McGavin - any suggestions!??

[tidybooks]

Hi Fridayjan,

Looked in British Newspapers (Gale Digital Collection) and if you follow this links, 2 members of the family were promoted in the 80th Lanarkshire Rifles.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/03bf/

Robert McGavin, Jun, Esq to Captain, and John Adam Skelly McGavin Gent. to lietenant from the Glasgow hearld of 16 th April 1860.

Tom

[tidybooks]

Hi fridayjan,

I could not resist sending you this link, http://www.rootschat.com/links/03bg/  ,
it is anadviert for Mellins Food, check the baby top right, it is a Sydney McGavin Reid, son of a William McGavin Reid, he maybe related somehow.

Tom

[fridayjan]

Hi Tom,

Thanks, I had seen the pieces about John and Robert when I googled their names.  At first I thought they were in the regular army but in 1861 they are both listed as Merchant's Clerks, so I presume it was a part-time force??

I tried your link but it says I need an ID to access the database.

That's interesting about the advert - seems too much of a coincidence to have all those names together doesn't it!

Janet

[tidybooks]

Hi fridayjan,

To see the links, just go and register, I got this site from another Rootschatter, and I have spent some time checking things on it. It is free to register, it says it is time limited, but I have been on it for about 3 weeks now.

Tom

[MonicaL]

Talking about links..... , there is also this one for WW2 in New Zealand:

http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/23318.detail

Monica   

[ewilkin]

Hi Janet,
Found the website, have never heard of this site before. 
I have lots of details for you dates of arrival in Australia, even have a little booklet written about the voyage of the ship that Robert McGavin arrived on - its quite interesting.
Have been to Scotland and dug up a few graves and even the original farmhouse where Robert was born, also found the street where they had a business in Edinborough and his uncle has a huge monument in the Necropolis at Edinborough erected by the citizens he was a great writer for the Presbyterian Church.
More later
Cheers
Elizabeth

[MonicaL]

Hi Elizabeth

Welcome to RootsChat 

Well, that's a good result for Janet 

Monica

[jackie1946]

HI
I have just found this site, and I have been trying to find the birth of my grandfather who was Robert Gibson Reid but have difficulty in understanding the Scottish records being English and now Australian, I think or am pretty sure that he was born in Glasgow and  went to England and married after a complicated relationship, his father was William Mcgavin Reid who married Elizabeth Wingfield , again hopefully this is the right Mcgavin they married in 1886 aged 25 and 26 they married in Walthamstow London his father was Robert etc and was a restaurant proprietor any ideas!!
Jackie

[MonicaL]

HI Jackie

Welcome to RootsChat 

Might be worthwhile putting up a completely separate post for your query so that more people get the chance to see it and help. It might get a bit lost at the end on this post about the McGavins....

In the meantime, what approx year of birth do you have for your grandfather Robert? Nothing is showing for a birth with the middle name Gibson on Scotlands People, probably the birth was registered simply as Robert Reid. Not an uncommon name  so the more info you can post that you already have the better.

Monica