Elizabeth Moffat^{[1, 2, 3]}

1813 - 1885  (72 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Moffat
  Gender	Female
  Alias/AKA	Betty Tait
  Birth	1813	Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [2, 3]
  Alternate Birth	about 1816	Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [4, 5]
  	Birth record gives Aug 1 1813, Bapt Aug 25, 1813
  Immigration	15 November 1851  [6]
  Death	8 January 1885	Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	after 8 January 1885	Oak Hill CemetaryOak Hill Cemetery, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA
  Alternate Death	1888  [2, 3]
  Residence	1851: Enterkinfoot, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
  Submitter	GWM
  Person ID	I42681	Clan Moffat Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 August 2007

  
  

  Father	Adam Moffat,   b. about 1776   d. 11 August 1849, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Austin,   b. 1782, probably, Penrith, Cumberland, England d. 1 October 1871, Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	1802	Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [7]
  Family ID	F14376	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Thomas Tait,   b. 25 June 1815, Kirkpatrick Durham, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 25 September 1891, Foster Twp., McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	6 March 1840	Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland   [8, 9]
  	proclamation in KirkPatrick-Durham22 Feb 1840
  Children	1. John Brown,   b. about 1826, Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland + 2. Joseph Moffat Tait,   b. 30 May 1841, Kirkpatrick Durham, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 4 August 1912, Rochester, Olmsted Co., Minnesota, USA (Age 71 years) + 3. Elizabeth Tait,   b. January 1843, Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. after 1930 (Age ~ 88 years) + 4. Agnes Tait,   b. about January 1846, Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. November 1903, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age ~ 57 years)   5. Marian Tait,   b. 14 March 1847, Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 1922, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 74 years)   6. Jannet Tait,   b. 1850, Durisdeer, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. about 1918 (Age 68 years) + 7. George Findlay Junior Tait,   b. 11 November 1851, At Sea d. 11 September 1922, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 70 years) + 8. Thomas Adam Tait,   b. 1855, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. before 1918, Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, USA (Age < 62 years) + 9. Jane Anne Tait,   b. 17 February 1857, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA d. 29 September 1899, Bradford, McKean Co., Pennsylvania, USA (Age 42 years) + 10. Isolean Tait,   b. about 1879, Pennsylvania, USA d. after 1931 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F49479	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1813 - Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Alternate Birth - about 1816 - Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Marriage - 6 March 1840 - Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Birth record gives Aug 1 1813, Bapt Aug 25, 1813 for an Elizabeth Moffat of these parents. Colgrove record gives 1816, as does the 1851 census, which may be correct considering that many of Adam Moffat’s children died. [Majer Colegrove Family.FTW] Information provided by Agnes Margaret Colegrove Fraser in 1989. Elizabeth was probably born in Scotland of the Moffat Family from Moffat, Scotland. Probably died in Bradford, PA. Married Thomas Tait Children: #1 Lizzie #2 Jane #3 Thomas #4 Unknown [Adapted by Alaric Faulkner from reminiscences of Lizzie Tait Gallaher, Notes of Stella Fox Beam] Elizabeth ("Betty," Lizzie’s mother) was among the older ones of the Moffat children. She was brought up in the preachers house, the great stone house inherited by her mother Elizabeth Austin Moffit. It was there her dog Canty died. The wife cooked the dog and put it in the cupboard. They all ate, and she told them Canty was gone. There were free schools in Moffat [John Williamson’s Spa?, The Morrison School, demolished c.2001] . A wealthy man died leaving the money to fund free schools and water to be piped to the poor people's homes. Moffat was a very religious community. One did not so much as read a newspaper on Sunday. 1851 Scotland Census Name: Elizabeth Tait Age: 35 Estimated birth year: abt 1816 Relationship: Wife Spouse's name: Thomas Gender: Female Where born: Moffat, Dumfrieshire Parish Number: 823 Civil parish: Durisdeer County: Dumfriesshire Address: Enterkinfoot Household Members: Name Age John Brown 25 Agness Tait 6 Elizabeth Tait 35 Elizabeth Tait 8 Jannet Tait 1 Joseph Tait 9 Marrion Tait 4 Thomas Tait 35, [4, 5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1398] submitted by Alaric Faulkner, GEDCOM file from file “AdamMoffatDesends”. [S1] Robert and Frances Moffitt, Original Moffat GEDCOM File. [S865] Genealogy Files compiled by George West Maffet. [S1373] Moffat Dumfriesshire Scotland Baptisms 1723-1854. [S1370] Scotland Census, 1851. [S1372] Barque Junior, arrived from Glasgow to New York Harbor on November 15, 1851. [S1390] Clan Moffat Genealogy. [S1386] International Genealogical Index. [S1387] Moffat Dumfrieshhire Scotland Marriages and Deaths 1709-1854, proclamation in KirkPatrick-Durham22 Feb 1840.