June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[emilysiobhan]

I think I may have found another Robertson..ship chandler...

using the 1837 online search for robertson and ship chandler there was George and:

Robertson Colin D aged about 37 reg. district West Derby Ship chandler

I don't have access to the image, but I think this could be:

Rg9/2724 Lancashire
Colin D Robertson bn 1830 XX, Middlesex head
Elizabeth J Robertson b 1827 Middlesex wife
Hannah M Robertson b.1855, Middlesex daughter
George Robertson b. 1850 " son
Henry D Robertson b. 1855 " son

Could someone have a look at the image maybe?

I was wondering if it might be a possible brother to George/James/John?

[Biker]

Emily here's the full record ...

1861

2 Richmond Terr, Darby? Road, Linacre, Lancs (reg dist: West Derby)
 
Colin D Robertson 37 London, Middlesex, England Head 
Elizabeth J Robertson 37 London, Middlesex, England Wife 
George Robertson 11  London, Middlesex, England Son 
Hannah M Robertson 6 London, Middlesex, England Daughter 
Henry D Robertson 4 London, Middlesex, England Son 
Emma Dale 28 London, Middlesex, England Sister-in-law
Jane Cope abt 1837  St Helens, Lancashire, England Servant 
Caroline S Pearson abt 1835  Rochester, Kent, England Servant   

Colin is a Ship Chandler

   RG9/2724
Folio:    19 
Page:    35


Jonathan

[emilysiobhan]

Another possible child for Allan and Charlotte:

Births Sep 1909
ROBERTSON  Richard Dale     Toxteth Park  8b 219

Rambler

I just looked up the Colin Robertson family in 1881, and Colin appears to be dead but living in marylebone, London with

Elizabeth (head) widow
Henry D (son)
George (son)
is an Emma Dale (sister)....I wonder if this has a connection to Robertson born 1909 in Toxteth?

[emilysiobhan]

Thanks Jonathon for looking up Colin.....I wonder if he is a missing brother?

As the gap between George and James and John suggests to me that there ought to be some other Robertsons around somewhere..

[emilysiobhan]

Whoever Colin Douglas Robertson may be....

He married an Elizabeth Jane Dale 30 Sep 1848 St Thomas, Stepney
(extracted IGI)

parents weren't listed unfortunately...

[Biker]

"Colin appears to be dead but living in marylebone"  

Emily, that's a possibility, but how to verify it though? Has anyone asked for/done a 1851 lookup?

The Stepney marriage looks encouraging.

J  

[emilysiobhan]

"Colin appears to be dead but living in marylebone"  

Emily, that's a possibility, but how to verify it though? Has anyone asked for/done a 1851 lookup?

The Stepney marriage looks encouraging.

J  

You think it's possible that there are dead people living in Marylebone?

I must have been living away from Britain too long.....

I don't know that anyone has looked the Robertsons up in 1851 or 1841....probably we'd need 1841 if we want to find George (and maybe Colin) living with mum and dad.

I think there's only an incomplete surname index for London 1851?

Emily

[Manchester Rambler]

I'm very interested in Colin - he sounds as if he ought to belong to "our" Robertson family.  He fits the pattern: ships chandler, moves from London to Liverpool late 1850's...  His birth might also be a little easier to find - not quite as many Colins as Georges and Jameses!  Married to a Dale, too - we keep falling over the same families.

That means Richard Dale Robertson (1909) could also be from this line.

Jonathan - your info from the Times is great!  Who can fit James Molison into the family?  Surely he belongs....?

Will catch up later, but we're supposedly wallpapering the kitchen this weekend...

Rambler

[Chattykathy]

 1881 Census   Rock House, Charlton Next Woolwick, Kent

@ schools w/Governess, other female students, servants

Charlotte E. Robertson      b. 1866  Birth @ Sea

Laura Margaret Robertson b. 1865  Madras ( assuming India)


kathy