Fenion

[STODDIE]

Anyone have any info on my family, New Luce & Stranraer?

[Ruskie]

Welcome to rootschat Stoddie.

You will need to give us more information before anyone can attempt to help you. Can you at least tell us any or all of the following:
names (if deceased)
dates and places of birth (if deceased)
... and tell us what you already know about them and what you hope to find out.

[Gadget]

I think this is another thread about the Fenions

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,619062.msg4682105.html#msg4682105

Is it Peter or do you want to go back further, Stoddie?


Gadget


added -

Just in case you don't have this:

1901
Main Street, New Luce
James Fenion, unm, 53, cattle dealer, b. Inch
Agnes, niece, unm, 33, housekeeper, b. New Luce
Peter, nephew, unm, 25, cattle dealer, b. do

[Gadget]

Some more, in case:

Peter's father down as Peter Fenion, general dealer and Elizabeth m.s. Blackwell. Peter was born 20 October 1875

Peter and Elizabeth married 20 May 1873, New Luce
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYW2-Z8H

Peter (father) might have died 1875, New Luce, aged 23 - record on SP I've not been able to trace Elizabeth Blackwell after Peter's birth

1891
Main Street, New Luce
James Fenion, unm, 45, general dealer, b. Inch
John, bro, unm, 37, do, b. do
Agnes, niece, unm, 22, housekeeper, b. New Luce
Peter, nephew, unm, 25, farm servant, b. do

1881
Main Street, New Luce
Daniel Fenion, , 64, Ag labourer, b. Ireland
Agnes, wife, 67, b. New Luce
James, son, unm,34,  stonedyker, b. Inch
Agnes, grdd, 13, scholar, b. New Luce

1871
Stair Arms Inn, New Luce
Agnes Fanion, 60, ag lab's wife, b. New Luce
Ann, d, 30, cook, b. Inch
Thomas, s, 28, mason b. do
Peter, s, 20, ag lab, b. do
Euphemia, d, 12, b. do
Agnes, grdd, 3, b. New Luce
William, s, 22, mason, b. Inch

Please note that we can't mention the names of living or possibly living people on Rootschat, so I've just gone back not forward.

Gadget

[STODDIE]

Thank you for all the info you have given me, some of it I had but a couple of bits are new to me. I know Elizabeth married again but can find nothing of her in the next census

[Gadget]

Hi Stoddie

I found a bit more info - maybe you have it, maybe you don't!

Eliz/sabeth's father was a Hugh Blackwell and mother was Mary McLure:

1851
Village, New Luce
Hugh Blackwell, 43, blacksmith, b. Old Luce
Mary, wife, 41, b. Girvan, Ayrshire
Elisabeth, d, 11, b. New Luce
Jane, d, 8, b. do
Robert, s, 3, b. do
Robert McLure, father in law, 77, resident,  b. Ballantrae, Ayrshire

1871
New Luce
Elisabeth Blackwell, unm, 30, Grocer, b. New Luce
Jane, sister, 28, dressmaker, b. do


Peter, snr, seems to have been the father to both sisters's children:

New Luce
22 Feb 1873, Robert Fenion,(Illegit) Father - Peter Fenion, labourer  Mother - Jane Blackwell, dressmaker (deceased). Informants - Elisabeth Blackwell, aunt and Peter Fenion, father

18th June 1873, Jane Fenion, Father - Peter Fenion, ag labourer Mother - Elisabeth M.S Blackwell. Married - 20th May 1873, New Luce

After Peter's death in 1875, Elisabeth seems to have married an Alexander Donald in 1877, New Luce. I don't see them after this in the UK.

Have you found Peter (b. 1875) on the 1881?


Gadget

[Gadget]

I think that I've found Alexander Donald in 1871. It might help to locate them in 1881. He was a Railway labourer in 1877, aged 32.

1871

RG10/5271/101/7
Crosby Garrett, Westmorland
John Symon, 41, stone mason, b. Scotland, Aberdeen
......
Alex M Donald, lodger, unm, 25, railway labourer, b. Scotland, Inverness-shire



Gadget

[Gadget]

Elisabeth Blackwell/Fenion/Donald  died in Ardchattan, Argyll in 1878

19 Dec 1878 Elizabeth Donald (married to Alexander Donald, railway labourer). Letterwood, Ardchattan. Aged 39.
Father - Hugh Blackwell, blacksmith (dec) Mother - Mary Blackwell m.s. MClure (dec)
Cause - Phthisis*  - certified
Informant - Alex Donald, husband (present)


*Phthisis = TB



Gadget

Added - I think Letterwood is on Loch Awe - map link here (as Coille Leitire, if my limited Gaelic is correct!) :
    
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0vfh/

The trains still run by:

http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/node/30311

[STODDIE]

This news is fantastic , I kinda know all Peters life after his father died, he died in 1924 which is the plot I have been looking for, as  for his mum Elizabeth I just could not find her, I also have no idea where his sister Jane and brother Robert went. If you don't mind saying where are you seeing these as I have been looking for a long time. Thank you so much for your help