Seeking Immigrants from Greenock/Glasgow to Canada: Kerr, Cunningham

[CPTDisgruntled]

I got stunning assistance from Susano last time I posted, so I have high hopes I may get lucky again!
My grandmother, Christina Ballantyne, had 12 siblings. I know that her elder brother, John, emigrated to Welland, Ontario, but just found her Canadian Immigration Service arrival document, on which she reported that she was to join a sister identified as Mrs. Annie Kerr (Annie Ballantyne was born ca. 1880 in Greenock, Scotland, according to the 1891 census; she was out of the home by 1901).  Christina Ballantyne gave Annie's address simply as Norwich P.O.  Someone hand-wrote "Sask" next to it, but I don't find any Norwich in Saskatchewan.  There is a small town not too far from Welland, Ontario, called that, however.
Anyway, I haven't been able to find a marriage/child recorded in either Scotland or Canada.

I also stumbled upon a fabulous transcription of BMD records in the Greenock Telegraph which included the marriage of their sister, Margaret, to William Cunningham, plumber, in Welland on 1 July 1907; I am equally short on any other info on Margaret and William.

[polarbear]

You can search the 1901 and 1911 Canadian censuses for free at this link ...

http://automatedgenealogy.com/

If your local library subscribes to Ancestry Library Edition you should be able to find the original registry image of the marriage of Margaret to William Cunningham.

Polarbear

[cosmac]

William Cunningham was also from Greenock Scotland.  He and Margaret had at least 3 children.   Robert b. either the 11th or 12th of July 1911 depending on which birth registration you take.  Margaret b. 21 June 1909 and Christina b. 1914 - all in Welland, Ontario.

Christina's birth is from a Form 30A.  They were returning from a visit to Scotland and travelled on the Saturnia from Glasgow to Quebec arriving 28 Oct 1921.  Their address was 60 Evan St. Welland, Ontario.

Debbie

[susano]

William Cunningham, age 24, bachelor, born Greenock, Scotland, occupation plumber, Presbyterian, son of Robert Cunningham and Susan McNattan
and
Margerat Ballantyne, age 23, spinster, born Greenock, Scotland, occupation housewife, Presbyterian, daughter of John Ballantyne and Eliza Hopkins

Married by license at Welland, Ontario on July 1, 1907 by John D. Cunningham
Witnesses were Hugh Cowan, Welland, and Mary Kennedy, Welland

Susan

[susano]

Margaret died on May 11, 1935 in Windsor, Ontario, at the age of 51 years.  William was the informant.  She is buried at Victoria Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

If you can get access to Ancestry, you can view the original image.  If you cannot, I can give you the details.

Susan

[CPTDisgruntled]

Susano, you are miraculous. 
I do have an Ancestry account, but I find it hideously unwieldy--I type in a  search, including as many specifications as I can think of, and get 2,400 returns!!  "Margaret Cunningham, born 1884 in Greenock Scotland" gets me about 200 birth records from 1938 in Texas.   
I'm not doing something right . . . 

[susano]

Hi CPT

Try filtering by selecting "Canadian records only" if you want to concentrate your search on this country.  That's what I do and then I expand if I suspect that there may be records of interest in the US or UK etc.  It's not a good idea to be too restrictive with passenger lists though as many immigrants came to this country via the US.

To find Margaret's death registration, search only Canadian records and then further filter by Ontario deaths if it doesn't come up near the top.  You can view the actual image which gives lots of information.

I'm afraid there are a lot of possibles for Annie (Ballantyne) Kerr.  Do you have any other information about her....husband's name or initials, children's names, etc....any clues at all??

Susan

[CPTDisgruntled]

Cosmac, thanks for the additional cousins!
Polarbear, I am afraid the censuses are not especially helpful in the absence of the info Susano asked for.  Annie's troublesome: the only two pieces of info I've been able to find for her are the 1891 census, in which she is identified as an 11-year-old scholar, and Christina's destination report quoted above. 
Annie's two oldest siblings, Jane and Mary, were reportedly born in Dunse, Berwickshire; Annie was the first of the family born in Greenock.  I still haven't found birth records for J & M, which may mean their births weren't reported.  I do have marriage records for those two.
The only other thing I can say is that if Annie is called that twice, it's likely to be her actual birth name (i.e., it's not Ann or Anne).  For example, there's a sister called Bessie, and that's her name on her birth registration, not Elizabeth.
Annie's occupation, if pre-marriage, may well be "domestic", though some of her sisters apparently worked in a textile/wool processing factory.  With the canal and locks, I guess that Welland may have offered some of the same ship-supplying jobs that the men were familiar with from Clydeside.
But that's all I got for ya!

[polarbear]

Looks like William and Margaret had another daughter Janet who was age 21/2 on the Form 30A filled in on the return trip from Scotland in 1921. This would make her birth year approximately 1918.