June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Burrow Digger]

Liverpool Annie,

I'm battling to fit everything into the picture

It would be helpful (to me for one!) if you could explain where all these recent guys you've posted fit in to the family tree of our hero Allan.

Thanks a lot,

Judy

Chances are high that they probably dont fit in.  IMO. 

Maybe Annie just wants this thread to get to 1000 posts.  LOL    

BD

[Paul E]

And can I add we are now at 989 posts - just 11 more to go to reach 1000 posts!!   

BD

Well, Burrow Digger, this situation is being monitored closely!

This thread is already the all-time longest on Rootschat, and has reached number 5 in the list of threads viewed, at a staggering 10350 at 14:39 GMT (even if most of those were Annie and I clicking on to watch you experts at work!)   And all this within two weeks!   

This is one addictive soap opera!

Paul

[Manchester Rambler]

I've found a mildly famous Robertson, who's connected to Allan's tree:

Among Archibald Robertson and Janet Moody's children was John Robertson (1788) who married Betsey Morrison.  One of their sons was John Wallace Robertson (1825), and he married a shipowner's daughter named Catherine Barr Thompson.  They had 4 children:

John Howard Robertson - b. 20 Jul 1864, Glasgow
Henry Wallace Robertson - b. 27 Jan 1866, Row, Dunbarton
Margaret Christina Robertson - b. 18 Jan 1868, Row, Dunbarton
Archibald Aeneas Robertson - b. 3 Jul 1870, Row, Dunbarton

Archibald Aeneas was ordained in the Church of Scotland, and became the first person to climb all the Scottish mountains over 3,000' high - commonly called the Munros, after Sir Hugh Munro, who catalogued them.  He was also a keen photographer, and carted his heavy camera and equipment up peaks in Scotland and Europe.

Quite a few hits on Google (also with spelling Eneas), inc. http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst1364.html

Rambler

[CatOne]

Did you notice that the site mentioned by you, MR, is sponsored by The Robertson Trust, founded by The Robertson Sisters, Miss Agnes, Miss Elspeth and Miss Ethel. They inherited, from their father William, a "controlling interest in the Robertson & Baxter & Clyde Bonding Company now known as the Edrington Group"

http://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/history.htm

[liverpool annie]

Picture of a Robertson in Navarro County Texas WW1

http://www.rootsweb.com/~txnavarr/war/world_war_i/men_from_frost.htm

[Lesanne]

  Hi Annie,
     There's 2 Robertson's, 2 McGee's (that name's come up)
         and a Spencer, (someone posted that name ).

                          Lesanne.

[Paul E]

Did you notice that the site mentioned by you, MR, is sponsored by The Robertson Trust, founded by The Robertson Sisters, Miss Agnes, Miss Elspeth and Miss Ethel. They inherited, from their father William, a "controlling interest in the Robertson & Baxter & Clyde Bonding Company now known as the Edrington Group"

http://www.therobertsontrust.org.uk/history.htm

Nice find Cat...

The source of the Trust Fund's money is whisky:

Highland Distilleries Co Ltd was formed in 1887 through the merger of the Islay Distillery Co Ltd, owners of the Bunnahabhain Distillery, Islay, Argyll & Bute, Scotland, and William Grant & Co, owners of the Glenrothes-Glenlivit Distillery, Rothes, Moray, Scotland. Capital was raised through sale to the public of 13,340 ordinary £5 shares and 230 £100 debentures. From the outset, the company shared offices at 48 West Nile St, Glasgow, Scotland, with Robertson & Baxter, whisky merchants. Relationships between the two firms were very close and they had many directors in common.

In 1892, Highland Distilleries Co Ltd acquired the Glenglassaugh Distillery at Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In order to fund the purchase the company issued a further £13,500 of debentures. In 1898, the chairman and founding director , W A Robertson, died. Following a fire at Glenrothes-Glenlivit Distillery the firm was short of stock and in 1898 acquired the Tamdhu-Glenlivit Distillery in exchange for 5,500 shares. In 1905, a further three of the founding directors died, William Grant, Robert Dick and James Ford.

From http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03052002.html

Not sure whether we've had a William Robertson yet, and therefore whether this family connects...

Paul

[Lesanne]

   Hey Guys,
                          Only 3 more to go!!!
   Hope we get Music and Graphic fireworks to celebrate.   

                                             Lesanne.   
                                               

[Manchester Rambler]

Another Leckie Ewing - and by a nice little coincidence he takes us back to where the April Challenge began!

John Leckie Ewing (son of William Leckie Ewing and Eleanora McFarlane) married Anna Maria Watson in Glasgow on 27 Oct 1864.  They had a son William Leckie Ewing, b. 17 Nov 1865 in Sale, Cheshire. (IGI)

Here they are in 1871, living in Chorlton on Medlock, Salford:

John Leckie Ewing  Head  37  Commission Agent  b. Glasgow
Anna M L Ewing  Wife  30  b. Glasgow
William L Ewing  Son  5  b. Sale Moor, Cheshire
Frances K L Ewing  Dau  1  Hazel Grove, Cheshire
James G L Ewing  Son  1m  Manchester
(4 servants)

RG10/3990 - Folio 141 - Pg 13

Rambler