What happened to James Lindsay Robertson?

[Forfarian]

Born Brechin 28 August 1850 to James Robertson (d 1890)  and Jean Rodger (d 1859).
Married Jane Clark (1854-1945) on 7 June 1876 in Brechin. No children.
Occupation hairdresser.
In 1881 census he and Jane were in Brechin.
In 1891 he and Jane were in Edinburgh.
In 1901 Jane was in Edinburgh, described as a widow. She remarried in 1927.

There is only one James Robertson born 1850 plus or minus three years and died between 1891 and 1901 whose mother's maiden name isn't in the deaths index, and it isn't him.

(He's not the James Robertson who died in Brechin in 1950 aged 100, either.)

A James Lindsay Robertson served with the Black Watch in the Boer War (Pte No 7584), but I can't imagine a hairdresser aged almost 50 signing up to be a private soldier at that stage of his life, and I have yet to find an actual service record - all I can find is where he served in South Africa and what medals be was awarded. (WO100/190 page 388; WO100/190 page 515)

Nothing in DeceasedOnline and nothing more in FindMyPast.

Ideas, anyone?

[ciderdrinker]

Good Morning.
I've tried Ancestry and they have transcripts of the 1901 census.
Burns St ,Glasgow St George in the Fields
Model Lodging House
James Robertson 50 lodger born Beechen ,Forfarshire.
Han Dresser
There are 50 lodgers ,all men so I won't list them all.
FindMyPast says he is a hair dresser and married.

Just checking he's not this chap buried at Barry Angus
James L Robertson age 50 buried 19.12.1900 Died  Chillan Chile
same grave David L Robertson died at Moffat 4.5.1886 age 34.
It doesn't look like him.
The bloke in Glasgow looks a lot more like him.

There is a death
Robertson James 77 mmn Rodgers 1928 Pollokshields on Scots People

That looks like him.
Maybe

Ciderdrinker

[Forfarian]

Thank you.

The one in the model lodging house looks likely.

If so Jane was lying when she said in 1901 that she was a widow.

But the 1928 death isn't him - occupation, wife and parents don't match and the informant was a son-in-law.

And I have already checked the one buried in Barry - or at least the other one on the stone, who is David Lawson Robertson, mother's name Lawson. I can't think that someone who died in Chile could be buried in Barry in 1900 - and if the one in the model lodging house is correct, it's impossible anyway.

[rosie17]

Electoral register Glasgow 1913/1914 there is a James Robertson
334 London Road Glasgow ( Hairdresser ) might not be him but could be the same one ciderdrinker  found ?

Rosie

[Forfarian]

Thank you. Yes, it's possible.

[Blairvadach]

Hi
He’s in the 1871 census..aged 20 living at 2 Sunnybank Place, Edinburgh South Leith.
It’s a Thomas Robertson aged 42 (Mason)who is head. He was also born in Brechin.

[Blairvadach]

Rose Street

[Blairvadach]

There’s a James Lindsay Robertson, salesman, living in Glasgow 1915 ( electoral register)

[Blairvadach]

Is this the 1928 death that you have looked into?
ROBERTSON
JAMES
77
RODGERS
M
1928
644 / 18 / 288
Pollokshields