James Potter

[eileendavid]

Can someone advise me on the details of a census that I have found on family search

Name   James Potter
Event Type   Census
Event Date   1841
Gender   Male
Age   65
Birthplace   Scotland
Parish   Edinburgh
County   Midlothian
Birth Year (Estimated)   1776

I have tried to find it on Scottish People but have been unable to find it.  Any advise welcome if it's mine he will be a shoemaker or tanner

Eileen

[DonM]

Only one in SP

POTTER JAMES 1841 M 65 685/1 7/ 11 Edinburgh Midlothian

In FREECEN it says he is a Joiner

Piece: SCT1841/685 Place: Edinburgh -Midlothian Enumeration District: 7
Civil Parish: Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: St Andrew's
Folio: 7 Page: 12
Address: 29 Elder St

    POTTER   James   M   65   Joiner    Outside Census County (1841)       
    POTTER   Mrs   F   65       Outside Census County (1841)       
    POTTER   Janet   F   25   Stay Maker    Midlothian     

Don

[eileendavid]

Hello Don

Thanks for that John not mine then

Eileen

[MonicaL]

There is a James Potter in Ayrshire that might fit with the occupation you mention:

James Potter 67 shoemaker journeyman b. Ireland
Mary Potter 67
Janet Potter 35
Agnes Potter 30

Address: High Street, Ayr

Monica

[eileendavid]

Thanks for that Monica.  My James was married to a Jane Holdsworth unless he married again to a Mary and moved from Mid Lothian to Ayr. Daniel his son was also a shoemaker who lived in Dalkeith.  Gosh this part of my history is proving hard to decipher.

[eileendavid]

Well it has been ages since I posted and I am still no nearer finding James Potter.  Info I have he married at Cannongate Edinburgh in 1798.  I have the register entries at two churches on one he recorded he was a tanner and on the other was in the Shropshire Militia.  He married Jean/Jane Holdsworth daughter of Stephen.  Best man was John Bright.

Also on the marriage register it recorded that John Bright married Agnes Smith and James Potter was his best man. He was also in the Shropshire Militia.

The Shropshire Militia marched into Edinburgh in 1797.  Now I have been advised that to be in the Shropshire Militia you would be from that part of the country. 

Although there are several James Potters born in Scotland I haven't found John Bright.

Can anyone help me unravel this conundrum as to whether both were from Shropshire area and what happened to them when the Militia disbanded in 1802. 


James and Jane/Jean had a son Daniel circa 1799 not found his birth but when he married Helen Bolton they continued to live in Dalkeith. 

Hope you can help

Eieen