Thank you for all of this wonderful information!!
Yes, John and Margaret (Paterson) Roy are definitely the people I'm researching. Until you wonderful people came up with 1873, I don't think anywhere I've researched so far has shown the death date of John Sr.
I do have though a mention that Margaret Paterson Roy was killed in a carriage accident with a horse.
The reason I said Tolcross was John (Jock) Roy was born there Dec 10, 1803. But now you've mentioned Douglas, Scotland I have some where else to follow.
I have a picture of John Jock Roy's headstone at St. Philips Cemetery in Westville, Nova Scotia, but nothing for Margaret or John Sr.
This site says:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9HCH-YBX John (Jock) Roy
birth: 10 December 1823
death: 21 October 1895
Margaret Roy
birth: 1825
death: 23 June 1898
Janet Roy
birth: 1829
death: 30 May 1903
Robert Roy
birth: 1830
death:
James Roy
birth: 1834
death: 11 September 1909
Annie Roy
birth: 1837
death: 1919
William Roy
birth: 1840
death: 24 February 1920
Elizabeth Roy
birth: 27 January 1843
death: 8 October 1844
David Roy
birth: 8 December 1845
death: 20 October 1846
Agnes Hamilton Roy
birth: 6 March 1848
death:
John Roy
birth: 1803
Baillston, Lanarkshire, Scotland
death: June 1873
Westville, Nova Scotia St. Phillips Cemetary
spouse:
Margaret Patterson
birth: 1805
marriage: March 1823
death: 19 December 1889
The Henderson Family is in fact a branch of this great tree. But they haven't any further information that John and Margaret listed.
John Roy 15 coal miner, That's our Jock! As far as I can tell from the repetition of names JOHN seems to be the favorite.
If I'm understanding all this correctly it looks like John Roy 1803-1875, son John Jock Roy 1823 - 1895, son David Roy 1867 - 1955, son Clem Roy 1904 - 1972, son Gordon Roy 1931 - Nov 19, 2014, and then Jan Roy (that's me and the birth date is a national secret!)
I've had remarkable results with:
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com for BMD, but I cannot locate a John Roy who died between 1871 and 1881
Our Jock or John (the son of John and Margaret) was in fact married by 1868. He was actually married three times by then. Catherine Turnbull, Fanny Brown and my 3rd great grandmother Joanna McNeill. There were 19 children among the three families. We refer to each other as being from The First, The Second or as I am, The Third Family.
John (Jock) Roy
birth: 10 December 1823
Tolcross, Lanarkshire, Scotland
death: 21 October 1895
Westville, Nova Scotia
spouse:
Johanna MacNeill
birth: 1837
marriage: 1868
death: 1904
Fanny Brown
birth: February 1823
marriage: 1843
death: 29 August 1855
Catherine Anne Turnbull
birth: 5 April 1825
marriage: 25 September 1855
death: 8 January 1868
We haven't been able to verify this but family history says that James Roy (brother of Jock) came to Canada around 1840, sent for his brother Jock who arrived on a ship Tomkitaboo. No where is there any mention of this ship that we've been able to trace.
I've managed to research other branches of my own family: Porter/Marshall (Galloway Scotland 1742) and Sinclair/MacDonald/Van Buskirk (the only non Scottish name in the group!!) but I am at a loss with the Roys.
Thank you again, so all your information. Things like Douglas, Scotland, the repetition of names, maiden names being used and John Sr's death are so much appreciated. I can't believe how long it's been since I've been on the Roy section of this site.
Jan