John Rennie

  Noted events in his life were:

• He worked as a Printer's Labourer in 1861.

• He appeared on the census in 1861 in 19 Macdowall Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. Recorded (aged 45) living with wife Janet (44) and children John (20, printers compositor), Alexander (17, flesher) and William (13, scholar) in a house with 2 windowed rooms.

John married Janet Scott, daughter of Alexander Scott and Margaret Wight. (Janet Scott was born circa 1817 in Tranent, Haddington, Edinburgh, Scotland and died on 9 Sep 1891 in 4 Rae's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland.) The cause of her death was debility and old age.