Author talk:James Drennan

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probate
Name 	James Drennan, land valuator, sometime at Holmston near Ayr, latterly at Auchinlee, Ayr Death Date 	9 Aug 1892 Death Place 	Auchinlee Confirmation Date 	17 Nov 1892 Confirmation Place 	Ayr, Scotland
 * Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh under the Sheriff Courts Act, 1876. Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories.

burial
James Drennan Birth   19 Jan 1819    Dalrymple, East Ayrshire, Scotland Death   9 Aug 1892 (aged 73)    Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland Burial   Ayr Cemetery    Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland Memorial ID   197455973
 * findagrave

In Memory of JAMES DRENNAN Land Valuer Who Died at Auchinlee, Ayr, 9th August 1892 Aged 73 Years And of His Sister MARION Who Died at Ayr 16th Feb 1911 Aged 94 Years Also of His Wife JANE EDGAR Who Died at Ayr 27th Sept 1911 Aged 78 Years

census
Name 	James Drennan Age 	72 Relationship 	Head Spouse's Name 	Jane Drennan Gender 	Male Where born 	Dalrymple, Ayrshire Registration Number 	578 Registration district 	Ayr Civil parish 	Ayr County 	Ayrshire Address 	Auchanlee Miller Road Occupation 	Living on Private Means ED 	10 Household schedule number 	104 Line 	6 Roll 	CSSCT1891_198 Household Members (Name) 	Age 	Relationship James Drennan 	72 	Head Jane Drennan	58 	Wife Marion Drennan	74 	Sister Charles Edgar	16 	Nephew Sarah Shaw	24 	Serv (Servant)
 * 1891 Scotland

baptism
Name 	James Drinnan Gender 	Male Age 	0 Birth Date 	19 Jan 1819 Baptism Date 	22 Jan 1819 Baptism Place Dalrymple, Ayr, Scotland Residence Date 	1819 Residence Place 	Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland Father 	John Drinnan Mother 	Margaret Mcconnochie
 * Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

occupation

 * http://www.ayrshirehistory.org.uk/advertiser/an26pt3.htm Two Hundred Years of the Ayr Advertiser (part 3)
 * The agricultural editor for over forty years was James Drennan (c.1818-1892), a practical farmer and land valuer, who championed many agricultural improvements through the pages of the Advertiser. *::[‘Perhaps the most important regular correspondent was James Drennan of Auchinlee, who for forty years in the second half of the 19th Century reported experiments and improvements in tillage, breeding, farm implements and particularly early potato culture.’ [Ayr Advertiser, Thursday 6th August 1953, 1c]]


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