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| Birth | 14 DEC 1815
| Liff and Benvie c14/12/1815 |
| Death | 2 APR 1876
| Flax Dresser Grocer stated at sons death in 1939 |
| Father | William Whitton | 20 FEB 1796
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| Mother | Elizabeth Thornton | 25 SEP 1791
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| Notes |
Lochee Forfarshire at birth
at 1851 census at Back Street, Leslie a Flaxdresser
Grocer 1859 at sons death
In 1861 Parocial Register of Leslie it states that at Back Street, Leslie, W Whitton is a Grocer
at 1861 census at Back Street, Leslie, Fife a Flaxdresser
Informant at brother-in-law James Brown's death in 1968
At 1871 census a Boarder Married at Port Glasgow a Flax Dresser indexed under Whitten ref 374-00004-000001
Stated to be a Flax Dresser at sons marriage in 1871 . Grocer at sons death in 1939
at Back Street, Leslie, Fife is a cottage with Williams name across the door licenced to sell spirits. Photograph in records. However I think that his wife Euphemia was actually the Grocer but that as the male the licence and the shop was in her husbands name.
at D.C. Poor House, Markinch at death a pauper.
Why was his son William born in France? in 1848. All his other children were born, in Leslie, Fife before and after. |
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