Birth: 2 January 1847 Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: Robert Edgar 1824-1903
Mother: Mary Taylor 1824-1904
Christening: 2 January 1847 Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Marriage: 30 November 1866 Ayton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Jane Nisbet 1842-1902
Death: 8:40am 7 March 1924 Leetside, Whitsome, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Robert Edgar 1866-1944
Mary Waite Edgar [Purves] 1868-1949
Isabella Edgar 1869-1a1891
Agnes Edgar 1873-a1901
Georgina Edgar c1875-a1891
Robina Edgar 1877-a1901
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for James Taylor Edgar born 2 January 1847 in Ayton, Berwick, parents Robert Edgar and Mary Taylor.
Entry in Scotlands People Old Parish Records for James Taylor Edgar on 2 January 1847 in Ayton (727/ 30 118), parents Robert Edgar and Mary Taylor. "[Page] 115 1847 [...] Edgar James Taylor Edgar lawful son of Robert Edgar, labourer, residing in Ayton and Mary Taylor his spouse was born on Jany 2nd 1847 and baptized. "
In the 1851 census as James Edgar aged 4, born in Ayton, Berwickshire, and living with his parents (Robert and Mary), sister (Isabella) and a servant (Barbara Shade aged 23 and born in N Linton, Peebles) in Swinton, Berwickshire.
In the 1861 census as James Edgar aged 14, born in Ayton, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer, and living with his parents (Robert and Mary), and four brothers (Alexander, Robert, Thomas and William) in a farm cottage in Edrom, Berwickshire.
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910 for James Edgar and Jane Nisbet on 30 November 1866 in Ayton, Berwick.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for James Edgar and Janr Nisbet in 1866 in Ayton ((727/ 12). " Page 6 1866 Marriages in the Parish of Ayton in the County of Berwick [...] [No.] 12 1866 On the thirtieth day of November at Ayton After Banns according to the Forms of the U[nited] P[resbyterian] Church (Signed) James Edgar Laborer Single [aged] 21 [of] Sunnyside [parents] Robert Edgar ? [and] Mary Edgar M.S.Taylor, [and] Jane Nisbet Single [aged] 25 [of] Sunnyside [parents] Robert Nisbet ? [and] Mary Nisbet M. S. Waite (deceased) [...] signed Robert Nisbet Witness Robina Nisbet Witness." The two male employments of the fathers are illegible
His daughter was born on 17 May 1868 at Greenburn, Coldingham, and another on 6 December 1869 in Whitsome in 1870.
In the 1871 census as James Edgar aged 25, born in Ayton, Berwickshire, an agricultural labourer (Royhouse steward) and living with his wife (Jane), son (Robert) and two daughters (Elizabeth (sic - Isabella?) and Mary) in Jardinefield, Whitsome, Berwickshire.
His daughters were born in Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland in 1873 and 1875, and in Eyemouth in 1878.
In the 1881 census as James Edger (sic) aged 34, born in Ayton, Berwickshire, and living with his wife (Jane), son (Robert) and five daughters (Agnes, Georgeina, Mary, Isabella and Robina) at Farm Cottage (Walterstead), Ladykirk, Berwickshire.
In the 1891 census as James Edgar aged 45, a farm steward, and living with his wife (Jane), and three daughters (Georgina, Mary and Robina) at 1 Woodend Cottage, Coldingham, Berwickshire.
In the 1901 census as Jas Edgar aged 54, born in Ayton, Berwickshire, a farm worker hedger, and living with his wife (Jane) and three daughters (Agnes, Robina and Jemina (sic - granddaughter, illigitimate daughter of Mary Waite)) at Darchester Cottage, Ayton, Berwickshire.
He was the informant and present at the death of his wife at 11:30am on 25 September 1902 in Coldstream.
In the 1911 census as James Edgar aged 62, born in Ayton, Berwick, widowed, a farm labourer, and living in two rooms with windows at Simprim Farm, Swinton, Berwick.
In the 1921 census as James Edgar aged 74 years 5 months, born in Ayton, Berwick, widowed, a retired hedger working for Robert Sloan farmer Horndean, no dependent children, and living in two rooms in Whitsome, Berwick. His son Robert was living two doors away.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for James Edgar, mother's maiden name Taylor, in 1924 in Whitsome (757/ 1). "Page 1 1924 Deaths in the Parish of Whitsome in the County of Berwick. [No.] 1 James Edgar Retired Farm Steward Widower of Jane Nisbet 1924 March Seventh 8 h. 40 m. AM [at] Leetside, Whitsome [aged 77 years [parents] Robert Edgar Farm Servant (deceased) [and] Mary Edgar M. S. Taylor (deceased) [of] Pneumonia Cardio Failure [informant] Robert Edgar Son (Present) [on] 1924 7th March At Whitsome".
There are thirty entries in Ancestry Family Trees for James Taylor Edgar.
James Taylor Edgar was the father of Mary Waite Edgar, the wife of John Purves, uncle of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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