June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Paul E]

Wow - another great days/nights work from all sides of the world! Pam and JoT, especially!

Keziahemm - were there any contact details for the Orr Ewing ink?  Might be worth an e-mail to the newspaper.

Paul

[Lesanne]

 Good morning people,
  I notice the boarding school for Robert J Molison b1869 Holloway, is Lancing.
        I take it this Lancing college, Sussex.
            Worthing is about 5 mls away (Broadwater and all).

                              I'm often at Lancing and can take a look for any
                    other member of the family that boarded
           at the "college" as well.
                                          Do we have any other names?   

                               Lesanne.       
                                   

[Lesanne]

Found this snippet from Austraiana Vol 9 No 2,
   
              The Bridge Street Explosion of 1866.    A.Wayne Johnson.

               Glass plate negative in Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney, of aftermath of 4 March 1866 explosion destroying the premises of Molison and Black, 17-19 Bridge Street, Sydney, used to store goods. Board of Inquiry found the cause was the Spontaneous explosion of 100lb nitroglycerin sample, imported from Hamburg, 19 February 1866.

                       Some sample !!   Lesanne. 

[Manchester Rambler]

Great work here everybody - spent yesterday transporting older daughter to regional final of her gym competition, including car trouble on the way back, so haven't had time to catch up yet. 

Some of the Orr Ewings are descendants of Allan's aunt Helen Robertson, who married James Ewing.  The Orr-Ewings (with hyphen) seem to be the descendants of James' brother Sir Archibald.

Love the exploding nitroglycerin sample!

Rambler

[JAP]

Good morning people,
I notice the boarding school for Robert J Molison b1869 Holloway, is Lancing.  I take it this Lancing college, Sussex.  Worthing is about 5 mls away (Broadwater and all).  I'm often at Lancing and can take a look for any other member of the family that boarded at the "college" as well.
Do we have any other names?   
Lesanne.   

Lesanne, the 1881 transcription on FamilySearch is pretty dreadful ('Colligate School'!) but there's obviously a brother of Robert's - transcribed as Salton MOLIS...!  His forename is clearly Saltoun on the image though the end of his surname is a bit messy.
So we now have two of the sons of James MOLISON ('half-brother' of "our" Alexander Strachan MOLISON) boarding at Lancing - one b Sydney and one (after they'd escaped the fallout of the great explosion!!) b Holloway:
Lancing Sussex
Collegiate School
Boarders include "our":
Saltoun MOLISON, Boarder, 16, Scholar, b Sydney NSW
We hadn't picked him up before due to the rotten transcription
And his brother
Robert MOLISON, Boarder, 12, Scholar, b Holloway
We've had him previously - see my post on page 48 for this and for the birth of Saltoun and others in Sydney

JAP
PS: I had a friend here in Australia who, as a boy, used regularly to travel alone to and from Athens to Lancing in the 1930s to board at the College.  Boat to Marseilles, train to Calais, cross the channel, train to Sussex ...

[Manchester Rambler]

The "Australian" Molisons (James and Isabella's children) only seem to show up on the 1881 census.  Did they go back to Australia afterwards?  We're missing one of the children, Allan D (b.1860) in 1881 - where is he?  (He may have died young, of course.)

Both William Maule Molison and his son James named a child Saltoun, which is normally a surname.  Any chance this was WMM's mother's maiden name?

Rambler

[CatOne]

Here another Orr Ewing family on the 1891 census (dont think we've had these before) -

Kelemore House, Shellingford, Berkshire
John Orr Ewing 32 Living on own means (retired army) Scotland
Ellen C Orr Ewing 32 Middlesex London
Archibald J 6 Middlesex London
Edith G 4 Ireland
Olive 3 Ireland
Hilda M Barrington Visitor 16 Bucks Westbury
Florence M Duffield 26 Berks Marcham
Lilly Kenard 7 Middlesex London
Geraldine Dawn 29 Norfolk Broughton Castle (the only Broughton Castle I can find is in Banbury, Oxon)
Charles J Duffield 28 Berkshire Marcham
+ 10 servants !!! wealthy family!!
RG12/976 Folio 7 Page 8

[Paul E]

Hi Cat

Re the Orr Ewings in 1891, wonder if it might be "Kylemore House", as if so it could be named after the Kylemore House in Connemara, Ireland (I notice some of the children were born Ireland)?

cheers

Paul

[JAP]

<snip>
Both William Maule Molison and his son James named a child Saltoun, which is normally a surname.  Any chance this was WMM's mother's maiden name?
Rambler

Hi Rambler, I thought the naming of the earlier Saltoun MOLISON (b 1820 in Fraserburgh) might well have been linked to (i.e. was perhaps in recognition of) the Fraserburgh aristocracy - and that then it was used again because they liked it ...
See first post on page 49.  A Fraser lot in the Fraserburgh region (probably coming from the Lowlands -  East Lothian - previously) became the Lords of Saltoun (the current Lady Saltoun is Head of Clan Fraser).

But there may well be some closer and meaningful connexion!
JAP