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William Baillie (1806-1858) |
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On May 27, 1806, in the parish of Channelkirk, Berwickshire |
To Margaret Hislop, at the parish of Stow, Midlothian (OPR index) on January 8, 1830 |
On September 21, 1858, at 23 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh/Castle and Portsburgh, Midlothian |
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Zerub Baillie and Agnes Taylor |
John Baillie, James Baillie,
Robert Baillie, Thomas Baillie, Zerub Baillie, Agnes Baillie, Janet Baillie,
Nichol Baillie |
Zerub Baillie, Andrew Baillie, John
Baillie, Robert Baillie, Elizabeth Baillie |
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William Baillie was a general merchant. See the transcript of the birth record of William Baillie in the page for his father, Zerub Baillie (c. 1781 - ?). The 1841 census shows William and his family living at Fountainhall in Stow: 1841 Census index – Fountainhall [ref: 699-7 Stow MLN]
William died in Edinburgh in 1858: William Baillie, 53, general merchant Died 21.9.1858 at 23 Lauriston Place Married Father: decd. Zerubbabel Baillie, shepherd Mother:
decd. Agnes Baillie MS Taylor Informant of death: his son, Andw Baillie, present Cause of death: disease of brain, many months Certified by W. Young M.D., who saw deceased 21.9.1858 Buried Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh, as certified by John Baillie, undertaker Ref: D-1858-685/3-522 Edinburgh/Castle & Portsburgh MLN The undertaker was possibly William’s elder brother John, as joiners were often coffin-makers and undertakers. |
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Monumental inscriptions A transcript of the monumental inscriptions in the Grange Cemetery [Scottish Genealogy Society Library, Edinburgh, unpublished, stone no. 305] has: William Baillie, merchant, Fountainhall, died 21.9.1858 aged 53. His wife Margaret Hislop d. 2.4.1862 aged
56. Their son Robert d. 1837 aged 16
months. Thr(ee?) children died in
infancy. Their dau. Eliza d. 1844
aged 11 months. [On reverse of stone] Rev. Zerub Baillie, d. 4.8.1865 aged 34, after 9 years in Old Calabar. His wife Mary Marshall Cowan, d. at Old Calabar, 13.9.1862 aged 28. Their only child Willie d. 26.9.1862 aged 13 months. Rev. John Baillie, missionary, Old Calabar, d. 7.5.1864 aged 29. Agnes Brown, wife of Rev. Andrew Baillie, d. at Lucea, Jamaica, 25.11.1872 aged 31. |
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Sources: (1) Census of 1841: kindly furnished on October 21, 2002, by Dr. J.A. Robertson, a genealogical researcher in Edinburgh. (2) Transcript of the death certificate of Willaim Baillie (1806-1858): kindly provided on October 7, 2002, by Dr. J.A. Robertson, Edinburgh. (3) Monumental inscription: kindly provided on October 21, 2002, by Dr. J.A. Robertson, Edinburgh. |
