June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Lesanne]

                Hi,
       So far children to Robert and Christian Davidson...

                     James...... 21/10/1787
                     Christian...12/8/1795
                      William......15/10/1797

                                            All born in Nigg.

                Lesanne.

[CatOne]

Children of Robert Davidson and Christian Philp -

Robert chr. 04/01/1783
Katherine chr. 21/08/1784
Alexander chr. 29/03/1786
James chr. 21/10/1787
Margaret chr. 01/08/1789
Isobel chr. 28/08/1791
John chr. 15/08/1793
Christian chr. 12/08/1795
William chr. 15/10/1797
Andrew chr. 11/04/1801

All christened Nigg, Kindardine.........

[CatOne]

Christening of a Christian Philp 08/10/1759 Nigg Kincardine - Parents - John Philp and Christian Donald (12/07/1753 John and Christian married in Nigg)


Also one 20/07/1762 and 18/07/1763 - Parents David Philp and Marion Allan or William Philp and Margaret Walker (Maryculter Kincardine though, not Nigg)

Most likely to be the Nigg couple do you think?.....

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Of course Margaret Davidson was the stepmother to Alexander Strachan Molison as William Maule Molison married Margaret after Alexander was born in about 1803.  Alexander's birth mother hasn't been found yet.

Back in the info we had from Michael there was somethng about Alexander's daughter Eliza Wilson Molison being named after her aunt and the family having quite a bit to do with the Wilson family.  Robert James molison stayed with Dr Wilson in Huntley when at Aberdeen Uni.  (Can't remember who Robert James was though.)

I've been playing around with Molison/Strachan/Wilson combinations to no avail.  Was James Molison's daughter Jeanie W, Jeanie Wilson?

Back to the Davidsons, Robert was aged 90 when he died in 1829 according to the grave inscription.
Robert Davidson chr14 Aug 1737 John Davidson & Katherine Hogg at Nigg
Jo

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Siblings to Robert Davidson: all at Nigg
Isabell 1729
Margaret 28 Mar 1740
Andrew 19 Apr 1735
James 1 Apr 1733

All names which reappear in Roberts' children.
Jo

[CatOne]

Theres a John Philp born to a John Philp and Janet Pollock, but its back in Glasgow chr. 29/09/1734.

Connection to the Pollock family but would John Philp Jr then have moved to Nigg Kincardine to marry and have children? Wonder if they had business ventures/land up there?....... (is Nigg, the one in the Highlands or the one near Aberdeen??)

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Nigg is the one by Aberdeen.
This must be Robert's father John:
from will index on scotland's people
John Davidson 22 Nov 1765 in Balnagash parish of Nigg

Jo

[Manchester Rambler]

Of course Margaret Davidson was the stepmother to Alexander Strachan Molison as William Maule Molison married Margaret after Alexander was born in about 1803.  Alexander's birth mother hasn't been found yet.

Jo

Well, yes - but given that we're unlikely to find ASM's birth mother in the time we have, I think we're justified in following his stepmother's line.  

And while we're looking at Davidsons, William Adams Davidson married WMM and Margaret Davidson's daughter Margaret Maria - is he a cousin of some sort?

Rambler

[Manchester Rambler]

Back in the info we had from Michael there was somethng about Alexander's daughter Eliza Wilson Molison being named after her aunt and the family having quite a bit to do with the Wilson family.  Robert James molison stayed with Dr Wilson in Huntley when at Aberdeen Uni.  (Can't remember who Robert James was though.)

I've been playing around with Molison/Strachan/Wilson combinations to no avail.  Was James Molison's daughter Jeanie W, Jeanie Wilson?

Jo

I'd forgotten the Wilson connection - could "aunt" Eliza Wilson be linked to the Marshall side of the family?  We don't know anything about Alexander's wife Augusta Jane Marshall.  I'd better go back and read Michael's info again, because I've no idea who Robert James Molison is...

Although if Jeanie W is Jeanie Wilson, that would mean the connection is with the Molisons, not the Marshalls, wouldn't it?  Hmmm..

Rambler