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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Stirlingshire => Topic started by: bigjon on Tuesday 03 January 23 12:08 GMT (UK)
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was there any official emmigration to South Africa from stirlingshire in the 1870,s?
I am trying to trace Thomas Reid b. 1860 in Torpichan. He shows up on 1861 and 1871 census and then disappears. He married Amy Harrison in South Africa in April 1888 and I have him from then.
thanks ................bigjon
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Ancestry have - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60967/
marriage for background purposes :- (which you have)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8P4Q-FWN2
https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?ark=/ark:/61903/1:1:8P4Q-FWN2&id=GW4W-73S&hinting=/tree/person/details/
Sandra
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Have you tried this one :-
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3038342
Sandra
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What was his occupation? He may have emigrated after securing a job in Africa.
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What was his occupation? He may have emigrated after securing a job in Africa.
Occupation on this marriage certificate is platelayer
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSKX-VGQH?cc=2821281&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3A8P4Q-FWN2
Sandra
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This is later, but may be the kind of thing that took him out to Africa.
Southern Echo, 13-9-1897:
PLATELAYERS FOR AFRICA
The locomotive staff of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Company, are furnishing some forty or
fifty picked men guards, drivers, firemen, and
platelayers - for service on the line opened up from
B[ ]ra to Salisbury, and which is ultimately to be
carried on to Bulawayo. A reporter ................
....... was informed .......... "We are constantly approached ....
by Colonial and foreign agents to find
men we think would be useful as instructors in the
initiating of railway traffic in distant parts. Par-
ticularly, the London and Chatham has been applied to
for platelayers, our platelayers being con-
sidered as amongst the best to be found."