Robert Tolleth

My great great great grandfather Robert Tolleth was born in 1791 in Kinnoull, Perthshire, to a Mr. Tullieth. He was shown on voters roles and parish records a market gardener. He and his wife Barbara had five children; two sons and two daughters. One of his sons, James, was my family’s ancestor that crossed the ocean and is the reason we are all here!

1791 • Kinnoull, Perthshire, Scotland..

          Birth of Son

          His son John was born on 21 December 1813.

1803

U.S. negotiates Louisiana Purchase from France: for $15 million, U.S. doubles its domain, increasing its territory by 827,000 sq mi (2,144,500 sq km), from Mississippi River to Rockies and from Gulf of Mexico to British North America.

•  21 DEC 1813 • Perth

  Birth of son

  His son James was born on 13 August 1816 in Perth, Perthshire.

  1814French defeated by allies (Britain, Austria, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Portugal) in War of Liberation. Napoleon exiled to Elba, off Italian coast. Bourbon king Louis XVIII takes French throne. George Stephenson builds first practical steam locomotive.

  13 AUG 1816

  
  Birth of Daughter

• His daughter Ann was born in 1822.

  Birth of Daughter

  His daughter Betsy was born in 1827 in Perthshire.

  Betsy Tolleth

• 1833

  Slavery abolished in British Empire.

  Birth of Daughter

  His daughter Elizabeth was born in 1837.

  1839

  First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China, over importation of drug into China.

   Residence

  Robert Tolleth lived in Kinnoull, Perthshire, in 1851.

  1854

  Britain and France join Turkey in war on Russia. In U.S., Kansas-Nebraska Actpermits local option on slavery; rioting and bloodshed. Japanese allow American trade. Antislavery men in Michigan form Republican Party. Tennyson‘s Charge of the Light Brigade. Thoreau‘s Walden.

• Death of Wife

  24 JAN, 1867

  His wife Barbara passed away on 24 January 1867 at the age of 73.

   Barbara Sinclair

  1793–1867

  Death of Son

  His son John passed away on 28 November 1880 at the age of 66.

  John Tolleth

  1813–1880

  28 NOV 1880

  Death of Son

  His son James passed away on 22 May 1898 in Vesta, Nebraska, USA, at the age of 81.

  James Tolleth

  1816–1898