Andrew Jameson IIAge: 59 years1811–1870
- Name
- Andrew Jameson II
- Given names
- Andrew
- Surname
- Jameson
- Name suffix
- II
Birth | 30 April 1811 41 |
Baptism | |
Residence | 1811 |
Birth of a brother | Melville Jameson 1812 (Age 8 months) |
Description | Andrew was in a fair way to build up a practice in the Parliament House, when he contracted a weakness of the throat which threatened unless remedied, to hinder his career as an advocate. Accordingly, for several winters he visited the Mediterranean. about 1835 (Age 23 years) |
Education | He was educated at the University of St. Andrews, and at the age of twenty-five was called to the Bar. before 1836 (Age 24 years) |
Description | Andrew visited the Mediterranean, acquiring their languages and developing a keen interest in the flickering Protestantism which list their Papal darkness. He returned from his travels with a collection of Italian pictures and a throat happily cured. about 1836 (Age 24 years) |
Occupation | He was appointed sheriff-substitute at Ayr, and there in 1845 his eldest son Andrew was born. In the same year he was transferred to Edinburgh, to the onerous post of sheriff-substitute of Mid-Lothian. 1842 (Age 30 years) |
Religion | He has passed through the crisis of 1843, and he was a warm supporter of the Free Church - being, indeed, one of its official legal advisers. He was an elder in St George's and chairman of the National Bible Society of Scotland. 1843 (Age 31 years) |
Marriage | Alexandra Grace Campbell — View this family Andrew married in 1844 Miss Alexander Grace Campbell, whose legal ancestry was as pronounced as his own. Her brother Neil became Sheriff of Ayr; her father, Alexander Campbell of Barnhill, was sheriff-substitute at Paisley. 28 August 1844 (Age 33 years) |
Birth of a son #1 | ‘Lord Ardwall’ Andrew Jameson III 5 July 1845 (Age 34 years) |
Baptism of a son | ‘Lord Ardwall’ Andrew Jameson III 10 August 1845 (Age 34 years) |
Death of a father | Andrew Jameson I 1846 (Age 34 years) |
Birth of a son #2 | John Jameson 1848 (Age 36 years) |
Death of a mother | Euphemia Chalmers 1848 (Age 36 years) |
Occupation | In 1865 he was appointed sheriff-principal of Aberdeen - this being at the time only the second case on record of a sheriff-substitute being appointed to a sheriffdom. 1865 (Age 53 years) |
Death of a son | John Jameson 1870 (Age 58 years) |
Death | His second son, John, was attacked by diphtheria. Andrew visited him in Glasgow and returned to Edinburgh believing the crisis was past. But he fell victim to the same disease, and while on the Saturday John died, Andrew followed on the Sabbath, aged 60. 30 October 1870 (Age 59 years) |
Probate | 9 February 1871 (3 months after death) |
Family with parents |
father |
Andrew Jameson I Birth: 1770 — Dysart, Fife, Scotland Death: At his death in 1846 he was the doyen of the sheriff-substitutes of Scotland, and had taken a leading part in securing an increase of their salaries and pensions - a part recognised on three occasions by the presentation of handsome grants. — 1846 |
mother |
Euphemia Chalmers Death: 1848 |
himself |
Andrew Jameson II Birth: 30 April 1811 41 — Cupar, Fife, Scotland Death: His second son, John, was attacked by diphtheria. Andrew visited him in Glasgow and returned to Edinburgh believing the crisis was past. But he fell victim to the same disease, and while on the Saturday John died, Andrew followed on the Sabbath, aged 60. — 30 October 1870 — Edinburgh, Scotland |
20 months younger brother |
Melville Jameson Birth: 1812 42 Death: 1902 |
brother | |
sister | |
sister |
Family with Alexandra Grace Campbell |
himself |
Andrew Jameson II Birth: 30 April 1811 41 — Cupar, Fife, Scotland Death: His second son, John, was attacked by diphtheria. Andrew visited him in Glasgow and returned to Edinburgh believing the crisis was past. But he fell victim to the same disease, and while on the Saturday John died, Andrew followed on the Sabbath, aged 60. — 30 October 1870 — Edinburgh, Scotland |
wife |
Alexandra Grace Campbell Birth: 1820 — Ayrshire, Scotland |
Marriage: 28 August 1844 — Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland |
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10 months son |
‘Lord Ardwall’ Andrew Jameson III Birth: 5 July 1845 34 25 — Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland Death: 21 November 1911 — Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
4 years son |
John Jameson Birth: 1848 36 28 Death: Died of Diphtheria — 1870 — Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
Family with Margaret Hotchkiss |
himself |
Andrew Jameson II Birth: 30 April 1811 41 — Cupar, Fife, Scotland Death: His second son, John, was attacked by diphtheria. Andrew visited him in Glasgow and returned to Edinburgh believing the crisis was past. But he fell victim to the same disease, and while on the Saturday John died, Andrew followed on the Sabbath, aged 60. — 30 October 1870 — Edinburgh, Scotland |
wife |
Margaret Hotchkiss Birth: Castlemilk, Dumfries-shire, Scotland |