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Renfrewshire / Re: maxwell
« on: Friday 26 April 19 23:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi dmcp

Are you kindly able to offer any more info regarding your Aunt Ina to see if there is any link to Robertina Nimmo at all? As ever I am still searching for a photo of her or any new information  ???

Kind regards
Jenny

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Renfrewshire / Re: maxwell
« on: Thursday 24 March 16 05:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lisa

It's no problem it's good to try and solve the mystery and get your husband some answers to his past 😊. You have probably already checked but I had a quick search on ancestry yesterday but haven't as yet found any evidence that Robertina was in America around those dates. It is strange the Wylie match as well as she had her first child with a Wylie. I have not had my DNA tested so I'm not sure how the results of it all work and come together? I'd love to do it though! My dad might be the better candidate as he is further back in that line and does it need to be the male side anyway?

Jenny xxx

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Renfrewshire / Re: maxwell
« on: Wednesday 23 March 16 07:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I was really interested to read your post and would love to help if I can? The tree you referenced is mine I'm glad it has been helpful (!)and I have been trying to find out as much as I can about Robertina. She is my great grandmother and it has been frustrating research so far but will share what I know with you!! Xx

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Renfrewshire / Ina Millen and Ina Wilson (Port Glasgow and Greenock)
« on: Sunday 23 February 14 18:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone

Just trying to find out any information or memories of the above ladies who are my Great Gran and Gran.  I keep coming up against brick walls or leads which mysteriously let me down which is so frustrating!! My Great Gran Ina (Robertina) Millen also Miller and Nimmo by marriages was born in Port Glasgow abt 1898 her parents were Robert and Annie Millen, She had a daughter in 1920 by William John Wylie who was also called Ina (Williamina). Ina Nimmo died in 1967 in Glasgow. My Gran Ina married William Wilson in 1939 they lived in Inchgreen Street, Greenock and had a son John (Jackie) Wilson born the same year. Sadly Ina Wilson died in 1945 of TB and I have been desperate to find photos of both Ina's as I have never seen any. ANY help is so gratefully received it has become my life's mission to find photos of them lol :)

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Renfrewshire / Re: Ina Millen/Wilson and Greenock Schools
« on: Sunday 11 November 12 14:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi dmacp!

Yes I remember hearing from you before we had Annie and Robert Millen in common, that would be great to share some information it has been a real struggle getting anywhere with this - lots of brick walls.

My grandmother was Ina (Williamina) Millen who became Wilson when she married. Her mother was Ina (Robertina) Maxwell daughter of Annie Maxwell who went on to marry Robert Millen, when Robertina was still a baby if I remember rightly. Although the fact she was called Robertina makes me wonder if she was his daughter anyway :)

So is it Robertina or Williamina you are named after? Although it must be Williamina as she has the Wilson name - I know hardly anything about my Gran so this is very exciting!

Look forward to hearing from you!!

Jenny

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Renfrewshire / Re: 14 Inchgreen Street in Greenock 1902 - 1915?
« on: Sunday 03 June 12 10:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi Cranstone

I don't think I've got back that far with my Wilson's they seem to have come over from Ireland, I think from lateish 19th century and that has been my brickwall. Whether they were in Greenock earlier I don't know but there could be a link as there were so many Wilson's in Inchgreen Street!! ??? Some could have paved the way for other family members to come over, did your Mary Ann come from Ireland?

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Renfrewshire / Re: 14 Inchgreen Street in Greenock 1902 - 1915?
« on: Sunday 03 June 12 09:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi Old Maid
I didn't know about Samuel Wilson so that is a new person to me! I struggled with researching the Wilson name and the James Wilson who was the son of James and Eliza I have no information on apart from just knowing they had a son called James! I must have got the name also from James seniors death cert but not been able to  find out anything else so this has been really helpful thank you. Inchgreen Street plays a big part in this Wilson family. My Wilson tree is on ancestry I'll send you a pm.

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Renfrewshire / Re: 14 Inchgreen Street in Greenock 1902 - 1915?
« on: Wednesday 25 April 12 13:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi again dreamingwombat

My Wilson's came from County Derry but I've not got far enough back to see if they actually originate from there. I've looked back at all the names and also on the website you gave me a link to but none pop up on my tree. My ones all worked in the shipyards so no stonemasons among them. You are right Wilson is a common name and the families back then seem to not move too far away from each other so it doesn't help when the addresses are so similair, very confusing! They would have at least known of each other. I will ask my Dad if her remembers the Nicholl family in Inchgreen Street. Do you know how long they stayed in the street for?

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Renfrewshire / Re: 14 Inchgreen Street in Greenock 1902 - 1915?
« on: Tuesday 24 April 12 21:19 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: dreamingwombat on Tuesday 24 April 12 14:07 BST (UK)
Quote from: jennifah on Wednesday 20 September 06 15:57 BST (UK)
Hi

My great gran lived at 14 Inchgreen Street. Her name was Martha Wilson, I'm not sure when she moved there as she lived at other no's too(she seems to have lived most of her life in that street) but she was there when she died which was in 1952

Don't know if this is of any help
kind regards

Hi Jennifah
I wish I could get in touch with you. I am researching Wilson in Greenock. In 1918 George and Elizabeth Nicholl lived at 14 Inchgreen Street, and by 1945 they were at number 10. Their son George Nicholl married Margaret Wilson, and Margaret lived with them at 10 Inchgreen Street.  I wonder if Martha is perhaps related to Margaret?
Hi dreamingwombat

I feel there must be a link somewhere. My geat granny Martha was a Wilson by marriage, she married James Wilson and he was born at 10 Inchgreen Street in 1898. Hmmm I need to do some searching........ James did have a sister Margaret Wilson but my research showed she had two marriages and not to a Nicholl but she would have been too old anyway going by your dates. James and Martha had two sons William and John. The son William stayed in Inchgreen Street, married Ina and had a son John Wilson 1939 - my Dad, so all the families would have known each other it was a real community in that street. All my Wilson's lived 6, 10, 14, 16 Inchgreen Street at some point, moving around the same street.
Do you know who your Maragaret Wilson's parents were?


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