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Hi there. Awfully interested in what research youve done re the George lauder(s) above. I was wondering who you might be ...then seeing your research Interests at the bottom of your post I vaguely remembered the surname Winwick from the early years of searching my genealogy and my brother Ewan was in touch with Robyn in Australia via Bruce Doig. And then Anna Moir and all the research youd done on her came back to me (I think I remember reading some of your articles in the Tay Valley FHS booklet) anyway I better go and walk the dog and then get the garden tidied up. Making the most of what's supposed to be a sunny day in Glasgow 😄 best wishes,
George hebenton

This has stumped me. 2nd entry from top is the baptism of Elizabeth daughter of John Boog, shoemaker, and his wife Ann Reid in Dec 1805. Helpfully at this time in Dundee's record-keeping there was a "named after" column with almost all the children christened having the same Christian name as the witness. I can read the "E" in the witness name for the Boog entry but the surname has stumped me. The only known surnames in earlier generations of this family was Reid itself, and on the father's side Bog(g)/Bogue/Boag/Boig or Bogie and Yoolie/Yule. I don't think it is any of these surnames. My limited software doesn't seem to have a facility to make the image "negative" which has sometimes made writing more legible on an earlier computer. Many thanks in advance for any guesses hazarded!
best wishes,
George

Hi,

A long shot....
Helen Ann Gordon Robertson was born illegitimately in Maryton, by Montrose to Jessie/Janet Campbell and James Robertson, a day labourer, in 1843.

Nothing else is know of James Robertson's origins.
His daughter Helen later married John Hebenton and had a large family in Montrose.
Family lore says thatJames Robertson emigrated to Australia and put an ad. in the local Montrose newspaper some years after settling there asking for his daughter to get in contact.
Perhaps she hadn't told her family she was born out of wedlock, in any case the ad. went unanswered, and any knowledge of the specific timing of it too, to find it again.

Does any Robertson researcher  in Australia have a smiliar tradition of a James Robertson looking for his daughter back in Scotland?

thanks for reading,
George

Hi Dano,

I've just recently started using rootschat. It seems we have a couple of connections in common.
So I thought I'd say hello.
1) I'm a descendant of James Wilson & Agnes Aitken of Polmont via their son
Thomas Wilson married to Elizabeth Marshall.
My line goes like this...
their daughter Agnes Aitken Wilson married Thomas Brown
their son Charles Brown married Janet McMillan
Their daughter Agnes Wilson Brown married William Hebenton and were my grandparents

2) Going back to Thomas Wilson's wife Elizabeth Marshall.
She carried on her husbands carting business in Armadale after he left her a fairly young widow.
She was known as "coalie Leezie".
Her parents were Peter Marshall & Mary Hamilton.
Peter's parents were John Marshall & Elizabeth Wilson.
Elizabeth Wilson died in Greenock poorhouse in 1861 aged 88, her parents were Henry Wilson & Agnes/Ann Frew who wed in Muiravonside in 1769 (I cycled past there today lol!)
Henry Wilson & Agnew Frew had at least 6 children:
Janet (1769 Muiravonside)
Peter (1771 Larbert)
Elizabeth (my ancestor) (ca.1772-75 Larbert)
John (1784 Carriden)
Henry (1786 Carriden)
William (1790 Carriden)

-As their eldest son was Peter, an educated guess would mean Henry's father was a Peter Wilson
(hold that thought)

-I spied another couple in the Muiravonside registers.
Alexander Wilson & Janet Frew who married there in 1775.
There are large gaps between the baptisms of their children but they also had a Peter.

I'm wondering if it was a case of the Wilson brothers (Henry & Alexander) marrying the Frew sisters (Agnes/Ann & Janet)?
Looking for possible baptisms of an Alexander & Henry Wilson fathered by a Peter the most likely candidate I could find was Patrick/Peter Wilson & Janet Gordon.
Their son Henry born at Hillhead, Lasswade in 1747,
and son Alexander born at Hawthorden, Lasswade in 1752
As you probably know the youngest of the Wilson/Gordon family were born in Muiravonside in the early 1760s... linking the naming pattern with the places the Wilson/Frew marriages took place.

Reading of your descent from a Larbert branch of this WIlson family I would be really interested to compare notes and see what you make of these theories.
Oh, and by any chance have you ever looked at the marriage entry for Patrick/Peter Wilson and Janet Gordon in Lasswade in 1743? It doesn't seem to be available for viewing on scotlandspeople. I'm wondering if it would give any clues to the parish of origin of bride or groom if they were not both simply residents of the parish of Lasswade then.

I better stop for now
Best wishes,
George Hebenton