Heinrich and Margaret Watson

[Midlad]

I have just discovered that a distant relative of mine Margaret Watson married a Heinrich Eggers a ships captain in Falkirk Stirlingshire Scotland in 1854 . They had two sons John born 1855 and Henry in 1863 both died very young.
Information I received was Margaret and Heinrich went to Canada and eventually settled in America .

Looking for help in finding some more information on them.

Thanks
Midlad

[*Sandra*]

Have you got the parents names for Margaret and Heinrich please ? Any birth dates you may have is useful ?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY7C-QLC

Sandra

[Gadget]

The birth certificate of the son, born in 1855, should give you further details to search with as the 1855 Scottish certificates  gave more information than the later ones.

This, and possibly their marriage (though only statutory from 1855), might give you some of the information that Sandra mentions.

These can be obtained from

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ for a few credits.

and fewer details for free on Family Search (suggested by Sandra)

https://www.familysearch.org/search/

Family Search is likely to have some of the Canadian information as well.


Gadget

[Midlad]

Apologies I should have said Margaret was born 23 January 1834  Larbert Stirlingshire her parents were John Watson and Mary Buchan , All I know about Heinrich he was a ship's captain.
Both her sons John and Henry died in infancy.

Midlad

[Gadget]

If it helps

Heinrich was born circa 1821 in Holstein, Denmark
 
(From John's cert)

[Midlad]

  Thank you for that Gadget


   Midlad

[Gadget]

There's an interesting entry on the 1880 in Sabula, Jackson, Iowa

Henry Eggers, 62, widower, b. Holstein, 'works in house'

Gadget

[Gadget]

There are a considerable number of Heinrich Eggers (variations) in an 1845 Denmark census on Family Search. It might be worth having a look at the whole listing.

[oldohiohome]

He is not Heinrich Eggers, 33, who married Doris Melitz in 1875 in Jackson Co. They are in Scott County,  Iowa, in 1880 w/ 3 children

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He is not George Heinrich Eggers who married in Jackson Co Iowa in 1894. he was 26
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I didn't find death records for him or Margaret in Jackson County, Iowa. Or immigration records into Canada or New York. He might have gone there to work after she died, since:

 

There's an interesting entry on the 1880 in Sabula, Jackson, Iowa

Henry Eggers, 62, widower, b. Holstein, 'works in house'

The line actually says "works in S house" which could be a slaughtering house, since
"In the late 19th century ... The thriving community also supported a large hog slaughtering industry. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabula,_Iowa

There were other men on the page with the same occupation.
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As Gadget found a number of Heinrich Eggers in Holstein, I found a few Eggers families in Jackson County,  Iowa. He might have had family there, or it was a common name. I didn't look at birthplaces for the Eggers in that county, which might have helped decide that.