Sir
Isaac
Pitman
Born in Naish's Yard, Hill Street, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Pitman
and Maria (Davis) Pitman
Brother of
Melissa (Pitman) Jones, Jacob Pitman, Abraham Pitman, Rosella Pitman, Joseph Pitman, Jane (Pitman) Hunt, Benjamin Pitman, Mary (Pitman) Webster, Henry Pitman and Frederick Pitman
Husband of
Isabella (Masters) Pitman
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Alfred Pitman and Ernest Pitman
Died
at age 84
in Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset, England
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Biography
Isaac Pitman is Notable.
- Sir Isaac Pitman (1813-1897) was the son of Samuel Pitman & his wife Maria Davis
- He was born in Naish's Yard, on the west side of Hill Street, Trowbridge on the 4th of January 1813.
- In 1837 he developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.
- He married, firstly, Mary Holgate née Brown (widow of George Holgate) on the 5th of Jan. 1835 at Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire, England. She died d.s.p.'in 1857.
- He married, secondly, Isabella Masters, daughter of Henry Masters, on 21 April 1861. They had two sons Ernest Pitman & Alfred Pitman.
- He was created Knight Bachelor by Queen Victoria in the 1894 Birthday Honours.
- He died aged aged 84 in 1897 at his home in Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset.
Sources
- Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886 Transcription
- First name(s) Isaac
- Last name Pitman
- Baptism year 1813
- Baptism date 11 Apr 1813
- Place Trowbridge
- Father's first name(s) Samuel
- Father's occupation Weaver
- Mother's first name(s) Maria
- County Wiltshire
- Country England
- Record set Wiltshire Baptisms, 1530-1886
- Transcriptions © Wiltshire Family History Society
- freeBMD Marriages Jun Q 1861 Bath 5c 1190 PITMAN Isaac + MASTERS Isabella
- freeBMD Deaths Mar Q 1897 Bath 5c 448 PITMAN Isaac Age 84
- PITMAN'S DEATH. (1897, January 26). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136561264
- Reed, T. (2008, August 22). A biography of Isaac Pitman (inventor of phonography) : Reed, Thomas Allen, 1826-1899 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. Archive. https://archive.org/details/biographyofisaac00reed/page/80/mode/2up
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Isaac by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Isaac:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Isaac by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Isaac:
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William (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster 2nd Bt
William (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster 2nd Bt
KB is not the post nominal of Knight Bachelor which has no post nominal.
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by William (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot of Kittybrewster 2nd Bt
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