I know I am asking the impossible, but I am desperate. I am searching for Catherine Manson and her forebears if it is possible.
Any suggestions on locating her would be grateful.
Catherine is supposed to have been born in 1826. On the ship manifest, she says she was born in Edinburgh, but there are no Catherine Mansons on the 1841 Census in Edinburgh. There is one in Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. On the census, this Catherine (listed as Mannie on Ancestry) states she was born in Lanarkshire. This Catherine does not occur on later censuses.
She emigrated to Australia in 1846 as a female servant which the colony of South Australia were looking for. She died in NSW in 1903 and her son says she was born in Glasgow. Her father may have been called Robert Manson according to him.
She was working for a Robert McFarlan, a clothier in Sauchiehall St. It appears McFarlan was the third generation of his family to be a linen and woollen draper. William was the first, he had a shop in Trongate in 1787. Robert appears to have had a father Robert who also had a shop as a linen and woollen draper in Gallowgate in 1828.
Catherine's birth appears to have been unregistered. Any suggestions in following up possibilities will be gratefully accepted. Until recently, I had no confirmation that she was on the same boat as her future husband. All I had was a name Catherine Manson, and the date of birth 1826. I have been barking up the wrong tree for two years until I got her death certificate, which was difficult to find. I now have confirmation that the Hansen or Manton on the Agincourt was actually Catherine. She may have left Glasgow to work in her future husband's uncle's shop in Salisbury St, Edinburgh before embarking. Her future husband was a cloth merchant apprentice.
There were very few Mansons in Lanark or Glasgow at this period.
Denise
