James McKnight or MacKnight, 18101878 (aged 68 years)

Name
James /McKnight or MacKnight/
Given names
James
Surname
McKnight or MacKnight
Birth
Note: Date from grave marker in St. Cuthbert's Cemetery Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation
Writer to the Signet
Note: Writer to the Signet in British. (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs. writer. Collins English Dictionary.
Birth of a brother
Text:
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Name: Alexander Edward MacKnight
Birth Date: 23 Jul 1817
Birth Place: City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Death Date: 8 Jun 1899
Death Place: City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Cemetery: Saint Cuthbert's Churchyard
Burial or Cremation Place: Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Has Bio?: Y
Father: Thomas MacKnight
Mother: Christian Crawfurd MacKnight

Birth of a brother
Death of a father
Text:

Rev Thomas MacKnight
Birth
13 Aug 1762
City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Death
21 Jan 1836 (aged 73)
City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Burial
Saint Cuthbert's Churchyard
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland

Marriage of a parent
Text:

From Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910
Name Robert Hamilton
Spouse's Name Christina Crawfurd Macknight
Event Date 13 Jul 1840
Event Place Edinburgh Parish,Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland
Spouse's Father's Name Thomas Macknight

Marriage
Text:

Name: James Macknight
Spouse's Name: Helen Pearson
Event Date: 28 Apr 1842
Event Place: Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Birth of a son
Text:

Thomas Macknight Macknight
Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name: Thomas Macknight Macknight
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 12 Aug 1843
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Birth Date: 08 Jun 1843
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Christening of a son
Text:

Thomas Macknight Macknight
Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name: Thomas Macknight Macknight
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 12 Aug 1843
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Birth of a daughter
Text:

Name: Helen Littlejohn Macknight
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 28 Apr 1845
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Christening of a daughter
Birth of a son
Text:

Name: Hugh Pearson Macknight
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 14 Dec 1846
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Birth of a daughter
Text:

Name: Christian Crawfurd Macknight
Gender: Female
Baptism Date: 8 Jul 1851
Baptism Place: Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Father: James Macknight
Mother: Helen Pearson
FHL Film Number: 1066693

Christening of a daughter
Birth of a daughter
Text:

Elizabeth Jane Macknight
Scotland Census, 1861
Name: Elizabeth Jane Macknight
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1861
Gender: Female
Age: 8
Birthplace: Midlothian
Registration District: St George
County: Midlothian
Birth Year (Estimated): 1853

Christening of a daughter
Text:

Elizabeth Jane Macknight
Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name: Elizabeth Jane Macknight
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 23 Sep 1853
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Birth of a daughter
Christening of a daughter
Text:

Agnes Katherine Mary Pearson Macknight
Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name: Agnes Katherine Mary Pearson Macknight
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 20 Jul 1854
Christening Place: EDINBURGH PARISH, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
Birth Date: 17 May 1854
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Marriage of a son
Text:

Thomas M Macknight
New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940
Name: Thomas M Macknight
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 05 Feb 1885
Event Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Birth Year (Estimated): 1843
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson
Spouse's Name: Margaret E Sims
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 24
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1861
Spouse's Father's Name: Ceicero Sims
Spouse's Mother's Name: Josephine Darby

Note: There is a Newspaper notice in Dundee Scotland to the effect that a Thomas MacKnight MacKnight married Lillias Jessie Bryden of Kirkaldy, Scotland on 5 Dec 1871.
Birth of a son
about 1855 (aged 44 years)
Birth of a son
Death of a mother
Text:

Name: Christian Crawfurd MacKnight MacKnight
Maiden Name: MacKnight
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1862
Event Place: Edinburgh, , City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph Included: N
Birth Date: 31 Jul 1780

Birth of a daughter
Text:

Name: Macknight
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 14 Dec 1863
Birthplace: EDINBURGH PARISH,EDINBURGH,MIDLOTHIAN,SCOTLAND
Father's Name: James Macknight
Mother's Name: Helen Pearson

Death of a brother
Text:

Name: Charles Hamilton Macknight
Event Type: Burial
Event Place: Port Fairy, Moyne Shire, Victoria, Australia
Cemetery:

Death Date: 9 MAr 1873

Death of a daughter
Source: Find a Grave
Text:

Elizabeth Jane MacKnight
Find A Grave Index
Name: Elizabeth Jane MacKnight
Event Type: Burial
Event Date: 1873
Event Place: Edinburgh, , City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph Included: N
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1852
Death Date: 10 Apr 1873
Affiliate Record Identifier: 157239696
Cemetery: Saint Cuthbert's Churchyard

Note: According to St. Cuthbert's Graveyard inscription Elizabeth Jane "died at the Bridge of Allan"
Death of a son
Cause: Drowned in the Brisbane River
Burial of a mother
Address: Edinburgh,City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Death
November 6, 1878 (aged 68 years) Age: 68
Note: JAMES MACKNIGHT, third son, born 8th October 1759, died 17th November 1793.

