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Jane (Jean) Rendall and John Rendall

Jane (Jean) Rendall (b. 22^nd April 1830) was the oldest child of John Rendall and Margaret Lennie. She married John Rendall (b. 1823) from Longhouse in Westray on 27^th October 1849. John was the oldest son of William Rendall and Barbara Cooper. His father did have family from his first marriage to Margaret Work. The earlier family included John's half brother, William Rendall, who married his mother's sister, Marjorie Lennie

John was a farm servant at Trenabie at the time of the 1851 census. Their first child was then five months old. They had five children:

• Margaret Rendall b. 18^th September 1850 who married Robert Tullock

• William Rendall b. 20^th October 1852

• Jean Rendall b. 13^th May 1858 who married James Walls

• Ann Rendall b. 10^th March 1862

• John Rendall b. 2^nd February 1868

The family moved to Breckowall and then Stonysteps in Pierowall where they were prior to 1881. He had previously been an agricultural labourer but became a foreman fishcurer. By 1891, John is sixty eight and his occupation according to the census is a general day labourer. This has changed to butcher by 1901 when he is seventy eight.

John died at Brough on 18^th April 1905 at the age of eighty two. Jean Rendall died at Breckowall on 29^th August 1908. She was seventy eight.