TIME LINE:

1836 battle of the Alamo
189 Americans offered their lives to insure the freedom of Texas against 2,000 Mexicans in a 13 day siege


1854 Charge of the Light Brigade
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.


1890, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg separates from the Netherlands.


Patrick Rankin Steel

aka Peter Steele


Joseph's father and Great Great Grandfather to Gordon Steele


Name
Patrick Rankin Steel
Spouse
Jane Swan
D.O.B.
11-Jan-1832
Location
Westfield, New Monkland
Marriage Date
01-Aug-1853
Location
New Monkland, Lanark
Death Date
21-Dec-1890
Location
Airdrie
Cause
Affection of Stomach
Age at Death
58
Vocation
Dairy Man
Father
Robert Steel
Mother
Janet Rankin


NOTES: Patrick was listed in the 1851 census as an Engine Keeper.
In the 1861 census as a coal salesman.
In the 1871 census he was a farm labourer.
In the 1881 census he was a "Pit Labourer".
But at his death in 1890 he was a Dairyman and living at 66 Meadowside Street, Airdrie.

It is Patrick that changed the name Steel, to Steele. It changes after the birth of his youngest son Joseph in 1874, but before his death in 1890.


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