Archibald Ritchie

   Cause of his death was old age.

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as an Agricultural Labourer in 1841.

• He appeared on the census in 1841 in Blackness, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 50) living with wife Marion (55) and son John (20, agricultural labourer).

• He worked as an Agricultural Labourer in 1851.

• He appeared on the census in 1851 in Blackness, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 63) living with wife Marion (70) and grandson Archibald Ritchie younger (8, scholar).

• He appeared on the census in 1861 in Blackness, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Recorded (aged 75) living with wife Marion (82), daughter Mary (46, farm worker) and grandson John Ritchie (9, scholar) in a house with one windowed room.

• He had a residence from 1851 to 1867 in Blackness, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland.

Archibald married Marion Rankine, daughter of John Rankine and Isabella Shanks, on 22 Aug 1808 in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. (Marion Rankine was born in 1778 in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, christened on 24 Jun 1778 in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland and died on 30 Dec 1867 in Blackness, Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland.) The cause of her death was old age.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They had marriage banns published on 22 Aug 1808 in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. 'Irregularly married'

• They had marriage banns published on 12 Jun 1809 in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Archibald Ritchie and Marion Rankine having compeared before the Session in the 12th June 1809 and acknowledged themselves to have been irregularly Married on the 22nd August 1808 and having paid 10/6 to the poor as penalty were suitably exhorted to adhere to one another like husband and wife and dismissed accordingly.