Trying to find information on husband's grandparents and greatgrandparents

[Waipu]

Rodneycatt, I can only personal message you if you have at least 3 postings on Rootschat. Think you have only two.  If you reply to this you will have one more and then I can contact you. I am travelling from New Zealand to the UK next week and plan to be in New Pitsligo to look at graves.Would love to know more of husband's grandmother as he knows so little.

[Annette7]

Have just done some more checking on this and have found a tree on ancestry which shows the correct birthdate of 9/5/1889 for the Georgina Cooper who married Ernest Barclay, but states birthplace as New Pitsligo, not Old Machar.   It also shows the correct parents as George Cooper and Margaret Wood.

Georgina Barclay, nee Cooper (have seen copy of death certificate) died 31/3/1931 at Walkerville, Essex, Ontario and birthplace/parents agree.

However, what is worrying is that the tree owner attaches links to the 1891 and 1901 census BUT both these relate to Georgina R. Cooper, (illeg. dau. of Margaret Clark Cooper) who is with her maternal grandmother in 1891 and with her mother and stepfather in 1901!   The correct 1891 and 1901 census entries for Georgina Cooper born 9/5/1889 show her living with her parents and siblings.

Certainly the death dates for the 2 Georgina's are as follows:

Georgina Barclay, nee Cooper, born 9/5/1889 died 31/3/1931 Walkerville, Essex, Ontario (wife of Ernest Ross Barclay)

Georgina Ross Weir, nee Cooper (illeg. dau. of Margaret Clark Cooper) born 24/11/1890 died 2/6/1969 Fort Langley, British Colombia (wife of Orin Weir).

The 2 Georgina's born just a year apart in Aberdeen both ended up living in Canada, one on the east side, the other on the west.

I was just so concerned, rodneycatt, when you referred to your Georgina marrying Ernest Barclay when I knew that Georgina Ross Cooper, born 1889 illeg. dau. of Margaret Clark Cooper, had married Orin Weir.   Only you can know whether your Georgina died as Barclay 1969 in British Colombia or as Weir 1931 in Ontario.

(One things for sure, the owner of the ancestry tree has clearly confused the two).

Annette

 



   

[manawakian]

Got curious about the John Taylor who was named as Ida's uncle in the marriage notice I posted earlier.

On 9 Sep 1892 in Aberdeen John Taylor, 25, blacksmith, son of Alexander Taylor &  Jane Metcalf married Elizabeth Cooper, 25, daughter of George Cooper & Ann Corbet.

This couple and their children John, Ann C, Alexander & Mary A P are found in the 1901 Aberdeen census and with children John I, Annie, Mary & Frank in the 1911 Strathmore census.

I think it is obvious that Georgina Cooper wound up in Strathmore Alberta because her mother's sister Elizabeth was there before her.

[Waipu]

Thank you Annette and manawakian. Georgina Weir is definitely buried at Fort Langley. I have a photo of her gravestone and that of her husband Orin. Always interesting to know why people move from one place to another.

[manawakian]

In the 1871 census at 120 High St, Tyrie, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire are found Ann Cooper, 27, ploughman's wife and her 3 daughters Ann 7, Elisabeth 3 & Margeret 0.  No sign of George, he must have been off ploughing somewhere.

[manawakian]

In the 1881 census at 141 High St, Tyrie, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire are found George Cooper, 41, farm servant, his wife Ann, 37, their children, Ann 16, Maggie 10, George 6, Joan 2.  There is also a child less than one year old named Mary B Reid who is shown as a granddaughter?  Elisabeth is missing from this household.

[manawakian]

Found Elizabeth Cooper, 13, in 1881 census at Farm House Broom Hill, Tyrie, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire at the home of her uncle John Corbett.  Note when Elizabeth married John Taylor her mother's maiden name was given as Corbet.

[manawakian]

On 27 Mar 1864 at Broomhill New Pitsligo, George Cooper the illegitimate son of George Cooper and Ann Young married Ann Corbet the daughter of William Corbet and Isabella Meldrum.