When Annabel Muir Dempster was born on 16 April 1837, in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John Dempster, was 35 and her mother, Margaret Templeton, was 27. She married Jesse Barber Voshell on 30 October 1853, in Fayette, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Brush Creek, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1885 and Fairfield Township, Fayette, Iowa, United States in 1900. She died on 7 February 1904, in Fayette, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Arlington, Fayette, Iowa, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1854: Fayette, Iowa, United States
The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
English, Manx, and Scottish: occupational name for a judge or arbiter of minor disputes, from Middle English demester(e) ‘judge’. Although this was originally a feminine form of the masculine dēmere (see Deamer ), by the Middle English period the suffix -stre had lost its feminine force, and the term was used of both sexes. The surname is not common in England, where the term was early replaced by Anglo-Norman French juge (see Judge ), but relatively frequent in Scotland, where until 1747 every laird of a barony could have certain offenses within his territory tried by his dempster, and on the Isle of Man, where deemsters also played an important part in the administration of justice.
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