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Title: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: sawyerhja on Thursday 11 March 21 16:48 GMT (UK)

"Troutie".
 A Scottish relative emigrated to Canada in the early 1900's and is believed to have married a Troutie.
There's no trace of such a name in FS nor Ancestry..
Any thoughts, please?

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: Gadget on Thursday 11 March 21 16:59 GMT (UK)

It's not necessarily Scottish. In 1 or 2 mins, the following surnames came up for Canada, USA and Cuba

Troutie, Trutie, Trottie, Troute, Thoutte, Troutte

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: Maggsie on Thursday 11 March 21 17:00 GMT (UK)

Hi,
There are 11 "Troutie" names in Ancestry.
Troutie   and   Canada there is One.
Mrs S. Troutie in  Votes list in 1963.
Another from Italy in born 1879 ship record to the USA.
Maggsie

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: sawyerhja on Friday 12 March 21 13:21 GMT (UK)

Thank you Maggsie and Gadget. I need to dig further. It is possible also that Troutie is a form of Traude, a diminutive of the German Waltraude. Who knows.

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: Gadget on Friday 12 March 21 13:45 GMT (UK)

If you give us the name of your relative who married a Troutie, and the approx time frame, we could have a look for the marriage, etc. .

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: sawyerhja on Friday 12 March 21 14:38 GMT (UK)

Thank you for the offer. I am doing this research at the request of my relative, who wrote (my recent/only findings are in square brackets):

"Robert Robertson b1910  [14 Nov, found on Scotlands People] Kilmarnock, d? Montreal Canada. Emigrated possibly around the 1920s/30s [on Ancestry, I found the emigration to Quebec 1932]. May probably have travelled with James Robertson (No middle name) [on Ancestry, I found the emigration to Quebec 1923] but again not certain. Robert was a manager in Bank of Montreal. James returned to Scotland before the war.

"m. Troutie ?  (that may be a real Christian name or a nick name) no surname. Canadian.

Good luck

 

Title: Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
Post by: Josephine on Friday 12 March 21 16:14 GMT (UK)

Hi,

[Edited to add: This has been done. You should probably delete the son's name, since the notation says he's probably still living, and Rootschat has a policy against naming living people.]

I'm going to send you a PM with the text of an obit I've found, in case it might contain some useful clues. It doesn't give the age of the deceased but he had a son with the right name, so it might be worth checking up on.

Edited to add: The obit, published in The [Montreal] Gazette on August 3, 2001, is for Robert (Robbie) Robertson, who died at Saint Anne's Military Hospital, on July 31, 2001. There's an obit for his wife, Emma Robertson (nee McEwan), in The [Montreal] Gazette, on March 9, 1999. Both were interred at Mount Royal Cemetery. There seems to have been a connection to Notre Dame de Grace, Montreal. No ages are given for either of them.

Regards,
Josephine