Alexander Robertson 1865

[phillie]

I've hit a brick wall with this one and people tell me there's no hope of tracing him. Alexander Robertson was my great grandfather I have his marriage cert which tells me he was born in Aberdeen and his mother's name was Christina Robertson, father unknown. He was married in Motherwell to SarahAnn Taylor and they had six children, five living. except for my grandmother Christina, who went to Australi and her brother Leonard who went to America, I know nothing of the others, although I think Lawerance (strange spelling)may have gone to New Zealand. There was also a Sarah and Hector. If anyone can give me any hints on this I would be very gratefull. 

[Millmoor]

Hi

There is a baptism showing on family search for Alexander Robertson 26 Oct 1864 Old Machar Aberdeen with only the mother named as Christina Robertson. Could this be him? If so you should be able to obtain his birth cert from the Scotlands People site ( a credits only site).

Re the others mentioned perhaps if you gave some birthdates etc  it might help in searching.

Cheers

William

[phillie]

Thank you William, I tried to get onto Family Search earlier but even though I had just registered, they told me my pass word wasn't correct. It does sound like it could be him. I'll look up the dates for the children and post again.

[Millmoor]

Hi

You shouldn't have to use a password for family search (google family search and go for the first entry in the web list and you should be able to access).

I think I have found Alexander in the 1891 and 1901 census but not in 1871 and 1881. The only possibles I could see were one listed as a nephew in 1871 and one shown as brother in law in 1881.

There are a couple of trees on anc*y with information about this family. Might be worth trying to contact the owners.

William

[phillie]

Thanks William, one of those trees is probably mine and a lot of the others have cherry picked from my tree  I have lots of info from his marriage onward, though not of his children, it's before that that I want to find out about. The fact that they were married in Motherwell was confusing as well, as they didn't seem to live there. The address seems to be of a private house and of course could have been the Manse, but it all seems to have been re-developed now. I've been trying to find an old map of the area from Lanarkshire FHS but they all seem to be modern, but only started that today, so maybe I haven't looked that far.

[Millmoor]

For old maps try the national library of Scotland site. It really is very good with tremendous definition.

Cheers

William

[phillie]

Thanks again William, I will give that site a go. You asked for dates for the children as of the 1922 census, Leonard was 15, Christina 12 and Hector 6, Lawerance was 9 on the 1901 census and Sarah was 7. I know that Leonard went to America ans eventually died there in 1965 (I think). Lawerance I think went to New Zealand and of course my grandmother Christina, Australia, I don't know what happened to Sarah or Hector, in fact I only discovered him this week. I'm wondering if the spelling of Lawerance's name is correct, or if that was just a mistake on the census collectors part.