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Re: mystery family need help
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 17 February 13 12:44 GMT (UK) »
looking at the 1861 census I have found two Robert William Andersons the correct age thinking maybe missed out first name because as you can see William was engine keeper too big a coincidence just need to work out who Christina is now.

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« Reply #19 on: Sunday 17 February 13 12:48 GMT (UK) »
I've sent the death record to you

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« Reply #20 on: Sunday 17 February 13 12:51 GMT (UK) »
From the info given on her death record this looks like her marriage

1884 ANDERSON ROBERT and NISBET MARGARET at HAMILTON /LANARK

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« Reply #21 on: Sunday 17 February 13 12:58 GMT (UK) »
that would fit because Nisbet was my great aunts middle name and no one knew where that came from. thank you so much.


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« Reply #22 on: Sunday 17 February 13 16:25 GMT (UK) »
I spoke to my uncle with this information he said apparently my great grandmother was furious when her husband named my great aunt after his mother.

My uncle remembers asking his grandmother(my great grandmother Jeannie) about the family and being told his grandfathers mother (William, mother) was an evil harlot. nothing but a whore.  apparently when her husband William died Jeannie destroyed the Anderson family bible and all papers with regards to her husbands family.

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« Reply #23 on: Sunday 17 February 13 17:16 GMT (UK) »
I can understand him getting his father's name wrong if he was young when Robert died but it is a mystery how he got his mother's name wrong too