Adam Duncan Tait, WS

From Scotland's People: Births and Baptisms

1864 birth of Adam Duncan Tait, male, registered district: St Madoes

From British Newspaper Archive: Dunfermline Saturday Press Saturday, 26 December 1863 Page 4 Births

Births: Tait.—At St Madoes Manse, St Madoes, Perthshire PH2 7NF 56.37694, -3.30083, on Sunday, 20 December 1863 [inst.], the wife of the Rev. Walter Tait, of a son.

From MyHeritage: Walter Tait: 1871 Scotland Census (transcription only)

2 April 1871 Census for residents of Manse Cottage, St Madoes, Perthshire, Scotland

• Walter Tait, head, married, male, aged 40 [born about 1831], in Kirkliston, Linlithgowshire (West Lothian); Minster of St Madoes parish
• Jane Eliza Tait, wife, married, female, aged 38 [born about 1833], in Midlothian; Minster's wife
• Adam D Tait, son, single, male, aged 7 [born about 1864], in St Madoes, Perthshire; Scholar
• 1 visitor, 3 servants

From Rugby School register from May 1874 to May 1904 by Rev A T Michell OR MA Volume 3 Published 1901 Page 52

Entrances in September 1878.

Adam Duncan Tait, son of the Reverend Walter Tait, St. Madoes, Glencarse, Perth, North Britain [N.B.], aged 14, [born] Sunday, 20 December 1863. Left 1882. 1 Bowden Smith

University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL 55.947389, -3.187194. Admitted a Writer to the Signet, 1889. Of [69 Prince of Wales Mansions, Prince of Wales Drive, Battersea, London SW11 4BH 51.476716, -0.151418]

From MyHeritage: Adam D Tait: 1881 England & Wales Census

3 April 1881 Census for residents of Boarding House to Rugby School, [probably] [School Field House, 2B Barby Road, Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 5DR52.3681005, -1.2613993], England

• Adam D Tait, boarder, single, male, aged 17 [born about 1864], in Scotland; Scholar
• Head plus 7 relatives, 45 other boarders, 8 servants

From A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet with a list of the members of the society from 1594 to 1890 Published 1890 Page 199

List of Members:

Adam Duncan Tait. Monday, 15 July 1889. Apprentice to John Kirk. Son of the Reverend Walter Tait of St. Madoes. Born Sunday, 20 December 1863.

From National Records of Scotland

Friday, 1 November 1889: Extract act of admission of Adam Duncan Tait W.S. to be a law agent in Scotland

From MyHeritage: Adam D Tait: 1891 Scotland Census (transcription only)

5 April 1891 Census for residents of [India Street, Edinburgh EH3 6HB 55.95624, -3.2060374], Scotland

• Adam D Tait, lodger, single, male, aged 27 [born about 1864], in St Madoes, Perthshire; Writer to the Signet
• 1 other lodger

From FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Evelyn Elizabeth Heath in 1901 and FreeBMD - Registration of marriage of Adam Duncan Tait in 1901

• April to June 1901: Registration of marriage of Adam Duncan Tait; in Bristol (Volume 6a, Page 290)
• April to June 1901: Registration of marriage of Evelyn Elizabeth Heath; in Bristol (Volume 6a, Page 290)

From The Cambrian Friday, 14 June 1901 Family Notices

On 6 June 1901, at St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1LP 51.4591, -2.6113, Adam Duncan Tait, son of the Rev. Walter Tait, of St. Madoes, Perthshire, to Evelyn Heath, second daughter of the late Rev. Richard Ford Heath, M.A., Vicar of Bishops Wood, Staffordshire.

From The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe by Frederick B Richards Published (191-) Page 46

Adam Duncan Tait married 1901 Evelyn Heath, children Barbara Jean Tait, Ian Ford Duncan Tait born 1904

From MyHeritage: Adam Duncan Tait: 1911 England & Wales Census

2 April 1911 Census for residents of [Malahule? location?], Englefield Green, Surrey 51.4301, -0.5699; house with 9 rooms

• Adam Duncan Tait, head, married for 9 years [about 1902], 2 children still living, male, aged 47 [born about 1864], in St Madoes, Perthshire (resident); Writer to the Signet, Secretary of Charitable Institutions
• Evelyn Elizabeth Tait, wife, married for 9 years [about 1902], 2 children still living, female, aged 42 [born about 1869], in Totteridge, Hertfordshire
• Barbara Jean Tait, daughter, single, female, aged 8 [born about 1903], in London; School
• Ian Ford Duncan Tait, son, single, male, aged 6 [born about 1905], in Englefield Green, Surrey; School
• Harriet Clifford, servant, single, female, aged 26 [born about 1885], in Windsor, Berkshire; Maid Domestic
• Mildred Sophia Walter, servant, single, female, aged 19 [born about 1892], in Chaddleworth, Berkshire; Maid Domestic

From MyHeritage: Adam D Tait: 1939 Register of England & Wales (transcription only) and Ancestry: 1939 England and Wales Register

Friday, 29 September 1939 Census for residents of 7/2 [probably] [Flat 7, 2 Ashburn Gardens, London SW7 4DG 51.4943602, -0.1860302], England

• Adam D Tait, head, married, male, aged 76, born Sunday, 20 December 1863; Writer To The Signet
• Evelyn E Tait, wife (implied), married, female, aged 71, born Thursday, 6 August 1868; Independent

From FreeBMD - Registration of death of Adam D. Tait in 1946

October to December 1946: Registration of death of Adam D. Tait; aged 83 [born about 1863]; in Oxford (Volume 6b, Page 789)

From British Newspaper Archive: The Scotsman Wednesday, 6 November 1946 Page 8 Deaths

Deaths: Tait. — At Oxford, on Monday, 4 November 1946, after an operation, Adam Duncan Tait. aged 83, of 1 Ashburn Gardens, London. Funeral, Rose Hill Cemetery, Eleanor Close, Rose Hill, Oxford OX4 3ND 51.7313, -1.2235, today, Wednesday, 6 November 1946, at 12:30.

From Ancestry 19470516 probate Adam Duncan Tait 7 Ashburn Gardens London SW7 d 19461104 Oxford pr London Evan Cameron Campbell and John Cook WS

16 May 1947 probate of Adam Duncan Tait of [7 Ashburn Gardens, London 51.4940233, -0.1859404], S.W.7, who died 4 November 1946, at Oxford, probate granted (confirmation) at London on 16 May 1947 to Evan Cameron Campbell and John Cook, Writer to the Signet.