IGI listed as father of Cuthbert in Christening record St. Andrew's Parish Reg
and Nonconf.
Sheriff of Berwickshire, 1755; Solicitor for the Stamp Duties; admitted an Advocate, 1737; succeeded to Baronetcy, third Bar of Allanbank, 19 May 1753; Listed as first son and heir;
There is confusion as to whether this is our Frances who married the James Spens, or another Frances.
Advocate, Poet:
Age 19 in 1861 Census of Govan, Glasgow, apprentice clerk, born Glasgow; 1870 marriage record in the District of St. Andrew, in Burgh of Edinburgh;
Age 39 in 1881 Census, Denton Cottage, Govan, Lanark, Scotland, advocate, Sheriff substitute of Larnarkshire; Death in general index, age 58, entry # 475, St. Andrew Edinburgh, 685/2; Author of Dreams and Realities; Poems, Edin., 1863, fp.8v0. See Lon. Reader, 1863, i. Darroll, and other Poems, Edin., 1882, cr. 8vo. With Younger, Robert T., advocate, Employers and Employed: being 1) an Exposition of the Law of Reparation for Physical Injury; 2) the Employer's Liability Act, 1880, Annotated with Special Reference to Decision in England and Scotland; and 3) Suggested Ammendments of the Law as to the Liability of Employers, Edin., 1887, p. 8vo.;
Age 21 on marriage record, 1870, St. Andrews Parish, Edinburgh
age 31 in 1881 Census, Govan, Lanark, Scotland
Widow in 1901 Census Age 51,born Midlothian, Edinburgh
Death recorded Fm 300,396; 1873 Scotland Death index fm #103419 Entry 256, age one year;
age 6 in 1881 Census, Govan, Lanark, Scotland; birth index born 1875;
Birth recorded in St. Andrews, Edinbough, Scotland and in Hamilton near Glasgow; Scottish Birth records, Registry House;
death in Scottish Records, 1880, Partick same year as birth.
birth record from Scottish Records Office, Registry House, Edinburgh
Birth also registered in Partick;
!child died in 1884 in Partick, Death recorded at Registry House 646/3 362 in Partick;
Law Clerk;
1911 confirmations and Inventories, 8 Drummond Place, Edinburgh, appointed
brother Patrick as executor of will; Spens Family Tree gives birth as 1896 but would be more likely 1886;
Age 14 in 1901 Census, scholar, born Lanarkshire, Glasgow
Death record at Scottish Archives 685/2 285 St. Andrews, Edinburg age 25;
Age 13 in 1901 Census, scholar, born Lanarkshire, Glasgow
Death in General Registry, 168/2 #582 Aberdeen South District;
listed as Bilton's father on marriage record;Gun-maker
Birth record 25 1847 Mar Quarter New-ctle Tyne. XXV 387 was for Jane dau of
John Davison and Isabella Percy of Dents Hole, Byker; 1871 Census, Newcastle
Jane Spens, Widow had a grand dau age 2 Mary Jane Brown, living in her home,
this child is thought to be Jane's daughter's child;
Listed in 1871 Census living with Jane Spens age 2 years; Birth certificate
1868 June Q. Gateshead 10a 768.
Age 69 at time of marriage to Joana Spens, age 37!marriage record gives John as a widower, parents as Richard MacKenzie, writer to the Signet, deceased, and Jane Hamilton, deceased; James Spens and Bethia Spens as witnesses; surname also given as McKinny
Age 17 in 1861 Census of Govan, born Glasgow; Batch #C119757 Source call
#994183, 994183; there were notes suggesting a Joanna died in 1927 but was born about 1853...
Age 15 in 1861 Census of Govan, born Glasgow, listed as William G., cl
(clerk); Life Insurance President, Confirmations and Inventories, 1917, wife
listed as executor, address given as 44 Albany Street, Edinburgh; Marriages of District of St. Andrew, Edinburgh, 1870, p. 43; age 35 in 1881 Census, Govan, Lanark, Scotland, occ: Sec Scottish Aicable Life Assurance Soc., with wife, Mary C., six childen and five servants.
Death 1916 685/2 436 St. Andrews, Edinburgh; will recorded in court book 10 May 1917;
Mary Catherine Borthwick Honorable
daughter of Archibald Borthwick, 18th Lord, and Mary Louisa Home Borthwick.
Mother died 2 Feb 1928; dau of the 15th Lord Borthwick according to WD Spens.
Extracted birth records C116853 6035516 Register; IGI 3 Oct 1994, age 6 in 1881 Census;
age 4 in 1881 Census;
!Scottish Birth records, Registry House, St. Andrew, Edinburgh;
birth record from Scottish Records Office, Registry House, Edinburgh
Death in General Registry, 734 #11, St.Andrews, Edinburgh