June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Forgot to say that was George in 1841.  Also in 1841 from same site:
Piece: SCT1841/266 Place: Nigg-Kincardineshire Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Nigg Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 1 Page: 1
Address: Balnagask House

 

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    Surname   First name(s)   Sex   Age   Occupation   Where Born   Remarks   
    DAVIDSON   Catharine   F   57   Independent    Kincardineshire         
    MITCHEL   Rachel   F   20   Female Servant    Outside Census County (1841)         
    MATHESON   Margaret   F   26   Female Servant    Kincardineshire 

Katherine was a daughter of Robert and Christian.
Jo

[Manchester Rambler]

I feel rather inadequate,
but, I'll post this so you can eliminate the potential siblings of the Hero, Allan....
Jas Robertson married Mary Marshall
13/6/1870. Dunbar, East Lothian.
They had Marion Bathgate Robertson 1871.
and John William Robertson 1873.
Margaret F Robertson. 1876?

in the 1881c, They are still up there.. and I feel you can forget about this branch.

kenjo

Kenjo - that's very useful, because we'd queried Marion and John as possible siblings, but never confirmed them or ruled them out definitively.  Now we can be sure it's a different family.

Rambler

[CatOne]

Did we have this Robertson/Boyd connection?

Isabella Robertson Boyd b.21/09/1821 Maxwelltown, Abbey (Paisley) Renfrew - Parents Isabella Robertson (b.1799) and Robert Boyd (b.c1795) (Isabella and Robert married c.1820)

Isabella Robertson Boyd married John Taylor 28/04/1848 Abbey Paisley

Their children -
Thomas Taylor 1849
Alexander Robertson Taylor 1851
John Taylor 1852
Janet Neilson Taylor 1856

Still trying to work out if Isabella "belongs" to any of our known Robertsons, surely she must do coming from Paisley.....

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Think this may well be 2 of William maule Molison and Margaret Davidson's girls in 1841:

Piece SCT1841/168 Aberdeen Gilcomston, Chapel Street
Moleson Margt age 15 Independent born Aberdeenshire
Moleson Catherine age 15 Independent born Aberdeenshire
Davidson Ann age 15 female servant born Aberdeenshire

Margaret was born 1822 and Catherine 1823 both in Fraserburgh Aberdeenshire.  margaret married in 1851 in Old Machar Aberdeen.  Catherine married sometime before 1856.
Just coincidence that their servant was a Davidson
Jo

[Manchester Rambler]

I think you're right, Jo.  Wonder where their parents were?

Rambler

[Joanna Tolhurst]

According to the Davidson grave inscription at Nigg William Maule Molison died July 1832 but Margaret his wife and the girls mother didn't die until aug 1877 so she must be somewhere in 1841. Chapel Street is in the city centre but mainly small shops now. Pity there isn't a number to the house in teh 1841 census.

[MaryA]

Just come back from a week's heatwave in sunny Wales  to find this overwhelming amount of information, one thing just seems to lead on to another doesn't it.  I particularly loved the bit about Saltoun in South Africa, it sounded like one of those old black and white films was all about him.

Well done to everyone!

I notice the name Wood in the last couple of pages and just wanted to remind you that we started out with Allan's cousins, George, Charles and John were all "Wood" Robertsons.

Uncle George's wife Mary Walker Gilkison chr. 3 July 1821 in Port Glasgow.  Parents were David Gilkison and Elizabeth WOOD.  Hence the Wood in George's children's names.

And just to confirm that I have had no response from the John Robertson from Jumbrella and I don't see that BD has posted a mention of him either.

Mary

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Margaret Maria Molison, daughter of William Maule Molison and Margaret Davidson, married William Adam Davidson 1851.

In 1881 she's in Essex at Stownydown Walthamstow:
John B Manson head 37  Agent b. Aberdeenshire
Margaret L Manson wife 29 b Croyden
Margaret M Davidson mother in law 59 B Aberdeenshire
Maria Adamson visitor unm 36 b Kincardine
Katherine Adamson visitor unmar 31 b Kincardine
Maria Laing serv unmar 21 b Glasgow
Margaret Laurie serv unmar 29 b Kincardine

The 2 Adamson ladies are daughters of Catherine Molison, Margaret' sister who married James Adamson.
Jo

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Although a Davidson family unlinked to the Davidsons, William Maule Molison married into, the website below gives a wonderful insight to the life that the family may well have led in the early 1800s.  We have 2 of the Molison girls (step sisters to Alexander Strachan Molison) living in Aberdeen in 1841, not far from Union Street and Bon Accord Terrace mentioned in the background to the journals.  In the journals Anne mentions going to Nigg church.  Most likely they would have met at sometime in what looks likely to be the same social circle.

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~missannedavidson/page7.html

Jo