-1871, Thomas married to Sarah Ann. Her surname is unknown. In 1871, at age 30 (sic), Thomas Angus was residing in Barrow, Lancashire, England, with his second wife, Sarah, who was born in Back Barrow, and Thomas' two younger brothers, William and John. All three brothers were employed as labourers Thomas Angus is presumed to have married sometime around 1876 to Sarah Ann. Her surname is unknown. She is found in the 1881 census (below). On 18 June 1878, Thomas Angus and his wife Sarah Ann had a son named Thomas A Angus in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. In 1878, sometime between July to Sept, mere weeks after his son was born, Thomas Angus died in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. In 1880, Thomas' daughter, Mary Ann Atkinson Angus, married James Bleasdale. In 1881, Thomas' widow, Sarah A. Angus, was residing at 8 Brewery Lane (Yard) in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Her daughter and son-in-law, James and Mary Ann Bleasdale, were residing with her. Sarah was born in 1847 in Backbarrow, Lancashire, England. She was employed as a cotton throstle spinner. Sarah had a two year-old child, Thomas Angus, born in 1879, in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, presumed to have been born posthumously. No record has been found for Thomas second marriage to Sarah. Her birth surname is unknown. | Angus, Thomas Atkinson IV (I33)
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| 6923 | Thomas Atkinson Angus was born in 1878 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He was named after his father and was the fifth Thomas Angus in succession. He was only three months old when his father died. In 1881, at age 2, Thomas Angus was residing at 8 Brewery Lane (Yard) in Lancaster, Lancashire, England with his recently widowed mother and his half-sister, Mary Ann Bleasdale, and her family. In 1891, at age 12, Thomas Angus was residing at 3 Wilson's Yard in John O'Gaunt Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his widowed mother. In 1901, at age 22, Thomas Angus was residing at 3 Wilson's Court in Queen's Ward, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his widowed mother. Thomas was employed as a woodyard labourer. In 1903, when Thomas was 25, his half-sister, Mary Ann Bleasdale, died. In 1906, at age 28, Thomas Angus married in Lancaster, Lancashire, England to to 24-year-old, Alice Lofthouse. In 1908, when Thomas was 29, his mother died. In 1911, at age 32, Thomas Angus was residing at 21 Bulk Road, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, with his wife and their two young daughters. Thomas was employed as a paint word labourer. In 1939, at age 63, Thomas A Angus was residing at 21 Woodstock Street in Rochdale (suburban Manchester), Lancashire, England, with his wife Alice. He was employed as an India rubber compound mixer. Thomas Angus died in 1955 in Littleborough (Rochdale), Lancashire, England, at the age of 77. | Angus, Thomas Atkinson V (I23401)
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| 6924 | Thomas Beamish Stewart was named in part after his marternal grandmother, Mary Beamish. In 1911 and 1921, Thomas was residing in Toronto West, Ontario, Canada, with his parents and siblings. Thomas was a firefighter and later became District Fire Chief. | Stewart, District Chief Thomas Beamish (I18345)
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| 6925 | Thomas Bennie Stewart, July 20, 1939 - January 7, 2023 A loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather passed away in the early hours of January 7th, 2023. He will be deeply missed by his wife Penny, daughter Sara (Wayne) and granddaughters Colle and Breigh. Predeceased by his sons Andrew and Neil. Tom had a full life including being a Captain in the Queens York Rangers, an Akala with Scouts Canada; and a successful businessman. He was well liked and would offer help to anyone in need. (MacCoubrey Funeral Home, Coburg, Ontario, Canada) | Stewart, Thomas Bennie (I18346)
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| 6926 | Thomas Dawson was the first of the Dawson family to immigrate from Northumberland to Ontario in 1881. He was later followed by his younger brother Abraham, and then later still by his niece Frances Bell, and finally by his widowed sister Annie Bell (nee Dawson). The 1901 census shows Thomas Dawson as divorced, and the whereabouts of the rest of his family is unknown. | Dawson, Thomas (I3976)
