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Name
May Stuart
Given names
May
Surname
Stuart
Married Name
May Stuart
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MarriageDonald Stuart - View family
Yes
 

History 1804
 

Note: Napoleon declared Emperor.
History 1805
 

Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
History 1809
 

Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History 1811
 

Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History 1812
 

Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History 1814
 

Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History 1815
 

Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
History 1819
 

Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History 1820
 

Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History 1821
 

Note: Napoleon dies.
Birth of a son
#1
before 18 January 1829
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

son - Peter Stuart
History 1829
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
Baptism of a son 18 January 1829
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

son - Peter Stuart
History 1830
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
Birth of a son
#2
1831
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

son - William Stuart
History 1832
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
Birth of a daughter
#3
before 19 February 1834
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

daughter - Margaret Stuart
History 1834
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
Baptism of a daughter 19 February 1834
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

daughter - Margaret Stuart
Birth of a son
#4
before 5 September 1837
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

son - Jesse Stuart
History 1837
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
Baptism of a son 5 September 1837
 Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

son - Jesse Stuart
History 1838
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History 1842
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History 1849
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853
 

Note: Crimean War.
History 1855
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
History 1857
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
Marriage of a sonWilliam Stuart - View family
21 May 1859
 Dun, Forfarshire, Scotland

son - William Stuart
daughter-in-law - Helen Candy
History 1861
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History 1869
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
History 1879
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
Death of a son 1 June 1905
 Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland

son - William Stuart
History 1905
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
History 1914
 

Note: The Great War (World War I).
History 1916
 

Note: Easter Rising in Dublin.
History 1917
 

Note: Russian Revolution.
History 1918
 

Note: All men over 21 and women over thirty enfranchised.
History 1922
 

Note: Irish Free State established.
DeathYes
 

Family with Donald Stuart - View family
husband
Donald Stuart

Death Yes  

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herself
May Stuart

Death Yes  

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Marriage: Yes
#1 son
Peter Stuart

Birth before 18 January 1829  Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

Death Yes  

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23 months
#2 son
William Stuart

Birth 1831  Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

Death 1 June 1905 Age: 74  Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland

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3 years
#3 daughter
Margaret Stuart

Birth before 19 February 1834  Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

Death Yes  

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4 years
#4 son
Jesse Stuart

Birth before 5 September 1837  Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland

Death Yes  

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