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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 12:46 BST (UK) »
Jessie's maiden name was Graham so the Aberdeen connects could be correct.  Although if she married in 1934 this was AFTER the time where she called herself Mrs Burnett.  Jessie Millar Graham could be her as she was born in Glasgow and her year of birth is correct.  Its difficult and there are lots of questions

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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 14:02 BST (UK) »
Hi

I would start looking at Samuel Stewart, on the  1911 census, to see if you can find  one who is an Hairdresser, then there are the Electoral Registers for the address

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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 14:55 BST (UK) »
 ;D Just been thinking exactly the same now.

Rebecca's birth in Nov 1922 gave the address of 48 Tollcross Road, Parkhead.

Off to find the full listing of PO Directories for this period in Glasgow. 1926-7 shows a Stewart at that address:

Stewart, George I., Fresh Air Fortnight, 82 Mitchell
st ; ho. 48 Tollcross road.
www.mocavo.co.uk/The-Post-Office-Annual-Glasgow-Directory-1926-1927-Volume-1926-27/554224/650

Not getting the reference to 'Fresh Air Fortnight' in the context of the address  :-\ Having googled the term, up comes things like this info here http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18369  The mention of Quarrier Homes etc could have meaning but still don't undertand how it connects to 48 Tollcross Road.

However, a search of the 1920 Valuation Roll for that address shows it to be classified as a house, with 11 households/tenants there....including a George Stewart, a grocer (maybe the one showing in 1926-7?). More importantly, there is Samuel Stewart, a tenant at 48 Tollcross Road, a hairdresser by trade.

Odd with the situation described that Rebecca would have been potentially born at her father's home...but such can be life.

Monica

Added: From general searches, the 1915 VR also I think list a Samuel and a George Stewart (no idea if there are family connections between them, just going by the surname which is why I mention George), at 48 Tollcross Road.
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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 15:10 BST (UK) »
As Marg has mentioned, next stage really would be the 1911 census for Samuel. There is a 26yr old Samuel Stewart showing in Shettleston. That is the one to look at really to see if it could be the right one given the later entries for a Samuel living in 48 Tollcross Road, Shettleston.....

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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 15:30 BST (UK) »
Back to Jessie Miller Burnett

There is a tree on Ancestry that has the following information

Jessie Miller Burnett, b, 2 Dec 1897, at 22, Rose Bank, Place, Aberdeen

Father, William Stephen Burnett, Mother, Isabella Cruden

It also has a marriage, 2 Oct 1934, but the husband is marked private
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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 15:39 BST (UK) »
In the meantime...I am getting quietly excited  ;)

Working on the possibility that (big leap until proved) Samuel and George could be brothers. There is a family in both 1891 and 1901 headed up by a Charles Stewart and wife Rebecca:

1891 - all the children born in Bothwell Lanark:

Charles Stewart 36 coal miner b. Calder lanark
Rebaaca Stewart 38 b. Calder lanark
Charles Stewart 14
Thomas Stewart 10
William Stewart 8
Samuel Stewart 6
George Stewart 6
James Stewart 3
James McFarlan 23 relative, coal miner b. Glasgow
John Carberry 17 boarder

Address: Potts Land Crossgates, Bothwell Lanark


1901:

Charles Stewart 45 coal miner
Rebacca Stewart 47
Charles Stewart 24
William Stewart 18
W Samuel Stewart 16
George Stewart 16
James Stewart 13
Robert Stewart 8
David Stewart 8
Mary Stewart 9
Rebacca Stewart 4

Address: New Orbiston Rows, Bothwell Lanark

The family looks to be at this time a coal mining family, with the older boys in 1901 also working in a variety of mining jobs.

I think the mother is a McFarlane by maiden name and possible marriage for parents in 1872 as showing here https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTB5-Z8X

From this family group, also possibility that George and Samuel may be twins? Possible birth regs for both in Bothwell 1885.

So, we could have the source of the name Rebecca McFarlane Stewart coming from the paternal grandmother side....but as always for now, just guesses until it can be confirmed really  ;)

Monica
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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 16:00 BST (UK) »
The 1913-14 Valuation Rolls is available to search and view for free. This is the page which includes 48 Tollcross Road www.theglasgowstory.com/imageview.php?inum=TGSV37155

No sign of Samuel, or George, at that address that year.

Monica
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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 16:19 BST (UK) »
Well I couldn't wait to see...so checked 1911 for Samuel and it is most certainly him.

He was living with his wife Harriet at 88 Maukinfauld Road in Tollcross. Streetview shows it is very likely still there, typical Glasgow tenaments.

Helping confirm his details for now are that he shows as a Hairdressing Assistant as you had on Rebecca's birth and orphanage papers. Also, his place of birth is given as Bothwell, Lanark which helps to link up to the details of the family of Charles Stewart and Rebecca McFarlane that we have now.  If you have access to Ancestry, there are family trees for this family line of Charles and Rebecca which you might want to connect with the tree owners there at some point.

I cannot see the marriage of Samuel to Harriet (looks like this is followed by initials L L) on SP so far...Harriet is showing as having been born in England.

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Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« Reply #26 on: Wednesday 15 October 14 16:36 BST (UK) »
Brilliant Monica, I was also looking at that family, but cooking the tea got in the way
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