James Spens

   Ancestral File Number: 1VPN-RP.

  General Notes:

Birth date family tradition Jan 9, 1797 or 1794, see below for record
TIB, SL Temple, 5 Sept and 29 Aug 1916 F#25166 pt 58
Marriage to Isabella Irvine: James Spence Copper plate printer, Parries Close, Edinburgh and Isabella Irvine ,Reids Close Cannongate Drummonds Land, 2nd story, daughter of the late John Irvine, potter West Pans, gave up their names for marriage - certified by Peter Turner,Copper plate printer St David Street Edinburgh and Robt Laurie, Writer, Leith Street there 16 May 1817; Edinburgh Parish Marriages and Scroll Register of Proclamations, Parish of Cannongate Film #304,661 pt 2;
Marriage to Jane Grey Davison Sep Q, 1855 10b 165, Newcastle T.;
1851 Census of Newcastle, All Saints Parish, age 54, born Scotland, Printer Master;
1861 Census, living at 61 Elswick Lane in Westgate District, Ref. RG.9/ 3813/ folio 58 /p.66, his second wife, Jane was not living with James, who was listed as a widower,
James was informant living at 61 Elswick Lane in 1862 when Cuthbert died;
Death: 1870 Sep Q Newcastle T. 10b 61, W Spens, informant (address Orchard Street)
Burial No. 9063, St. John's Cemetery, Westgate Road
James Spens, male, 76, of Orchard Street; Newcastle Weekly Chronicle Sat., Sep 24, 1870, deaths: "Orchard Street, Slinns Court, 23rd inst.," aged 76;
James Spens, copperplate printer, witness on son Thomas's will.

Batch #C041291, Source Call # 825323 (RG4 4517, 4518, 4519) Zion Chapel is Lady Huntington Church, James son of James and Frances Spens of the Parish of St John's Wapping, born May 30th, 1799 and baptized March 2, 1801 by Thos Jones, minister entry #164;
A separate entry: Batch #C055782, Source Call # 578789, "James Son of James Spens, Custom house Office, by Frances" (entry crossed out), possibly Col. James unable to arrive for his earlier appointment;

1861 census living at 61 Eastwick Terrace Newcastle on Tyne with his daughter.
Age 64, birth estimated as between 7th April 1796 -7th April 1797 in
Scotland.
His two sons were also staying with the Douse family. It was Easter weekend.

Linda Kelsey:
Bill Tinline spoke to me when I visited him in St. Peters hospital before he
died. He asked me to discover the family history of James Spens he
knew had been born in Scotland between 1796 and 1797.

Thomas Spens the first physician at Edingburgh Hospital had three brothers,
James born 1761, Grahame born ? and Nathaniel born ? and one sister Janet.

Thomas's wife was Bithia Wood. He had no details of their family.

James married Isabella Elizabeth Macleod 1n 1787, Frances Stuart in 1797 and
Elizabeth Joanna Davidson in 1804
Three children are mentioned Nathaniel, John and Hannah

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census, 1861, Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Widower, age 64, living with daughter Sarah Ann and her family at 61 Elswick East Terrace

James married Isabella Irvine, daughter of John Irvine and Unknown, on 16 May 1817 in Cannnongate, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. (Isabella Irvine was born on 9 May 1799 in , Scotland, died on 12 Jun 1851 in Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England and was buried on 15 Jun 1851 in Jesmond General, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England.)

James next married Jane Gray, daughter of Henry Grey and Jane Archbold, on 30 Jul 1855 in St Peter's, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England. (Jane Gray was born in 1819 in Shipley Hill, Northumberland, England, baptised on 26 Sep 1819 in Lesbury, Northumberland, England, died on 23 Sep 1891 in Westgate, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England and was buried on 25 Sep 1891 in General Cemetery, Newcastle/Tyne, Northumberland, England.)