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JACK, John
(1726-)
MITCHEL, Marion
(1731-)
GRIEVE, James
(About 1703-)
SEMPLE, Helen
(1706-)
JACK, John
(1749-)
GRIEVE, Helen
(1745-)
JACK, George
(1780-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. MELVIN, Elizabeth

JACK, George 1 2

  • Born: 5 January 1780, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 2
  • Baptised: 25 January 1780, Bristo Associate Congregation, Edinburgh, Scotland 1 2
  • Marriage (1): MELVIN, Elizabeth

  General Notes:

In the death certificate of his daughter, Ann, in 1872, George Jack was recorded as a cabinet maker. He was deceased then.

In 1826 the Old Parish Registers Index shows a marriage:
JACK GEORGE S JANE CONNACHER/
08/01/1826
349/ 20 130
Dunkeld

JACK GEORGE STEWART JANE CONACHER/FR696 (FR696)
10/01/1826
685/2 410 78
St Cuthbert's Edinburgh
which may be this man. They had a daughter in 1832:
JACK JANE PROUDFOOT
GEORGE STEWART/JACK JANE CONACHER FR7289 (FR7289)
F
09/11/1832
685/3 270 92
Canongate

JACK JANE PROUDFOOT
GEORGE STEWART/JACK JANE CONACHER FR620CH2V35 (FR620)
F
19/11/1832
685/C 10 0
Canongate Scroll Reg.

JACK JANE PROUDFOOT
GEORGE STEWART/JACK JANE CONACHER FR620CH2V35 (FR620)
F
19/11/1832
685/3 270 92
Canongate
In 1851 a possible entry (Census 1851 691/00 007/00 008)
for Elizabeth Winton (born 1844 Edinburgh), the daughter of Robert Winton and Helen Webster, shows Elie Winton aged 8 years living in the household of Jane Jack, aged 48 years born Dunkeld, and her daughter Jane P. Jack, aged 17 years born Edinburgh. George Jack's sister Catherine was the mother of Helen Webster.
These documents have not been fully checked but should be considered a likely area for research.
3 4

  Research Notes:

www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc12384.pdf
Inventory Acc.12384 James Thin, Booksellers
From pages 234-285 Associate Congregation, Seceders Meeting House, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division
E-mail: manuscripts@nls.uk
© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
With thanks for this single use.

Associate Congregation, Seceders Meeting House, Edinburgh
Minutes, membership list, accounts, notes and legal papers,
Associate Congregation of Edinburgh, Seceders Meeting House or New Church, Bristo Street, Edinburgh, Adam Gib (1714-1788), Antiburgher minister, 1741-1753, 1798 and 1828 (52 items)

During the course of the 18th century, there were various secession movements from the Established Church of Scotland. The most significant of these in 1733 an evangelical split constituted themselves a presbytery, subsequently known as the "Associate Presbytery" or Secession Church.

The Secession Church in Edinburgh bought land to build meeting house or church in April 1741. As the Secession Church was not a legal body it could not buy land, so the property was made out in the names of James Wilson, smith, burgess of Edinburgh and James Bain of Bainfield (Bayne, Bean).

By 1745 the Secession Church had broken up into three presbyteries and became known as the "Associate Synod." In 1747 the Secession Church split over taking Burgess oaths, creating two sections: the burghers and the anti-burghers. The anti-burghers became known as the General Associate Synod (Anti-Burghers), as distinct from the Associate Synod (Burghers). Adam Gib was the principal leader of the anti-burghers and he encountered many legal disputes from adherents of the Church of Scotland and the burgher secessionists.

See also National Archives of Scotland ref: CS271/53849


George married Elizabeth MELVIN. (Elizabeth MELVIN was born about 1785.)


  Marriage Notes:

No record of a marriage between this couple has been found as yet. 1

Sources


1 LDS Family Search, IGI.

2 ancestry.co.uk, Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950.

3 GRO Scotland, Deaths Inveresk with Musselburgh 689 no 129 1872.

4 GRO Scotland, Old Parish Registers.

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