Donald Robertson 1867-1945, Saskatchewan

[yvoeliz2]

I am looking for any information post 1906 on my great uncle Donald Robertson, born about 1867 in Scotland, who emigrated to Canada in 1886.  I have found him in the 1891, 1901 and 1906 censuses. He is a farmer in Assiniboia East, Saskatchewan in 1906 and appears to have stock.  I have found that he was apportioned 2 parcels of land and he seems to have made it work.  However after 1906 I can find no record of him.  The last finding that I have is of a gravestone in Wapella, Melville Census Divion, Saskatchewan, which gives the dates 1867 to 1945.  The headstone says 'In Loving Memory' and 'At Rest', so someone must have cared for him, although I believe he was not married, certainly not in 1906. This may or may not be him, but it could fit.

I would be grateful if anyone could give me any information from this area in Saskatchewan.

[rosie17]

Where in Scotland was he born and do you have the names of his parent's ?

[Rosinish]

May be worth looking on 1871 & 1881 census to find any siblings who may also have emigrated?

Annie

[DonM]

He may have sold out in SK and headed elsewhere.  A single farmer on a quarter section would find it difficult to manage on his own.

There is a chap in the 1911 Census in Thunder Bay, a single farmer, age seems to fit.  Or it could be him in the 1921 Census in BC at an institution. 

There were a lot of Donald Robertson's, can you post his parents please, finding a death without parents is impossible to identify the correct Donald. 

Thanks,

Don

[yvoeliz2]

Many thanks for your replies.
His father was Donald Robertson and his mother was Elizabeth Petrie.  He was born in Kirkmichael in Perthshire, Scotland on 2 April 1867.

I don't know of any other siblings that emigrated.  We were only told of Donald in the family.

Very grateful for your help.

[Rosinish]

I don't know of any other siblings that emigrated.  We were only told of Donald in the family.

Hi,

My reasoning behind asking about siblings on the 1871/1881 was to find out names/yrs of birth of siblings which through the channels could be eliminated/supposed as having emigrated.

Basically to find out if you have the whereabouts of any siblings up to death in Scotland?

Donald has a gravestone so it's quite possible there were other family members around if he was unmarried.

Annie

[Jacquie in Canada]

He may have sold out in SK and headed elsewhere.  A single farmer on a quarter section would find it difficult to manage on his own.

There is a chap in the 1911 Census in Thunder Bay, a single farmer, age seems to fit.  Or it could be him in the 1921 Census in BC at an institution. 

The only single farmer in Thunder Bay that I saw on the 1911 census was born in Ontario.
The BC death registration for Donald in the institution indicates he was in the gas manufacturing business. His father was listed as Donald but his mother as Mary.

Of course, living on the land alone doesn't mean he didn't have hired help.

Jacquie

[yvoeliz2]

Thanks once again for this useful informaiton.

I can see how a relative could have erected the headstone on the grave. 

Donald's siblings were:

Alexander (Sandy) Robertson b 1868
Emily (Amelia) Robertson b 1871
David Robertson b 1872
Elizabeth Anderson Robertson (my grandmother) b 1874 d 1964 in London
James Robertson b 1877
John Robertson b 1880 (living in Glasgow in 1904 as he registered his father's death and in London in 1911, when he was a witness at my grandmothers marriage).

Unfortunately I am having great trouble tracking down records in Scotland as there is limited information given on genealogy websites and there are a large number of Robertsons with the same names.

Many thanks again.
Yvonne

[*Sandra*]

1871 Census Kirkmichael, Perthshire.

Donald Robertson   33  Shepherd.
Elizabeth Robertson   31
Donald Robertson   4
Alexander Robertson   2

Birth of Donald - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQRL-5LZ

Birth of Alexander - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQRL-1HC

Sandra