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| 6927 | Thomas Galloch is presumed to be the son of Patrick Galloch, but he could just as easily be the son of Duncan Galloch already shown elsewhere. Thus, there may only be one Thomas Galloch having been married twice. However, the daughter named Janet suggests a preference from making Thomas the son of Janet Bruce.Thomas Galloch is believed to be the son of Duncan Galloch, but this is not verified. | Galloch, Thomas (I6674)
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| 6928 | Thomas Graham was the manager of the Victoria River Downs cattle property in Australia's Northern Territory until his death in 1926. Victoria River Downs, approximately 14,000 square miles in extent, was then the largest cattle run in the world. There's an article on Thomas Graham and his family at http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/graham.htm . | Graham, Thomas (I7196)
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| 6929 | Thomas Harkins was born in Donegal, Ireland. He was a farmer and Anglican. | Harkins, Thomas (I26473)
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| 6930 | Thomas has not been found in any census records. He may have emigrated or died prior to 1841. | Stewart, Thomas (I18307)
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| 6931 | Thomas Hulme Taylor, son of Captain William Taylor, inherited his father's flour and saw mills in Dawn Mills. To these he added, almost immediately, a wool factory. As owner of the flour, wool, and saw mills, and part-owner of the general store Thomas Taylor was an important figure in the Dawn Mills community. When the Great Western Railway was coming through, he campaigned unsuccessfully to have it come through Dawn Mills; instead, in 1854, the railroad went to the nearby town of Chatham. Business in Dawn Mills began to migrate to Chatham. Because of his family's founding history in Dawn Mills, Thomas Taylor was reluctant to move his business interests to Chatham. When his mother died in 1858 that seemed to free him to leave Dawn Mills and move to Chatham where the Taylor Mills Company remained in the family serving Kent County until well into the mid-20th century. When Taylor moved to Chatham he sold one of his mills to Alexander McVean who moved the mill to nearby Dresden. (c.f. Alexander McVean's lineage for a later marital connection to Taylor's sister, Alice Prangley, and for a surprising connection to this author four generations later.) Regrettably, Taylor's departure from Dawn Mills dealt a permanent economic blow to that once thriving village. Today the village of Dawn Mills no longer exists except as a dot on the map, a few houses, and the remnants of three dams where the mills once stood. In Chatham "T.H. Taylor & Co. operated on William Street just north of the Taylor-Richards flour mills, their Chatham Woollen Mills, established in 1869. Capital was about $60,000, the plant employing some 30 hands and consuming annually about 50,000 pounds of wool." (Romantic Kent, p.522) "The floating logs (on the Thames River)... formed a passageway over the rainbow-hued waters. The varied colors periodically tinging the creek came from the T.H. Taylor curing mill and dyeing works just around the creek bend, where blankets and many varieties of coating material were woven. Products of the Taylor Mill, then one of Chatham's foremost industries, were widely known for quality; Detroiters visiting Chatham on the excursion boats were extensive purchasers." (Romantic Kent, p.529) | Taylor, Thomas Hulme (I19110)
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| 6932 | Thomas is described in Stewarts of the South as: "Thomas who died young also." | Stewart, Thomas (I18306)
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| 6933 | Thomas is found residing in 1841 with his parents and younger siblings. On 23 May 1842, Thomas was convicted of larceny and sentenced to 12 months in prison. A matching Thomas Liptrot, born1815 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, can be found in 1851 residing in Tonge with Haulgh, Lancashire, England, employed as a carder, with a wife, Alice, and children Elizabeth, Sarah Ann, and Mary Jane. It is not known if it is this same Thomas Liptrot. This Thomas is shown in a marriage record as being married to Alice Marsh and was son of Robert Liptrot, so not the same person | Liptrot, Thomas (I8940)
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| 6934 | Thomas is identified in the Glassingall Court of Session Papers (1849-1856) only as "Thomas Smith of Edinburgh" who married on 12 July 1761 in Edinburgh to Helen Jaffrey. Nothing more is known of him. | Smith, Thomas Sr. (I21719)
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| 6935 | Thomas is not listed on the family stone in Kilmahog Cemetery and may have emigrated. | Stewart, Thomas (I18303)
