Alexander Gillies Neilson

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• _UID: 0538FAD54534489A9C428D83B054DD0C42D4
• Residence: 1901, 10 Thornton
• Occupation: 5 Jun 1936; coal miner
• Residence: 5 Jun 1936, 58 Lanrigg Road, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 6 Feb 1943; Coal Miner
• Occupation: 4 Aug 1944, Colliery Fireman
• Residence: 4 Aug 1944, 92 Barton Terrace, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 30 Aug 1956; colliery pumper
• Residence: 30 Aug 1956, 92 Barton Terrace, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland

Notes:

The informant of the death of Peter Neilson was his son Alexander Neilson

Informant on the death of Jessie Bathgate was her husband Alexander Neilson

The informant on the death of Alexander Neilson was James Neilson, brother

Alexander married Jessie Isabella Bathgate on 5 Jun 1936 in 14 Westhill Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. Jessie (daughter of James Bathgate and Bessie Davidson) was born on 18 Jan 1904 in Tarhill, Forgandenny, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 6 Feb 1943 in Longmore Hospital, Edinburgh, Mid Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Agnes Thomson Hamilton on 4 Aug 1944 in Limefield Church, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland. Agnes (daughter of Living and Living) was born about 1920; died after 1956. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
A witness at the wedding of Alexander Neilson and Agnes Hamilton was Peter Neilson, (probably the brother of Alexander) residing at 58 Carries Rd. Fauldhouse

1. Living

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• _UID: FA47B74C710947BCBA6DF9F4AB57F8BD8C7B
• Residence: 1881, 54 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1891; Coal Miner
• Residence: 1891, Garret Row, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 28 Mar 1894; coal miner
• Residence: 28 Mar 1894, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 20 Aug 1894; coal miner
• Occupation: 1901; coal miner hewer
• Residence: 1901, 10 Thornton
• Occupation: 11 Nov 1903; coal miner
• Occupation: 23 Aug 1908; coal miner
• Occupation: 31 Mar 1922; coal miner
• Occupation: 25 Sep 1931; coalminer
• Occupation: 5 Jun 1936; coal miner (deceased)
• Occupation: 11 Mar 1972; coal miner, deceased

Notes:

Informant on the death of Archibald Neilson was Peter Neilson, son

Informant on the death of Mary Aitken was her son, Peter Neilson.

The informant on the death of Elizabeth Gillies was her husband Peter Neilson

The informant of the death of Peter Neilson was his son Alexander Neilson

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Death Cert, Cit. Date: 4 Mar 2020.
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Peter married Elizabeth Gillies on 28 Mar 1894 in East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Alexander Gillies and Elizabeth McArthur) was born about 1875 in Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland; died on 2 Sep 1930 in Garret Row, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: DBA0DC9AB653490CBFA4AF6E7A6F9BDE3146
• Residence: 1881, 165 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Woodmuir High Row, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 28 Mar 1894; Domestic Servant
• Residence: 28 Mar 1894, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1901, 10 Thornton

Notes:

Name: Elizabeth Gillies
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 26 Apr 1874
Birth Place: Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland
Father: Alexander Gillies
Mother: Elizabeth McArthur
FHL Film Number: 6035516

The informant on the death of Elizabeth Gillies was her husband Peter Neilson

(Research):Informant on the death of Elizabeth Gillies was her husband, Peter Neilson

Notes:

Married:
Witnesses at the marriage of Peter Neilson and Elizabeth Gillies were Sarah Hardie and Archibald Neilson

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• _UID: CDEBCEE884684EA1AD4267E7AB3568D7A513
• Occupation: 27 Apr 1866; Coal Miner
• Occupation: 28 Jun 1869; coal miner
• Occupation: 1871; shale miner
• Residence: 1871, Raeburn Row, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 28 May 1871; shale miner
• Occupation: 29 Oct 1872; shale miner
• Occupation: 1881; coal miner
• Residence: 1881, 54 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 13 Aug 1881; coal miner
• Occupation: 1891; coal miner
• Residence: 1891, Garret Row, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 28 Mar 1894; coal miner
• Residence: 4 Aug 1895, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 13 Oct 1899; Coal Miner (deceased)
• Occupation: 6 Jun 1902; Coal Miner (deceased)
• Occupation: 11 Dec 1969; coal miner, deceased

Notes:

