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John Stewart Merrillees 1826 - 1905

John Stewart Merrillees was born in 1826 at Paisley, in Glasgow City County, Scotland United Kingdom. He was in a relationship with Elizabeth (Edwards) Merrillees, and had children James Frederick Merrillees M.D., Edward William Merrillees, Florence Elizabeth Merrillees, Ernest Arthur Merrillees, Herbert Delintella Merrillees, Bertram Cecil Merrillees, and Crichton Raoul Merrillees. John Merrillees died at age 78 years old on July 12, 1905 in Hawthorn, Boroondara City County, VIC Australia.

John Stewart Merrillees

1826

Paisley, in Glasgow City County, Scotland, United Kingdom

July 12, 1905

Hawthorn, Boroondara City County, VIC, 3122, Australia

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Came to Australia in 1854.
1826

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1826

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Paisley, in Glasgow City County, Scotland United Kingdom

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1905

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July 12, 1905

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Hawthorn, Boroondara City County, VIC 3122, Australia
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Obituary

The Argus, Melbourne. 13th July 1905. MERRILLEES.- On the 12th July, at his son's residence, 448 Burwood-road, Hawthorn, John, the beloved husband of Elizabeth Merrillees, aged 79 years.

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John Stewart Merrillees lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.

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In 1826, in the year that John Stewart Merrillees was born, on July 4th, former US Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died. It was the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson died a few hours before Adams. Adams, unaware of Jefferson's death - who was both a friend and a rival - said as he was dying ""Thomas Jefferson survives."

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In 1835, when he was merely 9 years old, on June 2nd, P. T. Barnum and his "circus" began their first tour of the U.S. He had paid $1,000 for an elderly slave named Joice Heth, who he claimed was 161 years old and a former nurse for George Washington. Touring the northeast of the U.S., he made more than $1,000 per week. Joice died the next year - at about 80 years old.

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John Merrillees' Family Tree & Friends

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John Stewart Merrillees 1826 - Jul 12, 1905

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Elizabeth (Edwards) Merrillees