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| 6936 | Thomas is not mentioned in Stewarts of the South and is presumed to have died young. | Stewart, Thomas (I18301)
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| 6937 | Thomas is not recalled by Janet nor is he found with the family in the 1881 census so he is presumed to have died as a child. | Hunter, Thomas (I8139)
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| 6938 | Thomas is presumed to have died young before the birth of his same-named brother. | Chew, Thomas (I2553)
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| 6939 | Thomas is recorded in Stewarts of the South as being unmarried ca. 1815-1820. He is believed to be the Thomas Stewart found residing at Bridge End of Callander in 1851 working as a mason, with no family and shown as born 1793. However he is only three years different in age from his cousin Thomas Stewart, b 1795, so the possibility exists that it could be the other Thomas. Thomas died in Callander in 1856 and is buried in Kilmahog. His death was witnessed by his nephew, Robert McLaren, which would further suggest that Thomas never married nor had any children. | Stewart, Thomas (I18302)
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| 6940 | Thomas is wrongly recorded in 1871 as a "son in law" of John Gow. | Gow, Thomas (I7115)
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| 6941 | Thomas Liptrot arrived in 1913 with his his two sons, Thomas and Walter, and his brother-in-law, Richard (Dick) Jones, and Dick's daughter, Sarah Jones. It is presumed that their wives arrived at another time. After arrival, Thomas worked for his brother-in-law, Dick, as an apprentice bricklayer. He then went to work for Procter & Gamble as a bricklayer. [It appears there are two Thomas Liptrots from Bolton, England, who both married Elizabeths, and both couples emigrated from Bolton to Hamilton, ON around the same year. The other Thomas Liptrot was a newsworthy competitive cyclist.] | Liptrot, Thomas Crook (I8921)
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| 6942 | Thomas Lowther Angus was born in 1900 in Halton, Lancashire, England. His middle name comes from his paternal grandmother's surname. In 1901, at age 9 months, Thomas Angus was residing in Caton, Halton, Lancashire, England with his parents and siblings. In 1911, at age 10, Thomas Angus was residing at Church Street in Halton, Lancaster, England, with his parents and siblings. On 6 May 1912 Thomas Angus, along with his birth family, immigrated from Lancashire, England to Quebec, Canada, bound for Michigan, USA. In 1920, at age 19, Thomas L Angus was residing in Burton, Genesee, Michigan, USA, with his parents and siblings. He was employed as a farm labourer on his father's rented farm. On 25 Feb 1922, at age 21, Thomas Lowther Angus married in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA, to 19-year-old Opal Fern Young. They had three children then divorced 8 years later. In 1930, at age 29, Thomas Angus was residing in Millington, Tuscola, Michigan, USA, with his wife Fern and their children. He was employed as a tool setter in an auto factory. They were residing with her parents. On 11 Dec 1930, at age 30, Thomas Angus divorced his wife Opal. The children remained with him as they are found residing with Thomas in the next census in 1940. On 16 Apr 1932, at age 31, just 16 months after his divorce, Thomas L Angus married in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA to 25-year-old divorcee, Lucille Josephine Shaver (nee Taylor). They had two children then divorced 13 years later. (As Lucille's maiden name, Taylor, is the same as Thomas' mother's maiden name, it's not known if his new wife was also a cousin. That potential connection has not been researched.) In 1940, at age 39, Thomas Angus was residing on Montana Avenue in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA with his second wife and his children from both marriages. He was employed as a tool set up in an automobile factory. On 18 Apr 1945, at age 44, Thomas Angus divorced his second wife, Lucille. He never remarried. She married again in 1948 to Clive Mayle. The custody situation of the children is unknown as they were all residing with their spouses by the next census in 1950 In 1950, at age 50, Thomas Angus was residing in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, USA, with his elderly parents. None of his children were with him. He was employed as a stock handler in the automotive industry, earning $3200/year. Thomas' later whereabouts is unknown. No record has been found of his death. | Angus, Thomas Lowther (I375)
