Person:Alexander Spalding (2)

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Alexander Spalding
d.6 Dec 1861
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Name Alexander Spalding
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1790 St. Martins, Perthshire, Scotland
Marriage 25 Oct 1824 St. Martins, Perthshire, Scotlandto Jean Wallace
Death? 6 Dec 1861
Burial? Wisbeach, Lambton, Ontario, Canada

Alexander Spalding was a saw miller in St. Martins, Perthshire Scotland. He and his wife Jean Wallace had ten children there. About 1850 the family emigrated to Canada with the Wallace and Robertson families, settling land around Wisbeach, Warwick Township, Lambton County.

References
  1.   Scotland. Census Office. Census returns for St. Martins (parish 393), 1841-1891
    Enumeration district 5, page 5, 1941.

    Located at Saw Mill, Alexander Spalding is a saw miller, aged 45, born in county. He is with wife Jane, and 9 children.

  2.   Church of Scotland. Parish Church of St. Martins. Old parochial registers for St. Martins, 1686-1856. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979).

    Alexander Spalding is listed ten times (1 marriage, 9 births) with Jane (or Jean) Wallace, his spouse. Often it is specified that they're at Friarton or Lintmill at Friarton

  3.   Canada. 1861 Census of Canada. (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada).

    Alexander Spalding, age 69, born Scotland, living in a frame house 1 1/2 stories, in Lambton County, Ontario. With him is wife Jane, sons Alex and John, daughters Elizabeth and Isabella. Margaret McAuley, a resident of St. Clair U.S who also appears in the household, may be a daughter

  4.   Tombstone inscription.

    Alex Spalding/ Died Dec 6, 1861/ age 70 yrs/ also his wife/ Jean Wallace/ died April 15, 1876/ from St. Martins Perthshire Scotland