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Jane (Jean) Rendall and John Rendall

Jane (Jean) Rendall (b. 22nd April 1830) was the oldest child of John Rendall and Margaret Lennie. She married John Rendall (b. 1823) from Longhouse in Westray on 27th 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:

  • William Rendall b. 20th October 1852
  • Ann Rendall b. 10th March 1862
  • John Rendall b. 2nd 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 18th April 1905 at the age of eighty two. Jean Rendall died at Breckowall on 29th August 1908. She was seventy eight.


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