June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Uncle George Robertson married Mary Walker Gilkison on 18 July 1849 in Port Glasgow.  David Gilkison was visiting them in 1861.  he could have been in Glasgow working.

Jo

[Lesanne]

  Anybody found a link to sugary Robertsons Jam and the little badges.
               Lesanne.

[MaryA]

BD my apologies, you are in England, but I still don't think we will get a father's name on a death certificate.  Do ALL counties have OPR's?

JoT! great, you've confirmed what I wondered about earlier about that David Gilkison.

[Manchester Rambler]

Claude has been found - Colin Robertson is definitely interesting, but we're never going to be able to connect other Robertsons without finding George, James and John's father and mother(s).

Well done finding John's son George Douglas in 1871 - can we find him any later?

Annie - how are you suggesting the Canadian Mary M Robertson is linked to our family?  Sorry if I've missed something - I'm trying to catch up on the thread while wallpaper glue thickens...

Back soon  

Rambler

Jo - great find! Where did you get that from?

[Lesanne]

    Hey Guy's.  Been trawling this for Marion and James Robertson,
              I'm sure I saw a Marion get married to James.

              Anyway, they started the Marmalade and Jam factory in Scotland.

                       Before that he was in a thread mill.

                 So where does his cotton and sugar come from, I asked, and looked
                     for an importer from your Barbadas bits.
                       
                           I expect it's in there somewhere. 
 
                                        Lesanne.

                                 

[Joanna Tolhurst]

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.

Mary's siblings:
Elizabeth Chr 24 Aug 1816
David chr 4 June 1819
David chr 22 Aug 1817
John Wood Gilkison chr. 19 Oct 1824
Margaret chr 3 Apr 1827
Isabella chr 16 Apr 1829
Janet chr 29 Nov 1822

all from the IGI taken from parish records.

Jo

[MaryA]

Lesanne
Find them bringing coffee in too please, for Colin's partner's Jamaica Coffee House

Go Jo!

[Burrow Digger]

BD my apologies, you are in England, but I still don't think we will get a father's name on a death certificate.  Do ALL counties have OPR's?

Um no I'm not in England, and have never been there in my life - although my ancestors do come from Devon & Somerset  

Ok so no certificates. Seems to me like death certificates in NZ have far more detail on them than death certs from England. Must be the colonies wanting to keep that last link with the home country.

And you're right - OPRS stop at 1837 - and most of our searching is after that date.  

I just wish the GRO indexes gave a bit more info.  How many of us have decided to not purchase a cert coz we're not absolutely sure that it is the right one.

BD

[liverpool annie]

OK Here's what I believe ....

We are following TWO families here - it just so happens that they are both involved with the sea...........

This is the family we are supposed to be following -

1. Name Mary M. ROBERTSON
Relationship Head
Condition W
Gender F
Age 37
Occupation Annuitant
Birthplace Levihouse, Middlesex, England
Address 26 High Park St, Toxteth Park, Lancashire, England


This family is involved with Ship's Chandlers and Sail Making-

the other family is involved with Shipping (ownership and otherwise )

2. Name Mary M. ROBERTSON
Relationship Head
Condition W
Gender F
Age 60
Occupation Living On Income Investment In Shipping
Birthplace Canada
Address 26 Sussex Rd, North Meols, Lancashire, England



I hope now -  you understand where I am coming from ! - I believe we are definitly mixing and matching here - hence my postings...

Annie