June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[liverpool annie]

Claude Robertson/Robinson

I have looked everywhere for him on numerous emigration lists  - I'm wondering if he went to the Boer War .......
I've checked all kinds of casualty lists etc
CWG  - Honour Rolls -  Memorials  - checking with the Admiralty waiting for reply checked Army and Navy pension lists  - starting to go through tombstones checked Texas up and down - wondering whether to go through the Dunbar line....... tried Australia -  tried Canada - got feelers out - but no reply -  except a few negatives - but I'm still trucking.....

Annie

[JAP]

Paul E,

My absolute favourite post on this incredibly lengthy thread has to be the brilliant photo of the backs of the warehouses fronting/backing on to the Thames posted by JonathanW.

Desirable residences, eh!

I hate to think what one would have to pay to buy one of those these days.  Such places often seem to appear in BBC series and in films.  Wow!

JAP

[Paul E]

You're right JAP - brilliant photos from Jonathan.  Someday perhaps we'll be able to take a river cruise past these same properties.

cheers

Paul

[Lesanne]

  Good Morning people.
      You have been going some, all this info, well done.

           I feel a member of the Cheer Leaders now having been away.
                But helping you all along, with my notes of encouragement. 

         Yea, yea, yea, go, go, go, 
                       
                         Have a good day. Lesanne.

[liverpool annie]

1881

Is this George Robertson and Mary Walker's son Hugh??

Name Hugh E. ROBERTSON Relationship Head Condition M Gender M Age 55 Occupation Shipwright Birthplace Scotland Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire

Name Margaret ROBERTSON Relationship Wife Condition M Gender F Age 51 Occupation – Birthplace Ireland Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire

Name Mary C. ROBERTSON Relationship Dau Condition U Gender F Age 12 Occupation Scholar Birthplace Liverpool, Lancashire Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire


Annie

[Paul E]

Just thought I'd let you know ...

I thought I would print out this thread for reference.

Before I set the printer running, thought I'd better do a 'print preview'.

For those who are able to access a stationery supplier (maybe John Robertson will help out!) - the thread at the moment is 160 pages long!

Paul

[JAP]

Gee Paul E,

I had intended to print out parts of the thread.

But my printer suddenly decided to die.

Perhaps it knew what might be coming!

; )

JAP

[Manchester Rambler]

Is this George Robertson and Mary Walker's son Hugh??

Name Hugh E. ROBERTSON Relationship Head Condition M Gender M Age 55 Occupation Shipwright Birthplace Scotland Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire

Annie

No - the only definite Hugh Robertson we have so far is Hugh Moody Robertson, b. Limehouse 1828, son of George Robertson Sr and Mary.

Unless I've missed someone, George Robertson Jr and Mary Walker Gilkison had George Wood Robertson (c1851), David Robertson (c1853), Charles Moody Robertson (c1855) and John Wood Robertson (c1857).

Rambler

[JAP]

Is this George Robertson and Mary Walker's son Hugh??

Name Hugh E. ROBERTSON Relationship Head Condition M Gender M Age 55 Occupation Shipwright Birthplace Scotland Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire

Name Margaret ROBERTSON Relationship Wife Condition M Gender F Age 51 Occupation – Birthplace Ireland Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire

Name Mary C. ROBERTSON Relationship Dau Condition U Gender F Age 12 Occupation Scholar Birthplace Liverpool, Lancashire Address Upper Stanhope St 5 Court No 7, Toxteth Park, Lancashire
Annie

Annie,

Please clarify!!

Firstly, what date is the census?

Secondly are you referring to a George ROBERTSON and a Mary WALKER (or a Mary Walker GILKISON)?

Thirdly, where did Hugh E ROBERTSON come from?  Where is the birth of a Hugh E ROBERTSON to a George ROBERTSON and and a Mary WALKER or a Mary Walker GILKISON?

Sorry if I've missed something.

JAP
PS: ROBERTSON is a dreadfully common name ...