1. | George SILVER was born on 30 Mar 1841 in Wetshaw, Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK (son of John SILVER and Elizabeth ROBERTSON); died on 30 Mar 1886 in Bucklerburn, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Other Events and Attributes:
- Occupation: Paper Mill Worker
- Census: 1851, Slach Of Westshaw, Maryculter, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK
- Census: 1881, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
- Will: 1886, Bucklerburn, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
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Birth:
From Vol 3, register of births and baptism in the parish of Maryculter
Silver, George, lawful son of John Silver and Elizabeth Robertson in Wetshaw born 30/03/1841 and baptised 21/04/1841. Witnesses Joseph Middleton Wetshaw and John Silver Crossley.
Census:
1881 Census for Buckler Burn, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland
George SILVER M 40 M Maryculter, Kincardine, Scotland Rel: Head Occ: Paper Mill Worker
Hellen SILVER M 30 F Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland Rel: Wife Occ: Paper Mill Workers Wife*
George SILVER 11 M Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar
Alice Edmund SILVER 8 F Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland Rel: Dau Occ: Scholar
Alexander Edmund SILVER 6 M Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland Rel: Son Occ: Scholar
Alexander MILNE U 23 M Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland Rel: Lodger Occ: Lab
*Second wife whom he married after first wife died in 1879.
Will:
Extract Inventory of the Personal Estate of GEORGE SILVER (Deceased)
At Aberdeen - the twelfth day of June in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Six. In presence of John Guthrie Smith Esquire, Advocate, Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff. Compeared James Paull, Advocate in Aberdeen and gave in the Inventory of the Personal Estate of the after-designed now deceased George Silver and oath thereon under written and craved that the same might be insert and registered in the Sheriff Court Books of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff, at Aberdeen, in terms of the Act of Parliament passed in the forty eighth year of the reign of His Majesty George the Third, chapter one hundred and forty nine, entituled "An Act for repealing the Stamp Duties on Deeds, Law Proceedings, and other written or printed Instruments and the Duties on Legacies, and Succession to Personal Estate upon Intestacies now payable in Great Britain; and for granting new duties in lieu thereof" and subsequent Acts; which request Sheriff foresaid found reasonable and ordained the same to be done accordingly and of which Inventory (the principal being written on paper and stamped according to law) the tenor follows namely:-
Inventory of the Personal Estate, wheresoever situated of George Silver, Papermill Worker, who residing at Bucklerburn in the Parish of Peterculter, and County of Aberdeen, who died at Bucklerburn on the 30th day of March 1886
1. Cash in the house ?0 / 5s / 0d
2. Household Furniture and other Effects in the deceased's house ?18 / 17s / 0d
3. Stock in Trade and other Effects belonging to deceased 0
4. Sum in Bank viz - On Deposit Receipt with the Town and County
Bank Limited Dated 10th October 1885 ?50 / 0s / 0d
Amount of Estate ?69 / 12s / 0d
Signed: Hellen Silver and G B Michie SCD
At Aberdeen the twelfth day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Six. In presence of George Bennet Michie - Sheriff Clerk Depute of Aberdeenshire.
Appeared Hellen Gordon or Silver, residing at Bucklerburn, in the Parish of Peterculter and County of Aberdeen - who being solemnly sworn and examined, Deponses : That the said George Silver died at Bucklerburn upon the Thirtieth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Six and had at the time of his death his ordinary or principal domicile in the County of Aberdeen; That the Deponent is the Widow of the said deceased George Silver and is desirous to enter upon the possession and management of the deceased's estate as his executrise. That the Deponent does not know of any testamentary settlement or writing relative to the disposal of the deceased's Personal Estate or Effects, or any part thereof: That the foregoing Inventory signed by the Deponent and the said Sheriff Clerk Depute as relative hereto is a full and complete Inventory of the Personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased George Silver wheresoever situated, and belonging to him beneficially at the time of his death, in so far as the same has come to the Deponent's knowledge: That the said deceased had no heritable estate in this country. That the value at this date of the said Personal Estate and Effects, including the proceeds secured thereon down to this date, does not exceed Three Hundred Pounds Sterling: That confirmation of the said Personal Estate in Scotland in favour of the Deponent. All which is truth, as the Deponent shall answer to God.
Signed: Hellen Silver and G B Michie SCD
Extracted on this and the two preceding pages by me, Sheriff Clerk Depute of Aberdeenshire - G B Michie.
Died:
1886 Deaths in the Parish of Peterculter in the County of Aberdeen
No 8 George Silver Paper Mill Worker Married to Hellen Gordon (certificate actually has him married to his mother, Elizabeth Robertson. Hellen was second wife, first was Mary Smith who died in 1879) 1886 March Thirtieth 6am at Bucklerburn, Peterculter
Male 45 years Father: John Silver Crofter (deceased) Mother: Elizabeth Silver M.S. Robertson (deceased) Cause: Typhoid Fever as certified by Alex. T. Arthur
Witness: Widdow Milne Sister West Mulloch, Drum (His sister Jane/Jean who was married to first James Bisset and second to Alexander Milne)
George married Mary SMITH on 21 Dec 1866 in Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Mary was born on 19 Apr 1847 in Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; died on 26 Jan 1879 in Bucklerburn, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Married:
Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910
Name: George Silver Gender: Male Marriage Date: 21 Dec 1866 Marriage Place: Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland Spouse: Mary Smith FHL Film Number: 6035516
1866 marriages in the parish of Peterculter in the county of Aberdeen.
No 7, 1866 on the twenty first day of December, at Mossbrodie, Peterculter. George Silver, mill worker, bachelor, aged 25, of Kennerty, Peterculter, son of John Silver, agricultural labourer and Elizabeth Silver, M.S.Robertson, deceased and Mary Smith, spinster, aged 19, of Mossbrodie, Peterculter, dau of James Smith, farmer and Jean Smith, M.S. Collie. Witnesses: William Spring and James Smith.
Children:
- Jane SILVER was born on 2 Oct 1867 in Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; died in Jul 1956 in Midhurst, Sussex, England, UK.
- George SILVER was born on 7 Oct 1869 in Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; died on 17 Aug 1916 in Culter Mills, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; was buried on 21 Aug 1916 in Peterculter Churchyard, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
- Alice Edmond SILVER was born on 2 Apr 1873 in Peterculter, Scotland, UK; died on 2 May 1905 in Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
- Alexander Edmond SILVER was born on 3 Feb 1875 in Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; died on 7 Jul 1931 in Main St, Dawson's Buildings, Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK.
George married Helen GORDON on 18 Feb 1881 in Bucklerburn, Peterculter, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Helen was born on 22 Sep 1850 in Fetteresso, Kincardine, Scotland, UK; died on 5 Jul 1902 in 22 Wallfield Crescent, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Married:
1881 Marriage in the Parish of Peterculter in the County of Aberdeen No 3
1881 on the Eighteenth day of February at Bucklerburn Parish of Peterculter after Banns according to the Forms of the Established Church of Scotland (Signed) George Silver Paper Mill Worker (widower) Age 39 of Bucklerburn, Parish of Peterculter Father: John Silver Farmer Mother: Elizabeth Silver M.S. Robertson (Deceased)
AND (Signed) Hellen Gordon Domestic Servant (Spinster) Age 30 of Bucklerburn, Parish of Peterculter Father: John Gordon Retired Farmer Mother: Ann Gordon M.S. Christie
Witnesses: Jas. Dalgarno, Min Free Church, Peterculter, Robert Maver, Alexander Milne
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