Brief Life History of Alexander Gordon
When Alexander Gordon Troup was born on 13 June 1861, in Newmachar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Harry Troup, was 35 and his mother, Anne Ross, was 31. He married Lillian Caroline Waters on 26 February 1890. They were the parents of at least 7 sons. He lived in Fairview, Bergen, New Jersey, United States in 1900 and New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1910. He died in 1936, in Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 75.
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- Alexander G Troup, "United States Census, 1920"
- Alexander Gordon Troup, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
- Alexander G Troup - marriage 1890 to Lilian C Watters - New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · The Representation of the people (Scotland) Act 1868
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Act 1868 was passed by Parliament and allowed for the creation of seven additional Scottish seats in the House of Commons. Along with the seats, Two University constituencies were created. These each returned one member to Parliament.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
Scottish (eastern): habitational name from a place in the parish of Gamrie, near Banff. The placename is unexplained, perhaps a Pictish cognate of Welsh trwp ‘vessel, dish, basin’.
Possibly also English, a metathesized form of Thorpe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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