Informant on the death of Archibald Neilson was Peter Neilson, son


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Death Cert, Cit. Date: 14 Jan 2018.
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Archibald married Mary Ann Aitken on 27 Apr 1866 in Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland. Mary (daughter of Peter Aitken and Janet Pearson) was born on 12 Dec 1838 in Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland; was christened on 18 Dec 1838 in Torphicen Church, West Lothian, Scotland; died on 26 Oct 1907 in East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: D6A1A736E42F4F58B7F1EA5784499428804B
• Residence: 1841, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1851, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1861, 6 Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 27 Apr 1866, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland; Domestic Servant
• Residence: 1871, Raeburn Row, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1881, 54 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Garret Row, East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1901; housekeeper
• Residence: 1901, 126 Lang Row, Whitburn, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 24 Apr 1917, 13 McGowan Row, Cowie, Stirlingshire, Scotland

Notes:

Informant on the death of Mary Aitken was her son Peter Neilson

Notes:

Married:
Name: Archibald Nelson
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 27 Apr 1866
Marriage Place: Torphichen,West Lothian,Scotland
Spouse: Mary Ann Aitken
FHL Film Number: 6035516

Name: Mary Ann Aitken
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 27 Apr 1866
Marriage Place: Torphichen,West Lothian,Scotland
Spouse: Archibald Nelson
FHL Film Number: 6035516

1Witnesses at the wedding of Archibald Neilson & Mary Aitken were William Morton and Andrew Easton

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• _UID: 52E53FE9BEF741739BD6E9631BFE6863699C
• Occupation: 1881; coal miner
• Residence: 1881, 165 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1891; coal miner
• Residence: 1891, Woodmuir High Row, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 28 Mar 1894; coal miner

Alexander married Elizabeth McArthur. Elizabeth was born in 1833 in Shotts, Lanarkshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 78B94E498C294E3D967FF05760D3CBEB4DCA
• Residence: 1881, 165 East Benhar, Fauldhouse, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1891, Woodmuir High Row, West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland

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• Occupation: labourer
• Occupation: shepherd
• _UID: 7266644C50C3409BAE230D19E17E110BE8DD

James married Jean Matthew. Jean and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 48B333CAF5384E21953B834840EFD9D60D36

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• _UID: 74DA5E471C4D4801B9A3A2A6A6922734DC54
• Occupation: 1841; Agricultural Labourer
• Residence: 1841, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1851; Labourer
• Residence: 1851, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1856, 6 Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1861; Limestone Miner
• Residence: 1861, 6 Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 1871; Dyker
• Residence: 1871, Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Occupation: 23 Aug 1875, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland; Stone Dyker
• Residence: 23 Aug 1875, Bishopry Cottage, 7 Bowyett, Torphicen, West Lothian, Scotland

Notes:

On 17 Jul.1814 Peter paid for the banns to be read. "Proclamation of Peter Aitken, in this parish (Torphichen) and Janet Pearson, in Linlithgow, twice in one day".

In 1832 he paid 6/8 for the use of the "best mortcloth used to the deceased Marion Liddell", his mother-in-law.

