James Steele

   Cause of his death was Chronic Bronchitis (18 months).

  Noted events in his life were:

• He appeared on the census in 1841 in Quarrelton, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland. Recorded (aged 3) living with parents George (30, coal miner) and Ann (25) and siblings James (1) and George (1m).

• He worked as a Coal Miner in 1851. He was aged 12 at the time.

• He appeared on the census in 1851 in Paisley Road, Quarrelton, Abbey, Renfrew, Scotland. Recorded (aged 12) living with his parents George and Ann, and siblings John, George, Edward, Adam and Robert.

• He worked as a Miner in 1860.

• He had a residence in Feb 1860 in Quarrelton, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland.

• He worked as a Coal Miner in 1861.

• He had a residence in Feb 1861 in Campbell Street, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland.

• He appeared on the census in 1861 in 2 Graham Street, Abbey, Paisley, Scotland. Recorded (aged 23) living with his wife Mary (20) and son George (one and a half months) in a house with one windowed room.

• He worked as an Iron Miner from 1871 to 1882.

• He appeared on the census in 1871 in Erskines Land, Elderslie, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland. Recorded (aged 33) as an Ironstone Miner living with wife Mary and children George (10), James (6), Rebecca (4) and Edward (2). The house had one windowed room.

• He had a residence in May 1880 in Bridgend, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland. From daughter Ann Kelly Steel's birth certificate.

• He appeared on the census in 1881 in The Brick Dwelling, Abbey, Renfrew, Scotland. Recorded (aged 42) as an Ironstone Miner living with wife Mary and children George (20), James (15), Rebecca (14), Edward (12), Mary (9), Kate (5), John (3) and Annie (11m). Also in the house was a visitor called Janet Perry (59), an unemployed dressmaker describled as an imbecile.

• He worked as a Farm Labourer in 1891.

• He appeared on the census in 1891 in Heather House, Elderslie, West Renfrewshire, Scotland. Recorded as a farm labourer living with wife Mary, daughters Mary, Kate, Annie and Bella, and grandson James in a house with 3 rooms with one or more windows.

• He worked as a Coal Miner in 1893.

• He was ill with chronic bronchitis from 1892 to 1893.

James married Mary McKinlay, daughter of James McKinlay and Elizabeth Messrs, on 9 Mar 1860 in Elderslie Manse, Elderslie, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland. (Mary McKinlay was born circa 1841 in Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland and died on 12 Feb 1904 in Elderslie, Johnstone, Renfrew, Scotland.) The cause of her death was Dysenteric diarrhoea (6 months).