What happened to James Lindsay Robertson?

[Forfarian]

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.

Thank you. I have that census - except that the transcription I used says the head is (his father?) James Robertson, not Thomas. I'll check the original.

[Forfarian]

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

Yes. Wrong occupation, wife and parents and the informant is a son-in-law although as far as I know he had no family.

[Forfarian]

Rose Street

Yes, thank you. He was with his wife in Thistle Street in the 1891 census.

[Forfarian]

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.

Checked the original and it's definitely James (well, Jas) who is head.

Oh, the joys of poor transcriptions! FindMyPast was correct, although it has expanded the name from Jas to James, which is naughty.

[Blairvadach]

A possible spanner in the works

ROBERTSON
JAMES ROBIE
THOMAS ROBERTSON/MARY YOUNG
M
09/05/1852
275
70 / 498
Brechin

[Blairvadach]

Ancestry…..

[Blairvadach]

Hi Forfarian
Do you want any information about siblings?
Cheers

[Forfarian]

A possible spanner in the works

ROBERTSON
JAMES ROBIE
THOMAS ROBERTSON/MARY YOUNG
M
09/05/1852
275
70 / 498
Brechin

Yes, except that his middle initial is R and the one in the 1871 census is James L.

I think that James R died in Glenmuick Tullich and Glengairn in 1922.

Ancestry…..

Might have known. How could anyone possibly transcribe that as Thos?

And they have managed to misspell Forfarshire.

[Blairvadach]

As you say……Ancestry.