June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[MaryA]

Poor Jo, I'd share my bottle of paracetomol except it seems to be empty.  But a nice bit of research there.

[alcrighton]

Although nobody has yet responded whether they think the Johnsons I found in 1861 are Charles wife Alice, it seems as though it could well be the family, so I'll be trying to continue these through 1881-1901 and see what we come up with.  

There's someone by the name of Johnson on the Ancestry message boards who has a Claude and Kezia in their tree.  Could this be the missing link that ties the May and June challenges together? 

[liverpool annie]

Excuse me Mary - are you and Paul E related 

Claude will be found - but he's playing games with me........

I swear I've been everywhere - sounds like a good title for a song huh

but I'll get him..............................

Annie

[alcrighton]

Although nobody has yet responded whether they think the Johnsons I found in 1861 are Charles wife Alice, it seems as though it could well be the family, so I'll be trying to continue these through 1881-1901 and see what we come up with.  

There's someone by the name of Johnson on the Ancestry message boards who has a Claude and Kezia in their tree.  Could this be the missing link that ties the May and June challenges together? 

There's also a Kezia Best living at 8 Claude Road Camberwell in the 1881 census.  Things are just getting stranger and stranger 

[Joanna Tolhurst]

Check out http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/100men/gm34.htm

Very interesting article from 'memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men' on William Leckie Ewing father to Jane Fielding visiting our Robertsons.

Must go and make my boys some food; makes a change me hogging the computer.  they just think I'm mad

Jo

[MaryA]

There's an old Beatles song that goes "I'll get you, I'll get you in the end, Yes I will, I'll get you in the eeeennnnd Oh Yeah!!!"  Paul always thought Kezia and Claude had eloped together!

Anyway I'm continuing with Charles children in 1881 and I think I mentioned previously that Lilias had been farmed out to a school in Cheshire Rock Lane, Tattenhall RG11/3552 Chester Tattenhall Folio 111 Page 30 the Head is Jane Birch.

Well here are three more of them in Ockham School, Kingsley, Hampshire
Head Anna M Lees
Agnes Robertson – 14 (about 1867) Herts Bushey Scholar
Alice Robertson – 29 (about 1852) London Middlesex – this actually says 20 not 29 Assistant Matron
Helen Robertson – 17 (about 1864) London Middlesex Scholar

Still working on Charles Jnr and Jessie, but it would seem as though Charles and Alice have either popped their clogs or gone abroad?  So still keep your eyes out for any emigrants please while you are looking for others.

Mary

[Boongie Pam]

Just to let you know that Michael the descendent of Alexander Strachan Molison has sent me a 19 page word doc which is the descendency of Alexander.

To post or not to post?

I'm not trying to tease  just don't know if it spoils the game a bit?

I'll go through it and post stuff that I don't think we have got.

Is that the best thing to do?

Pam
 

[Boongie Pam]

The theory of Alexander's birth from Michael...

We do not know who his mother was, but we certainly know his father to be William Maule Molison. 

He was the first born of his father who was 21 years old when ASM was born, and William’s next child was some 12 years later. 

ASM's closest association was with James Molison his younger brother.  It is likely that ASM was illegitimate.  It is impossible to prove, but the absence of an earlier marriage strongly suggests this to be the case.

Also, it was common to simply add the father's surname at a later date.  The absence of any Strachans in the family up until that time, and it being a common name around Aberdeen, the mother of ASM was probably a Strachan, and the Molison was added later

[MaryA]

Oh this gets exciting, I think I would prefer just to know if we have gone majorly wrong anywhere.... and to know if there are any preferably Robertsons to be found nearer the 1900+ era.

I also have some news, but I'll wait a little while until Pam has done rather than plonking it in the middle.  (half an hour be enough?)