NISBET, Robert Coach Proprietor and Farmer ^{1 2}

   Cause of his death was cerebral disease over 10 years.⁴

   Another name for Robert was NISBETT, Robert.^{1 2 4}

  General Notes:

The 1851 census for Innerleithen recorded a household whose head was Robert Nisbet. They lived at Pirn Parks. The entry before that one was the household at Pirn House, where Thomas Horsburgh JP, an unmarried man aged 64 years, lived with a house maid and a servant. He was the landed proprietor of 3400 acres. Robert Nisbet was a married man, aged 57 years, who was a farmer of 123 acres employing six labourers. Robert had been born in "Etherim, Berwickshire" (possibly Edrom) and was blind. Robert's household consisted of himself, his wife, a daughter, two sons, and six servants -probably the labourers mentioned earlier.

When Robert Nisbett died in 1857, his death certificate recorded him as a retired farmer and married. His recorded age at death was 64 years and both of his parents were deceased. ^{4 5}

  Medical Notes:

John Robertson MD, who saw the deceased on 30 July 1857, certified the cause of death.

Robert was buried in the Churchyard of Innerleithen, as certified by William Ruckbie, Sexton.

Margaret Nisbett, the deceased's daughter who was present where her father's death occurred, gave notice on 3 August 1857 before the registrar, James Lyle, at Innerleithen. ⁴

Robert married Elizabeth HOPPER on 16 June 1829 in Saint Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, Scotland.¹ (Elizabeth HOPPER was born about 1769,⁶ died on 10 December 1835 in Innerleithen parish, Peeblesshire, Scotland ⁶ and was buried in 1835 in Innerleithen Churchyard, Peeblesshire, Scotland ⁶.)

  Marriage Notes:

Old Parish Register
St Cuthbert's Parish Edinburgh
Marriages

"Register of Marriages in 1829
15th June
Nisbett & Hooper or Taylor
Robert Nisbett, Coach Proprietor, Residing in No5 Gayfield Place & Elizabeth Hopper [sic] or Taylor, Residing in No13 Haddington Place, both in this Parish Relict of the late John Taylor sometime Clerk at the Sugarhouse Leith have been three times proclaimed in order to Marriage in the Parish Church of St Cuthberts and no Objections have been Offered.
Married on the Sixteenth day of June Current, by the Reverend Doctor David Dickson, one of the Ministers of this Parish." ²

Robert next married Margaret WHITSON, daughter of James WHITSON and Margaret GRIEVE, on 15 September 1837 in Innerleithen parish, Peeblesshire, Scotland.¹ (Margaret WHITSON was baptised on 7 September 1806 in Peebles, Peebleshire, Scotland ¹ and died on 10 February 1880 in Essex, Ontario, Canada ⁷.)