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| 6943 | Thomas may have been born b 20 FEB 1802 in Barony, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, son of Andrew Stewart and Elspeth Oliver. It is a perfect onomastic match and the family of James Oliver (age 33 from Scotland) was residing nearby in 1851. On 3 May 1829, Thomas married in St. Ninian's, Stirling, Scotland, to Hannah Smith. In 1851, Thomas was residing in North Dumfries, Brant, Ontario, Canada with his wife and children. He was a farmer and an Anti-Burgher Presbyterian. | Stewart, Thomas (I23455)
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| 6944 | Thomas Oliphant was Constable of Edinburgh Castle. He was married twice and it is unclear which wife is the mother of which children. | Oliphant, Thomas (I12097)
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| 6945 | Thomas Rock's origins are presently unknown. He married Mary Lutes in 1820 in the Niagara area. Based on the known birth information of the children, it is presumed that the family first lived in Pelham, Niagara and later moved to Townsend in Haldimand County. | Rock, Thomas (I13891)
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| 6946 | Thomas served as a Private in the 120th Battalion in WWI. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Corporal. At the time of his enlistment, on 20 Dec 1915, he was residing at 132 Birch Ave., Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada and employed as a machinist. His next of kin was listed as his father, Thomas Angus. On 10 Aug 1916, he was transferred to England. On 18 April 1917, he was sent to Amiens, France. On 9 Aug 1918, he was wounded in combat, receiving a through and through gunshot wound to his right buttocks. He was treated at a field hospital in Amiens, the transferred on 11 Aug 1918 to a hospital in Rouen, France, for surgery to remove the bullet. The surgery was unsuccessful because there was no bullet to remove. (Hence the injury being recorded as "through and through.") On 16 Aug 1918, he was transferred to Bristol Hospital, Bristol, England. He was discharged a month later. Subsequent x-rays showed the bullet still inside. On 12 Sept 1918, he was transferred to a Canadian military hospital in Oprington (London), England. On 15 Oct 1918, he was declared healed and recommended for return to the command depot. He was honourably discharged on 11 Jan 1919. He was paid $15/month for his service. Thomas and Rose lived in Hamilton. Thomas died at age 33 from pneumonia. They never had any children. Rose lived alone as a widow for the remaining 58 years of her life. | Angus, L. Cpl. Thomas Wilkinson (I35)
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| 6947 | Thomas Stewart married his first cousin, Christina Stewart. His father and her mother were brother and sister. But they were also second-cousins on his paternal grandmother's side and third-cousins on his paternal great-grandfather's side. They were also fourth-cousins on her mother's side and his father's side. It's a good thing they never had children. Their autosomal DNA results would have been a nightmare to sort out. This is an extreme example of endogamous community life. | Stewart, Thomas (I18304)
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| 6948 | Thomas Stuart Smith was a Scottish painter whose colourful life story provided the inspiration for the fictional character of Davie Balfour of Shaws in Robert Louis Stevenson's novels, Kidnapped and Catriona. He was the illegitimate son of Thomas Smith, whose brother, Alexander Smith, was the last in the Stewart line to own the estate of Glassingall. When Alexander died intestate, Thomas Stuart Smith, was ultimately the successful of 18 claimants vying for the inheritance of the estate. He later sold Glassingall and used the money to support his art and to later establish the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum in Stirling, Scotland. His paintings were significant for the era in portraying black persons as free and independent people during a time when slavery and abolition were hotly contested issues. -------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stuart_Smith Life Thomas Stuart Smith was born in 1815 as the secret illegitimate nephew of Alexander Smith, who had the estate at Glassingall, Dunblane, Scotland. Alexander's brother, the father, sent Thomas to a school in France whilst he conducted his business in Canada and the East Indies. In 1831 no fees were paid and Thomas thought his father must have died. He returned to England, when he and his