Fresh eyes needed

[colvin]

Thanks to all who replied to my post re James Whitby and for the lovely photographs of Isle Farm.  I am now able to fit James into the family tree.    I expect the lodger was a brother or, perhaps, a cousin of Thomas.   I am going to follow that up.

Lodger, I would love to have any information you have on the Colvin family buried at Cambusnethan.   There was a big family of them, one of whom was my G Grandfather, Terence, who died in 1895.   His first wife was Mary Andrew who died in 1886 and his second wife was Jessie McKnight, who died in 1922.   I have a cutting from the local newspaper, giving a glowing obituary for her.  She was a prominent figure and a schoolteacher.   Her daughter, Margaret, also a schoolteacher, died in 1932,   If you have any information on the above, I would be pleased to receive it.

I now look forward to someone able to help me with the other missing ancestors.

Anne

[sage]

Hi Anne,

I have dabbled in the McGhie, McGhee, McGee families in Cambusnethan so have done some searches online via ScotsP and I can tell you that a John McGhee died in Cambusnethan aged 74 in 1961 with a notation of his other name as 'McGee'.  If your 1911 search for him was limited to Cambusnethan only then you wouldn't necessarily find him if he was working in another locality at the time.  It's not to say he left Scotland's shores even though that's a possibility too. 

Regards, Sage

[Lodger]

Here's what I have for the Colvin family in Cambusnethan Cemetery, Wishaw.
All dates are of interment. (My records end at 1917).

JAMES COLVIN, Overtown, aged 11 years.
Parents - John Colvin & Catherine O'Neil.
Interred in Public Ground, 18th February 1868.

MARY COLVIN, housewife, Wishaw, aged 25 years, married.
Parents - James Andrew & Mary Moore.
Interred in plot C520, 19th February 1886.

MARY McGHIE, housewife, Wishaw, aged 32 years, married.
Parents - John Colvin & Catherine O'Neil.
interred in plot C465, 14th October 1890.

TERRENCE COLVIN, railway signalmen, Wishaw, aged 40 years, married.
Parents - John Colvin & Catherine O'Neil.
Interred in plot C520, 22nd March 1895.

[colvin]

Thanks, Sage.   I have spent lots or time and money on SP looking up John McGee (various spellings}, all over Scotland but have had no luck.   I remember my mother saying that her father had said they had a relative in America or Canada but knew nothing more.    I just wondered if this could be John McGee.   I have nothing else to go on.

Lodger.   Thank you for the interment notes on the Colvin family.   It is interesting to see that Terence is interred with his first wife, Mary, although his second wife is still alive.

Anne