Jane or Jean Murray

[redmond1]

thank you so much for your detailed help and information.  I should be able to get further information in the next couple of days. Thank you again
kind regards

[redmond1]

she did re marry a Samuel Nixon, not sure when and not sure when he died, so maybe I should be looking for death certificates under the name Nixon?

[JustLooking]

Nothing with a surname Nixon (soundex) and a birth circa 1893 ish from 1961-1965 in Lanarkshire

BUT a Jean Nixon, other names Murray Watt in Old or West Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire in 1962.  This death cert is too recent to view on line and would have to be ordered.


JL

Added - missed her age - she was 68 - so born circa 1894 

[JustLooking]

No Nixon/Murray marriage but a Watt/Nixon marriage:

1931 - Glasgow Calton - Samuel Nixon and Jean McIntosh Watt


JL

[JustLooking]

Ah - Jean Mcintosh Watt was aged 36 in Feb 1931 so b. 1994-5 ish

Father was a Charles Watt, shipwright (dec)  and Mother was Elizabeth m.s. Murray


JL

[MonicaL]

That is looking really promising JL 

Redmond, hopefully your father's birth cert will go some way to confirming at least his mother's maiden name. With confirmation of what her maiden name was, this will let you verify that the marriage JL has found to Samuel Nixon in 1931 is the right one.

Monica

[redmond1]

You both are the best! I can't thank you enough for your help
will confirm when I can get my hands on the documents.
kind regards

[redmond1]

to Just looking and Monica, I found the birth certificate, shows Jane Murray October 2nd 1893 54 High street dumbarton, Mother Elizabeth Murray.  I also found Marriage to Samuel Nixon, her name was listed as Jean McIntosh Watt 1931 married in calton. Not sure where the McIntosh or Watt comes from. Found her death certificate, she was listed as Jean Nixon. She was widowed in 1939. My father changed his name legally from Mcintosh to Nixon in 1958 prior to marrying my mother.
Any additional help with finding who her mother was married to would be greatly appreciated.

[MonicaL]

As with your father, perhaps your grandmother took on the surname of a later (step?) father. There is a marriage showing on SP in 1895 in Dumbarton for an Elizabeth Murray and a Robert McIntosh that you might want to consider viewing. I think this might be them on the 1901 census:

Robert Mcintosh 39, Coal Man's Labourer b. Edinburgh
Elizabeth Mcintosh 36 b. Dumbarton
Michael Mcintosh 16 b. Dumbarton
Jane Mcintosh 8 b. Dumbarton

Address: 15 Bowie Street, Dumbarton

Not sure about the origins of the Watt name (maybe reputed father )

Monica