uncle learned of each other for the first time. They did not meet, but Alexander advanced sums to him from time to time. Smith started working as a tutor. He later became interested in painting from an Italian master painter whom he met whilst serving as a traveling tutor to a British family. His uncle Alexander supplied funding so that he could travel and paint in Italy starting in 1840. By the end of that decade, Smith was having his work accepted by both the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. His first painting at the Royal Academy was bought by Professor Owen, an acquaintance of Edwin Landseer, who was said to have admired it repeatedly. Inheritance In 1849 Alexander Smith died intestate. Thomas took possession of the family's estate in 1857 after vying at great expense with eighteen other aspirants. During the eight years that he had waited in hope of his inheritance, he taught art at the Nottingham School of Design. James Orrock, the collecter and watercoulourist, was one of his pupils; he commented on how Smith could paint anything. Smith was known to the Barbizon School of realistic painting, including the animal painters Constant Troyon and John Phillip RA. Having gained the estate, he kept it just six years. He sold it and used the funds to move to London. His legal costs had been high. His new fortune enabled him to create an art collection at a studio in Fitzroy Square that included his own work. He decided to create an Institute in Stirling to house his new collection. He drew up plans for a library, museum, and a reading room and he offered £5,000 to the council if they could donate a site within two years. He signed the trust into existence in November 1869 with himself, James Barty, the Provost of Stirling and A.W.Cox, a fellow artist, as trustees. He did not see his plans fulfilled as he died the next month in Avignon. Legacy Smith is known primarily for founding the Smith Institute, which is now called the Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery. Smith also has hundreds of paintings in public ownership. Two of Smith's works that are still thought to be important are portraits he painted of black men. Unlike other depictions at the time, in which black people were included as servants, Smith's portraits Fellah of Kinneh and The Pipe of Freedom show his subjects as independent and free; they were painted to celebrate the abolition of slavery in America in 1865 following the American Civil War. He also did a smaller painting called The Cuban Cigarette, which has a similar presence. The Pipe of Freedom shows a man lighting a pipe; behind him a slave sale notice has been partially covered by an abolition notice. --------------- http://www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk/history/our-history/thomas-stuart-smith Thomas Stuart Smith was a man of fluctuating fortune with a colourful history who became an artist of considerable accomplishment, widely admired by his fellow artists. His grandmother was one of the Jaffray family in Stirling. The family story was that Thomas’s father and uncle were in love with the same woman, had a disagreement over her and parted. Thomas was illegitimate and his mother died when he was young. His father, a merchant working in Canada and the West Indies, sent the young Thomas to school in France. When the school fees failed to arrive in 1831, Thomas deduced that his father was dead. Thomas and his uncle Alexander Smith who held the estate of Glassingall, Dunblane were shocked to hear of each other’s existence. Alexander Smith, although he never met his newly discovered nephew, provided some financial support for him from time to time. Thomas Stuart Smith obtained a post as a tutor to a young noble man, travelling with the family to Naples, where he obtained for himself some tuition in painting from a master painter “Marsigli, the first painter here and one of the first in Italy”. In 1840 Thomas made “my first attempt at landscape and my first oil picture”. He was funded by his uncle to study and paint in various places in Italy in the 1840s, and by 1849 was exhibiting both at the Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Royal Academy in London. In that year, Alexander Smith died leaving no direct family and no will. Although he had been Thomas Stuart Smith’s main financial support, there was difficulty in proving their relationship, and eighteen people pursued claims on the Glassingall estate. It took Smith from 1849 to January 1857 to secure the inheritance of Glassingall. The estate was much diminished through the demands of legal fees, and Smith missed the warmth and light of the