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HAIMES, George Hairdresser, DNA Linked
(About 1806-)
TAIT, Helen (DNA Linked)
(1800-008/1869)
PENMAN, William
(About 1813-)
WILSON, Helen
(About 1815-)
HAIMES, Alexander Shoemaker
(About 1836-)
PENMAN, Mary
(1838-1931)
HAIMES, Helen
(1871-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ADAMS, James

HAIMES, Helen 1 2

  • Born: 26 May 1871, Edinburgh, Scotland 2 3
  • Marriage (1): ADAMS, James on 29 August 1892 in 27 South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland 1

   Other names for Helen were ADAMS, Ellen 4 and HAIMES, Ellen.3

  General Notes:

In 1891 the census found Alexander Haimes, head of the household, aged 53 years and born in Haddington, living at 39 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, with his wife Mary, his two children, George and Ellen, and his two nieces, Mary and Rebecca. Ellen was the younger of Alexander's two children. She was 19 years old and had been born in Edinburgh. She worked as a hat trimmer.

The 1901 census for Leith recorded Ellen Adams, a wife with a daughter, though her husband is not named in the entry, living at 13 Henderson Street with her mother Mary Haims and a cousin "Jane" Nisbet. Ellen was a dressmaker who worked on her own account at home. She was 29 years old and had been born in Edinburgh. Her daughter Mary was 3 years old and had been born in Leith. Mary Haims was 62 years old and born in Edinburgh. Both Mary and Ellen were recorded as married. "Jane" Nisbet, as the entry has it, was probably Ina Nisbet -Isabella Sandilands Nisbet- daughter of Isabella Haimes and Alexander Nisbet. Ina married from this address in 1902. 3 4


Helen married James ADAMS, son of Daniel ADAMS Joiner and Agnes MUIRHEAD, on 29 August 1892 in 27 South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.1 (James ADAMS was born on 17 January 1867 in Edinburgh, Scotland 1 2.)


  Marriage Notes:

The marriage took place according to the forms of the Free Church of Scotland. John M. Allan was the minister. The witnesses were J. Morrison Love and Maggie Adams.

James Adams, of 17 Parkside Street, Edinburgh, was a bachelor aged 25 years. He worked as a Pawnbroker's Manager.

Helen Haimes was 21 years of age and lived at 39 Niddry Street, Edinburgh. She was unmarried and no employment was noted for her.

The parents of the couple were all recorded as living.

The marriage was registered at Edinburgh on 31 August 1892. 1

Sources


1 GRO Scotland, Canongate Edinburgh marriages 1892.

2 LDS Family Search, IGI.

3 1891 UK Census, Canongate Edinburgh.

4 1901 UK Census, Leith South, Midlothian; ED: 34; Page: 41.

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