Brick Wall in Portobello! C0MPLETED THANK YOU

[MonicaL]

So Margaret and Beatrice still very much AWOL by 1911!

I wonder if Margaret had more children between 1901-11? She was still very young wasn't she, born c. 1873?

Monica

[Lyn54]

Monica - I have her!

I've just found Beatrice's death cert. 5 Apr 1948
Beatrice Ann Wilson widow of David Meldrum Wilson
Parents:  John Crosby (different spelling than before!) Bottle Worker & NELLIE Crosby, afterward McGurk MS Milburn.
Informant - Stepbrother T McGurk.


YES!!!!!!!!  I love it when a plan comes together!

[MonicaL]

  Hurray! Love it when all your effort gets rewarded. That is Beatrice isn't, all the info on her death cert connects the dots. Apart from how her birth may have been entered, she certainly fits in with the family.

Monica

[Lyn54]

Thanks for all your help Monica - you've been a gem.
Go and get and well earned cuppa!!
Take care
Lyn

[MonicaL]

Best of luck with everything Lyn 

You might want to follow through with John Crosb* and possible deaths, might give you clues on Margaret's whereabouts in that period around the early 1900s.

There is a death for example for a John Crosby in 1908 in Portobello (born 1861) as a possiblity for Beatrice's father...

Let us know if you get another great breakthrough!

Monica

[Lyn54]

Will look at those, thanks again Monica.  Will let you know how I get on 

[sporran]

Hello Lyn,


Helen Melbourne (37) and Beatrice Crosbie (12) were in Edinburgh Morningside for the 1911 Census, as visitors to William and Elizabeth McDonald.  William and Elizabeth had two daughters born in England: probably Sunderland from FreeBMD.

The John Crosbie in the Royal Infirmary in 1901 was the same person who died in Portobello in 1908, and he was the eldest brother of my great-grandmother.  I was unaware that he had fathered another child until your post, so thank you for the information.  Generations of the Crosbie family moved between the Newcastle/Ryton/Sunderland areas and Glasgow/Edinburgh areas, with the men being potters or bottle blowers.  John Crosbie was married to Frances West in 1891 at Ryton (County Durham), and he was recorded as married to her on his death registration, but I have not been able to find Frances after the birth of their daughter Mary Jane Crosbie in 1892.  Mary (Polly in 1911) was with her grandmother Sarah West in 1901 and 1911 before I lost track of her as well.


Regards,

John

[Lyn54]

Hi John

Thank you so much for this information.  I'm only just starting to fill in the gaps concerning Beatrice Crosbie, a child that we had no information about.  Would appreciate any information on the line you descend from.  Do you have a tree on Ancestry?

My tree on Ancestry is under Blyth/Hutchison.

Best wishes
Lyn

[MonicaL]

Gosh, John, that is great information  Certainly helps with background regarding young Beatrice.

Monica