Family History Research: by Lorna Flint Laughton

Elizabeth SHERRIFF

Female Abt 1855 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Elizabeth SHERRIFF  [1
    Birth Abt 1855  Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Birth Abt 1855  Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Since she was age 6 when the census was taken on April 7, 1861, her birth year was calculated as circa 1855.
    Census 7 Apr 1861  Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • She was enumerated as age 6, and born in Selkirk, Selkirkshire. She was living with her parents, brothers Alexander and William Sherriff, and sisters, Margaret and Jane Sherriff on Bogus Close. Their house had 2 rooms with one or more windows. They were enumerated as living next to the Established Church Manse.
    Census 2 Apr 1871  Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • She was enumerated as age 15, born in Selkirk, Selkirkshire, unmarried, and a woolen darner. She was living with her parents, her brother, Alexander Sherriff, her sisters, Margaret, Jane and Agnes Y. Sherriff, her neice, Ann Sherriff, and a boarder, Andrew Grieve. They lived at 23 High Street in a house of two rooms with one or more windows.
    Reference Number 21.4 
    _TODO Open 
    • Elizabeth Sherriff, daughter of Alexander & Margaret (Cairns) Sherriff born c. 1855 in Selkirk. Age 15 on April 2, 1871. May have extra info on family.
    _UID E81BAB1E707445BAA52A3A8ED6B330F7F6A5 
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I10812  Everyone
    Last Modified 10 May 2007 

    Father Alexander SHERRIFF,   b. 1824, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jun 1876, Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years) 
    Mother Margaret CAIRNS,   b. Abt 1822, Jedburgh, Roxboroughshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Apr 1903, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Marriage Banns Bef 29 Nov 1847  Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • They had "been three several times duly and regularly proclaimed in the parish Church of Saint Cuthbert's, in order to Marriage, and no objections offered".
    Marriage 29 Nov 1847  Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Family ID F318  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S915] Laughton, Lorna Flint, A00814, 10 May 2007, Number 89. Enumerator: Alexander Hope., A00814. (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S916] Laughton, Lorna Flint, A00815, 10 May 2007, No. 105 [109?], A00815. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S707] Clerk of St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, A00617, 28 May 2005, Marriages book page 316, A00617. (Reliability: 4).

    4. [S350] Eric Thomson, A00285, (September 1981. Edinburgh, Scotland.), 11 Feb 2002, A00285. (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S910] Registrar, Government of Scotland, A00809, 22 Apr 2007, A00809. (Reliability: 4).



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