On the 1st Dec 1837, he was absolved by the Kirk Session at Torphichen, of the sin of drunkenness, using profane language and riotous behaviour but not before having held out for quite a while against the Session.
The following comes from the research of Graham Marshall, with great thanks.
" Peter was charged with the offences when he went to the minister, in Feb 1833, to arrange to have his son Robert baptised. The minister took the opportunity to report him to the Session ' in consequence of certain complaints as to the repeated instances of drunkenness as of late'.
Peter Aitken initially refused to play their games which led to the Session appointing a committee comprising the Minister, the Session Clerk and four Elders to sort him out.
Thus it was that Peter appeared before this Church Court in Torphichen on 25th March 1833 charged with one specific instance of his alleged offences and that on the night of New Years Day he had been in widow Arthur's house 'in a state of intoxication and of then or there having uttered profane oaths and of having conducted himself both in the said house and about the door in a riotous manner.'
He admitted that he had been in the house but denied that he had been intoxicated or uttered profane oaths or behaved in a riotous manner. The Session then called witnesses to prove their case.
First came widow Arthur (Agnes Walker widow of the late Thomas Arthur) who remembered Peter Aitken coming to her house about ten or eleven o'clock and that while he had been drinking he was in control of himself. It appears he sent her for a bottle of whisky and that she had brought him half a bottle and was sent for and found another, there is no mention of where she found them.
It seems the company were willing to share Peter's first bottle of whisky but not so the second, referred to in the Session Minutes as 'spirits in a bottle'. He appararntly tried to persuade Norman McQueen to take a drink but there was something about it that persuaded Norman to throw it on the back of the fire which displeased Peter Aitken who threatened to ' pit him up in the reek'.
There seems to have been a scuffle after that but there was conflicting evidence from the widow Arthur and others as to exactly what happened. John Brodie and Norman McQueen seemed to be involved asn so it seems was Peter. There seems to have been an attempt to take the disagreement outside which resulted in Norman being pulled into the house and Peter, being outside, hammering on the door to be let back in. John Brodie clearly had remained inside since he, it was claimed, had gone to the door and asked if they wanted him. It sounds as if William Aitken was also outside although the evidence hardly mentions him. Peter apparently answered 'No it was old Nany and young Nanny and Mary and that them to put them in the dam.'
The second witness, Paul McFail refused to take the oath so the proceedings were postponed until the following day to hear more witnesses; Agnes Arthur the widow's daughter, John Marshall and Margaret, his daughter.
Agnes seemed clearer than her mother about who was in their house on New Year's night. She told how Mary Gunn, Norman McQueen one of their lodgers, John Brodie another lodger and her mother were there when Peter Aitken came in with William Aitken (possibly his brother) but supported her mother's view that he was not drunk. She was also clearer about who left, listing Peter Aitken, William Aitken, Paul McFail and John Brodie. She, her mother and Mary Gunn then went to bed, however she later said she had been in bed all of the time and couldn't see all that happened. It seems that John Marshall came in towards the end of the incident and had the poker taken to him by Agnes who had risen from her bed to clear the house. His testimony added a touch of farce when he claimed to remember meeting Peter Aitken and going with him to James Aitken's (probably another brother) house then on to Philip Gunn's house but that he could not remember being in widow Arthur's house. His daughter Maggie cleared that one up when she told how she had collected her father from there and took him home.
There is something ironic in the choice of date to hear the evidence for the defence - April first.
Peter went first and he admitted using intemperate language but not fighting or being drunk. He called Philip Gunn who described Peter Aitken as 'except for himself, the soberest man in the company in his house on the night of the 1st of January'.
The evidence seemed to have little effect on the Session Committee who referred it to the Presbytery who met two days later at Linlithgow where Peter argued that the evidence given for and against him was contradictory. But did acknowledge that he 'had in face of much provocation spoken one unguarded word for which he was sorry and resolved to be on his guard'. But that was not enough for the Presbyters who 'resolved without a vote to appoint a committee of three to examine the extract minutes of the Kirk Session of Torphichen and report to next meeting of Presbytery what facts appeared to them to be substantiated by the evidence.'
The committee reported back in three weeks with a neat summary of what they saw as the evidence. They were 'clearly of the opinion that the evidence proves that Peter Aitken had been drinking freely in the house of Philip Gunn, that he came with others to the house of Widow Arthur and sent for whisky. But it does not seem proved that Peter Aitken was very much intoxicated; that it seems true that Peter Aitken did then use profane language and behaved in a riotous manner in the Widow Arthur's house and after outside of her door demanding admittance and that the witnesses brought by Peter Aitken do not in any respect rebut the evidence on the part of the prosecution.'
The Presbytery agreed with the findings and referred it back to the Session for action who in their turn referred it to the Minister, His success in dealing with Peter Aitken was complete. He took only another two an a half years to persuade Peter to apologise to session. Whether Robert and his sister " (Roobert and Catherin children of Peter who were born in this time)" were then baptised is not recorded but normal service was resumed with the baptism of the next child, Mary Ann in 1938."

In the 1861 census two grandchildren, William aged 5 and John aged 7 months were living with Peter and Janet
In the 1871 census, grandchild William aged 18 was living with Peter and Janet

His daughter-in-law, AINNIE Aitken, reported his death.


Residence:
In 1856 the family resided at 6 Bowyett in the parish of Torphichen, along with William Aitken the illegitimate son of their daughter Janet and Andrew Cape

Peter married Janet Pearson on 17 Jul 1814 in Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland. Janet (daughter of John Pearson and Marion Liddell) was born in 1792 in Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland; was christened on 11 May 1794 in Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland; died on 9 Jul 1888 in Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland; was buried in 1888 in Torphichen Churchyard, West Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 2A35A9C662254443BD0CC49B09F7FB717084
• Residence: 1841, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1861, 6 Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1871, Bowyett, Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland
• Residence: 1881, Bow Yett, Torphicen, West Lothian, Scotland

Notes:

John Aitken was the informant on his mother's death certificate, in 1888.

Notes:

Married:
Banns were called at Torphichen and once at Linlithgow. i.e. Torphichen where Peter was residing and Linlithgow parish where Janet resided.

Name: Peter Aitken
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 17 Jul 1814
Marriage Place: Torphichen,West Lothian,Scotland
Spouse: Janet Pierson
FHL Film Number: 1066638


Name: Janet Pierson
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 17 Jul 1814
Marriage Place: Torphichen,West Lothian,Scotland
Spouse: Peter Aitken
FHL Film Number: 1066638