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SHEARER, John
(1815-About 1880)
McDEDD, Agnes
(1815-1905)
SHEARER, Elizabeth
(1834-1895)
SHEARER, Elisabeth
(1873-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. PEW, Daniel

SHEARER, Elisabeth 1

  • Born: 28 April 1873, Gartness, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1 2 3 4
  • Marriage (1): PEW, Daniel in 1895

   Other names for Elisabeth were BALLANTYNE, Elizabeth 2 3 and PEW, Elizabeth.4

  General Notes:

Elisabeth was born in 1873 to "Elisabeth Ballantine MS Shearer, an outdoor worker, widow of Robert Ballantine coal miner", and was deemed illegitimate. Her mother notified the registrar at Shotts of the birth and made her X mark.

In the 1901 census Elizabeth Pew was recorded as born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire. 1 4


Elisabeth married Daniel PEW in 1895. (Daniel PEW was born about 1876 in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland 4.)


Sources


1 GRO Scotland, Parish of Shotts Lanarkshire Births 1873.

2 1891 UK Census, Shotts parish Lanarkshire; ED: 1; Page: 13.

3 1881 UK census, Shotts parish Lanarkshire; ED: 1; Page: 9.

4 1901 UK Census, New Monkland Lanarkshire; ED: 8; Page: 5.

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