Author talk:William Duffus

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Probate edit

  • Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh under the Sheriff Courts Act, 1876. Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories.

Name: Rev William Duffus
Death Date: 20 Apr 1894
Death Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
Confirmation Date: 26 Jun 1894
Confirmation Place: Edinburgh, Scotland


DUFFUS, Rev. William, value of estate £2,384 20s. 5d.

26 June. Confirmation of Rev. William Duffus, sometime Missionary, Presbyterian Church of England, Swatow, China, afterwards residing at 11 Braidburn Terrace, Morningside, Edinburgh, who died 29 April 1894, at Edinburgh, tested, granted at Edinburgh, top George Seivwright, Druggist, Cullen, Bannffshire, his brother-in-law, Executor nominated in Will or Deed, dated 21 march 1882m and recorded in Court Books of Commissariot of Edinburgh, 25 June 1894.

birth edit

  • Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: William Duffus
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 13 Feb 1846
Birth Place: Cullen,Banff,Scotland
Father: John Duffus
Mother: Hellen Muir
FHL Film Number: 990822

census edit

  • 1851 Scotland

Name: William Duffus
Age: 5
Relationship: Son
Father: John Duffus
Mother: Ellen Duffus
Gender: Male
Where born: Cullen, Banffshire
Parish Number: 150/1
Civil Parish: Cullen
Address: Seafield Street
ED: 1
Page: 10
Household Schedule Number: 38
Line: 7
Roll: CSSCT1851_34
Household Members:
Name Age
John Duffus Junr. 35
Ellen Duffus 30
Mary Ann Duffus 7
William Duffus 5
Ann Wilson 17

death edit

Biography Details
Reference No.: NM046338
Surname: DUFFUS
Forename(s): WILLIAM
Maiden Name:
Occupation: MINISTER & MISSIONARY
Date of Birth: 1846
Place of Birth:
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Biography: LIVED IN SWATOW CHINA
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Death Details
Date of Death: 20 APR 1894
Age: 48
Headstone Ref:
Place of Death: 11 BRAIDBURN TERRACE EDINBURGH
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25/04/1894

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COURANT
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30/04/1894

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Miscellaneous Articles
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Photographs & Illustrations
c. 1885

family photograph - n1228/42 (Portraits - Duffus family)