Alison Thomson

[majm]

No I haven’t looked for her because she’s not my relations but I’ve got Alice with parents Daniel and Elizabeth age 4 on the 1911 census
Sorry just looked at parish records for my great aunt and it’s Allison Watson Thompson born 3/1 1907 in California

Would that be California, as in the village in Scotland.   Not California as in the state in the USA.

JM edit to sort syntax.

[Isabel Robertson]

Yes. My cousin was very disappointed when she discovered you couldn’t get a bus from our wee village (Stenhousemuir) to California in America. She thought it was the American one that her mum went to every week

[majm]

Aghhhh .... So you are looking for THOMPSON, not THOMSON ..

Are  you sure your great aunt migrated?  If so, are you sure she came to Australia?

JM

[CaroleW]

Suggest you have a look at the 1983 death in Falkirk for Alice Watson Thomson aged 73 mmn Watson.  She may never have married

[majm]

Back in the Opening Post, Isabel mentions that her great aunt travelled with Michael SHANNON on the Diogenes. 

From the National Archives of Australia's incoming passengers per the Diogenes,  Mr M Shannon's proposed address was to be c/o Smith, Brisbane St, Ipswich West, in Queensland.  This was the SAME address as for Miss A THOMPSON.  They are listed among the passengers travelling third class, ticketed to Sydney New South Wales.    There were many passengers who were ticketed to Brisbane, but not these two. 

These records were lodged at Albany, Western Australia, the first port of call in Australia for that voyage.   Several of the commercial websites have the images of those records.   


JM

My great aunt Alison Thomson(18)

She is Alice Thomson on the passenger list and no apparent link between her and Michael Shannon - they have separate passenger numbers

Her last address is shown as Rosscandle Cottage California Falkirk?  She is shown as a domestic

Shannons address was Main St Polmant?

JM

[majm]

1925 Queensland Electoral Roll, MORETON, polling Ipswich
There are, of course, many with the surname SMITH at that polling place.  The following are those which mention both Brisbane St, and West Ipswich.   Brisbane Street was a continuation of Brisbane Road.

Ernest Isaiah SMITH, Brisbane St, West Ipswich, blacksmith
John Richard Alan SMITH, Brisbane St, West Ipswich, labourer
Sarah SMITH, Brisbane St, West Ipswich, home duties
Helen SMITH, Brisbane St, West Ipswich, home duties

There is nothing on the roll to give you any indication that any of the above people have any connection with each other.  The roll in 1925 does not include the street number in Brisbane Street.

JM

[gaffy]

She is Alice Thomson on the passenger list and no apparent link between her and Michael Shannon - they have separate passenger numbers

Her last address is shown as Rosscandle Cottage California Falkirk?  She is shown as a domestic

Shannons address was Main St Polmant?

As an aside, I wonder should that be Mosscandle?  Reason being, there is a story in the Falkirk Herald of November 20, 1926 about an omnibus owner not having a proper licence and at one point, it mentions 3 of the passengers:

'Robert Thomson, miner, Mosscandle Cottage, California, his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Sneddon Watson or Thomson, and Elizabeth White or Thomson, California, spoke to having boarded accused's 'bus while it was inside Haston's garage in Cow Wynd.'   

I don't understand the reference (to being the wife of Robert), but it might suggest a connection to the Alice Thomson on the passenger list.

Edited to add: I have also just found a death notice and an 'in memoriam' notice for an Elizabeth Watson Thomson who died on 4 June 1941 at Mosscandle Cottage, California, described as the wife of Robert Thomson.

[gaffy]

... I don't understand the reference (to being the wife of Robert), but it might suggest a connection to the Alice Thomson on the passenger list.

I get it now, Daniel Thomson died in 1913 and his widow Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Watson and Elizabeth Sneddon) re-married in 1923... to a Robert Thomson.

So it looks like Alice in that passenger list is the one to chase.

[majm]

Great finds gaffy.

JM