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« on: Friday 01 September 06 02:44 BST (UK) »
Janice,
Here's some more info on the family, making the world smaller still:
Agnes Chalmers Leitch, dau of Andrew and Wilhelmina, married 21 Apr 1899 in Govan, John Cairns. He was her second marriage, first was to a man named Cree.
John was the son of William Kirkwood Cairns & Helen Thomson.
John & Agnes had a daughter, Agnes Chalmers Leitch Cairns, who married 30 Dec 1921 in Govan, Peter Reid Lawson.
Peter and Agnes had a daughter Elizabeth Reid Lawson, b 1923.
Peter was the son of John Christie Lawson and Elizabeth Reid.
Elizabeth Reid was the sister of my paternal gt-grandmother Mary Wilson Reid, who married George Campbell Ross.
My grandmother Elizabeth Reid Ross, was their dau, born in Govan.
The Ross' emigrated to NY in 1904.
John & Elizabeth Lawson emigrated to NY in 1921.
Peter Lawson and Agnes emigrated to NY after his parents.
The Ross' and Lawsons built a house together here in NY, and although I knew the Ross', I only knew Susan Lawson (see below), not any of the others, even though they had attended my father's sister's wedding, and stayed in touch with those cousins until my aunt's death in the 70's.
Peter and Agnes' dau Elizabeth Reid Lawson never married, and may have passed away by now.
Peter had a sister Susan Todd Lawson, who also emigrated, and married Victor Blanco, born in Spain. They had no children. Upon retirement, they lived in the house both families had built,; Susan, widowed, moved to Toronto to someone in the Lawson family when the house had to be sold.
I do not know which Lawsons were in Toronto, do not know what happened to any of them except Susan. Peter had died by 1930, apparantly Agnes never remarried as of 1950.
Cheers,
Peigi
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