continent. In 1863 he sold the estate, rented a studio at Fitzroy Square in London and began to build up his own art collection, purchasing from his contemporaries both in Britain and in Europe. With no need to sell his own work, he liked the idea of building an Institute which would house it and his general collection for ‘the welfare of the town and district of Stirling in Scotland’. He drew up a ‘Trust Disposition and Settlement’ for the building of a ‘Museum or Institute’ in Stirling, agreeing to provide £5000 for the building if the town provided a site for it within two years. He had a very specific idea of how the building should be composed of three principal rooms of offices and store rooms, with space left on either side for contingent additions. The style of the building to be plain (Italian), but of first-rate material and construction - the three rooms to be a Museum, a Picture Gallery and a Library and Reading Room, adapted for the benefit of the artisan and working classes. He intended to oversee the construction himself. The Trust Disposition, naming his fellow artist A. W. Cox, his solicitor James Barty and the Provost of Stirling as Trustees was signed in November 1869. On 31 December he died unexpectedly at Avignon in the south of France. T. S. Smith was something of an artist’s artist. Having had to struggle to study and practice his art, he had great sympathy for others in the same position,and frequently helped others. The first picture he exhibited in the Royal Academy was a painting of two young artists asking for shelter at the door of a convent in Italy. It was bought by Professor Owen, who had it hanging in his London house. According to Sir William Stirling Maxwell, 'The late Sir Edwin Landseer was struck by it and never visited Professor Owen without taking it down from the wall and examining it with some new expression at the masterly qualities which it exhibited.' Smith was accomplished in landscape, interiors and excelled in portrait painting too. Whilst pursuing his claim to the Glassingall estate, he lived as an art teacher and portrait painter in Nottingham for a time. One of his pupils, James Orrock (1829-1913) recalled his work with delight and remembered him as ‘a man who could paint anything’, who was a close friend of John Phillip RA, and who knew Troyon and most of the other masters of the Barbizon School. Phillip regarded Smith as ‘one of the best living colourists’. In the last year of his life, Smith submitted two remarkable portraits to the Royal Academy. Both were of black men of African origin. The Fellah of Kinneh depicts a young man in striped robes. The Pipe of Freedom celebrates the abolition of slavery in America. A smaller study of the same man, The Cuban Cigarette, shows the subject in profile. In subject and presentation, these portraits are quite rare in Scottish painting, and were given pride of place in the Africa in Scotland exhibition in Edinburgh in 1996. They also featured in the Black Victorians exhibition in Birmingham in 2005 and in Manchester in 2006. Black people were sometimes included in paintings. The Lost Child Restored by Sir George Harvey in the Smith’s own collection, where the negro servant is depicted in the doorway is a good example of an incidental inclusion. In Smith’s paintings of black men, the subjects are central, handsome, proud, independent and free. With fellow landowners in the Stirling area managing estates in Jamaica, such paintings would not have been popular. However, another member of the Jaffray family, ‘Citizen’ William Jaffray (1749-1828) had attained local fame through assisting a female slave on the way back to the West Indies to abscond and claim her freedom. His national fame was won through vaccinating some 16,000 children and saving Stirling from the small pox epidemics which raged elsewhere. The work of T. S. Smith is often overlooked or under valued in Scottish art history. This is because the history is largely market-related. Smith had no need to paint for the board room or the market; his paintings were garnered for Stirling. He wanted his paintings to survive in a single collection, and bought back earlier works for that purpose when he was able to do so. | Smith, Thomas Stuart (I22909)
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| 6949 | Thomas succeeded to the lands of Grandtully upon the resignation of his father on 14 March 1538. | Stewart, Sir Thomas (I18343)
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| 6950 | Thomas was a plantation owner near Savannah, Georgia, USA. | Chisolm, Lt. Col. Thomas (I2847)
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