JAMES MACKNIGHT, third son, born 8th October 1759, died 17th November 1793.
SAMUEL MACKNIGHT, W.S., second son of Dr. Macknight, was born on the 23rd of January 1757, and died on the 24th August 1807
ELIZABETH McCORMACK, widow of Dr. Macknight, died 1813, in her 85th year; also to the memory of their first son,
THOMAS MACKNIGHT, D.D., one of the ministers of the Old Church, Edinburgh, who died 21st January 1836.
On Marble Tablet at Foot of Above:
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. CHRISTIAN CRAWFURD MACKNIGHT, widow of the above Thomas Macknight, born 31st July 1780, died 29th January 1862.
Oval Marble Tablet on Same Wall:
In memory of HUGH PEARSON MACKNIGHT, who was drowned in the Brisbane River, Queensland, on the 2nd May 1875, aged 27 years; also of
JAMES WILLIAM MACKNIGHT, who died at Roma, Queensland, on the 19th December 1883, aged 26 years.
Marble Cross in front of above on Ground:
Sacred to the memory of ELIZABETH JANE MACKNIGHT, who died at the Bridge of Allan 10th August 1873, aged 20 years.
Gothic Sarcophagus in front of Enclosure.
Sacred to the memory of JAMES MACKNIGHT, Writer to the Signet, who departed this life 6th November 1878, aged 68 years; also his wife,
HELEN PEARSON, who departed this life 9th March 1896, aged 74 years.

LDS spouse sealing
November 13, 1995 (117 years after death)
Temple: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
LDS baptism
January 5, 2019 (140 years after death)
Temple: Portland, Oregon, United States
LDS endowment
February 20, 2019 (140 years after death)
Temple: Portland, Oregon, United States
LDS child sealing
March 14, 2019 (140 years after death)
Temple: Portland, Oregon, United States
Family with parents
father
17621836
Birth: August 13, 1762Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: January 21, 1836Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
mother
17801862
Birth: July 31, 1780 50 31 Irvine, Ayershire, Scotland
Death: January 29, 1862Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Marriage MarriageApril 8, 1808Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland
3 years
himself
18101878
Birth: September 23, 1810 48 30 Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: November 6, 1878Scotland
7 years
younger brother
18171899
Birth: July 23, 1817 54 36 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: June 8, 1899Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
3 years
younger brother
18191873
Birth: 1819 56 38 City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Death: March 9, 1873Dunmore, Victoria, Australia
Mother’s family with Robert Hamilton
stepfather
mother
17801862
Birth: July 31, 1780 50 31 Irvine, Ayershire, Scotland
Death: January 29, 1862Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Marriage MarriageJuly 13, 1840Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Family with Helen Pearson
himself
18101878
Birth: September 23, 1810 48 30 Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: November 6, 1878Scotland
wife
18211896
Birth: June 12, 1821 25 25 Ratho, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: March 9, 1896Scotland
Marriage MarriageApril 28, 1842Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
14 months
son
18431899
Birth: June 8, 1843 32 21 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: June 10, 1899Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
21 months
daughter
1845
Birth: March 13, 1845 34 23 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
21 months
son
18461875
Birth: December 14, 1846 36 25 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: May 2, 1875Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
5 years
daughter
1851
Birth: June 3, 1851 40 29 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
18 months
daughter
18521873
Birth: November 10, 1852 42 31 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: April 10, 1873Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
2 years
daughter
1854
Birth: 1854 43 32 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
2 years
son
18551900
Birth: about 1855 44 33
Death: November 16, 1900Manhattan, New York, New York, USA
3 years
son
18571883
Birth: July 2, 1857 46 36 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death: December 19, 1883Roma, Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia
7 years
daughter
1863
Birth: December 14, 1863 53 42 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Marriage
Text:

Name: James Macknight
Spouse's Name: Helen Pearson
Event Date: 28 Apr 1842
Event Place: Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Death
Birth

Date from grave marker in St. Cuthbert's Cemetery Edinburgh, Scotland

Occupation

Writer to the Signet in British. (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs. writer. Collins English Dictionary.

Death

JAMES MACKNIGHT, third son, born 8th October 1759, died 17th November 1793.
SAMUEL MACKNIGHT, W.S., second son of Dr. Macknight, was born on the 23rd of January 1757, and died on the 24th August 1807
ELIZABETH McCORMACK, widow of Dr. Macknight, died 1813, in her 85th year; also to the memory of their first son,
THOMAS MACKNIGHT, D.D., one of the ministers of the Old Church, Edinburgh, who died 21st January 1836.
On Marble Tablet at Foot of Above:
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. CHRISTIAN CRAWFURD MACKNIGHT, widow of the above Thomas Macknight, born 31st July 1780, died 29th January 1862.
Oval Marble Tablet on Same Wall:
In memory of HUGH PEARSON MACKNIGHT, who was drowned in the Brisbane River, Queensland, on the 2nd May 1875, aged 27 years; also of
JAMES WILLIAM MACKNIGHT, who died at Roma, Queensland, on the 19th December 1883, aged 26 years.
Marble Cross in front of above on Ground:
Sacred to the memory of ELIZABETH JANE MACKNIGHT, who died at the Bridge of Allan 10th August 1873, aged 20 years.
Gothic Sarcophagus in front of Enclosure.
Sacred to the memory of JAMES MACKNIGHT, Writer to the Signet, who departed this life 6th November 1878, aged 68 years; also his wife,
HELEN PEARSON, who departed this life 9th March 1896, aged 74 years.