James FISHER [9070]

James FISHER [9070]
(1861-Aft 1911)

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Spouses/Children:
Janet WATERS, (parents known) [9523]

James FISHER [9070]

Born: 15 Mar 1861, Kinghorn, Fife
Marriage: Janet WATERS, (parents known) [9523] on 31 Dec 1886 in Kinghorn, Fife ¹
Died: Aft 1911

General Notes:

1891 - 71 High Street, Kinghorn
James Fisher 30 shale worker
Janet Fisher 23
William Fisher 3
Margaret Fisher 2
David Fisher 4 Mo

1901 - 5, Wilkie Place, North Leith
James Fisher head, ship caulker 40 Kinghorn
Janet Fisher wife 33 Kinghorn
William Fisher son 13 Kinghorn
Maggie Fisher daur 11 Kinghorn
David Fisher 10 Kinghorn
Jeanie Fisher daur 4 Kinghorn
Elizabeth Fisher daur 2 Kinghorn
John Horn lodger, gen.lab. 27 Kinghorn [should be age 37]
James Miller lodger, gen.lab. 23 Burntisland

I wonder if James and Janet Fisher had other children, there's a long gap between David age 10 and Jeanie age 4.

[Note: John Horn was married to Jessie Fisher, and should be shown as "brother-in-law" of James Fisher.
Jessie and her three Horn children were in Kinghorn at 1901 census]

Noted events:

1881 census: head, married at 22, Nethergate, Kinghorn, Fife. ²

28 Jan 1911: registered father's death, Kinghorn, Fife. ³

1911: resided in Largo Place, Leith, Midlothian, Scotland. ³

James married Janet WATERS, (parents known) [9523] [MRIN: 2825] on 31 Dec 1886 in Kinghorn, Fife.¹ (Janet WATERS, (parents known) [9523] was born on 21 Feb 1867 in Dunfermline, FIF, Scotland and died after 1901.)

1 Kinghorn Marriages 1887 439/02 (James Fisher, Janet Watters).
married 31 December 1886 at Kinghorn; rites of Established Church
JAMES FISHER miner bachelor age 25
Old Abden, Kinghorn
father William Fisher labourer
mother Margaret Fisher ms Beatson deceased
JANET WATTERS domestic servant, spinster age 19
Burrells Wynd, Kinghorn
father David Watters miner
mother Margaret Watters ms Watters.

2 UK 1881 0439, 01, 21/2.
22 Nethergate, Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland
James FISHER head married 25, iron works labourer, born Burntisland Fife.
Jane FISHER wife 24 flax mill worker, Kinghorn Fife

3 Kinghorn Deaths 1911 439/05 (William Fisher).
WILLIAM FISHER surfaceman age 79
widower of Margaret Whyte
died 28 January 1911 at Old Abden, Kinghorn
father James Fisher labourer deceased
mother Jeanie Fisher ms [not given] deceased
cause bronchitis
informant James Fisher, son, Largo Place, Leith.
[the informant James was obviously unsure of his grandmother's name, it was actually Christian Guild.]

James FISHER [9070]

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