Looking for Catherine Sinclair Taylor b.1874

[Karytay]

Looking for Catherine Sinclair Taylor b.1874 born in Saltcoats she had a twin John Campbell Taylor their parents were Duncan Taylor b. 1835 Saltcoats and Marion Campbell b. 1844 do not know were.

[AMBLY]

Hi Karytay

Welcome to Rootschat 

This looks like the family in 1881 - husband / father away at sea? And a pob for Marion....

1881: Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, Old Ardrossan
576/1 - ED 5 / Pg 20, HS 88
Head: Marion TAYLOR 36, Sailors Wife, b Ardrossan, Ayrshire
Son: John C TAYLOR 6, Scholar, b Saltcoats
Son: Archie TAYLOR 3, b Saltcoats
Son: Duncan TAYLOR 1, b Saltcoats

No Catherine S TAYLOR age 6, though...do you have her in any later Census or BMDs?

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

Ah, OK, I see Catherine in 1881....in the household of her maternal Grandad, a little further along Hamilton Street...

Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, Old Ardrossan
Ref: 576/1 - ED 5 / Pg 27, HS 122
Head: John CAMPBELL 73, Railway Servant, b Saltcoats
Dau:  Janet CAMPBELL 26, Genl Servant, b Saltcoats
Niece: Mary TAYLOR 11, Scholar, b Saltcoats
Neice: Kate TAYLOR 6, Scholar, b Saltcoats

In 1891, the TAYLOR children Mary 21, John 16, Archie 13 and Duncan Jnr 11 are all with Auntie Janet CAMPBELL at 38 Hamilton St.   In 1891, just Duncan Jnr 21 is still there with Janet.

No Catherine / Kate here in 1891 or 1901. Do you have anything on her after 1881?

Cheers
AMBLY

[Karytay]

Thanks Ambly, that's the last info I have of her. She seem of disappeared. Her twin was my great grandfather who came to South Africa.
Now I am wondering if she could of died at a young age? since I cannot find anything more about her.

Her parents both downed at sea on the 2 Feb 1899. Her father was the First Mate of the ship Roseneath that sank. So all the children ended up staying with aunt Janet Campbell and grand father John Campbell.   

[AMBLY]

Hi

The shipping tragedy  in 1889, explains the children with their Grandfather & Aunt in 1891.

The event was reported n Newspapers across the globe!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/wrecks.htm
Timaru Herald (NZ) Wednesday 6 February 1889
London, Feb. 5
"Wreck of the Roseneath The Roseneath, which was on the berth at Glasgow for Adelaide, was totally wrecked at Port Patrick. Mr Taylor, the mate, his wife and son, and three of the crew, were drowned"

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/13717051?searchTerm=Roseneath
The son was aged 4 apparently, and the only one of the children on the ship.

So not Catherine who died in 1889 .....

Cheers
AMBLY

[Karytay]

There is something else! Catherine's oldest sister changed her name after her mother died from Marion Wilson Taylor to Marion Campbell Taylor b. 1866 d. 1950
Do you think that Catherine did the same? Form Catherine Sinclair Taylor to Catherine Campbell Taylor.

[weeaza]

Catherine Sinclair Taylor died 11 Sept 1883,  Gate House, Western Infirmary,Kelvin, Glasgow.
Tubercular Meningitis 21 days. Usual Residence, Hamilton Street, Saltcoats.

[Karytay]

Thanks weeaza. So young and what an horrible thing to have.