Hi Joe,
Thanks for your continued vigilance. I have just opened up after completing the hoovering up - I hate it! But it is one of my chores and I just have to get on with it.
Well, Joe - you've opened up another can of worms, but it is interesting and it looks like you are correct.
After digesting the information received on Saturday, I had thought that Elizabeth may have been born out of wedlock but it looks like you have solved the problem.
You asked about the 1861 marriage cert: John Someville married Isabella Douglas on 31st Dec 1861 and the residence given in the register is; 49 Greenvale Street, Glasgow (this may have been misinterpreted when entered and was actually No. 44 Greenvale Street). John's father and mother were George Someville and Margaret Somerville nee Heally. Isabella's father and mother were Agnes (poor writing here but it looks like Agnes) Douglas and George Douglas.
The mysteries now are: What happened to wee Agnes Somerville born 26/03/1868. She was born before the 1861 census but does not appear on the 1871 census. Did she die before the age of 5? This I am trying to find out and will probably go for a death certificate search and a download.
The other mystery is; I always remember my mother telling me that my gradfather Joseph Somerville was killed at the Ibrox Park disaster - there were 2. Since he was married to Caroline, his second wife in 1926, it was obviously not the 1st Ibrox disaster, which happended in 1901 and it could not have been the 2nd, since it occurred in 1971. So! I managed to locate and downloaded his death details. Joseph died on 4th January 1939 at the Victoria Infirmary, Cathcart, Glasgow from a falling injury where he sustained a fracture to the 6th and 7th Cervical Vertebrae - this sounds like a crushing to me! So, I then searched the net for info on football incidents around the date of his death to find that the traditional new years football game with Rangers and Celtic was held on 2nd January 1939 at Ibrox Park, 2 days before his death. I now think that it was not a disaster but that he may have been killed in a crowd crush. I have therefore emailed a site maintained by the University of Glasgow which holds records of all kinds of medical situations etc., from the Victoria hospital and other Scottish medical institutions. Fingers crossed that they reply and solve this one.
Thanks again Joe,
Kind Regards,
John
