Mary. Blair Thornhill

[ev]

Monica ,

Found this(and it's 1855  )

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XY7G-GH8

ev

[MonicaL]

Thanks Ev  Never seen Hollo/as as a surname I don't think.

Can't see Mary's birth so far, but the following siblings show:

Thomas 1856 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7MC-JXN
Agnes 1858 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQCT-2HW
Thomas 1859 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7MC-JXK

Monica

Added: Mary's birth in 1860 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQCR-YZ4

[MonicaL]

The family in 1861. Likely a second marriage for Thomas Snr given the date of marriage Ev found. Possible first wife was Magdalene according to the earlier 1851 census. From 1861:

Thomas McAlpin 40, fisherman b. Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire
Mary H McAlpin 38 b. Ireland
James Henry McAlpin 17
Madline McAlpin 14
Margaret McAlpin 11
William McAlpin 8
Edward McAlpin 6
Agnes McAlpin 3
Thomas McAlpin 2
Mary McAlpin 5 Months

Address: 2 Sheuchan Close, Stranraer, Wigtownshire

A little more on the family here http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heron1/fam725.html

Thought tracing Mary McAlpin back a little would help in finding her with daughter Mary Gray in the 1901 census but can't easily see anything yet...

[apanderson]

In 1871

Thomas McAlpin 50, Seaman b. Stoneykirk, Wigtownshire
Mary McAlpin 48 b. Ireland
Edward McAlpin 16, Day Labourer
Thomas McAlpin 11, Scholar
Mary McAlpin 9, Scholar

Address: 2 Sheuchan Close, Stranraer, Wigtownshire

[apanderson]

1901....

Thomas McAlpine (Head) 40, Seaman in Steamship b. 1861 Leswalt, Wigtownshire
Mary Ann McAlpine, Wife, 38 b. Stoneykirk
Alexander McAlpine, Son, 12, Scholar, b. Stranraer
Elizabeth McAlpine, Daughter, 8, Scholar, b. Glasgow
Agnes McAlpine, Daughter, 6, Scholar, b. Stranraer
Jane McAlipine, Daughter, 5 months, b. Stranraer
Mary McAlpin, Mother, 65, b. Leswalt

Address: 40 St. John Street, Stranraer, Wigtownshire

[apanderson]

1881 ..

Mary McAlpine, Head, Sailor's Widow, 60 b. Stranraer
Thomas McAlpine, Son, 20, Mariner, b. Stranraer
Mary McAlpine, Daughter, 18, General Servant, b. Stranraer
John McGarva, Nephew, 20, Mariner, b. Stranraer

Address: 45 Sheuchan Street, Stranraer

[apanderson]

I hope I'm not muddying the waters here, but I thought if we got a bigger picture .....?

I couldn't find anything in Scotland in 1891, but in England were:

Thomas McAlpine, 74, Mangler (Wash), born Scotland
Mary McAlpine, Wife, 64, Mangler (Wash), born Scotland

Address: 145 Boleyn Road, Islington, London

May be a completely different couple though! 

[MonicaL]

Hi Anne

That's great with the other censuses. At least we know from the 1901 census entry that you have included that baby Mary was not with maternal grandmother, Mary Hollas, or Uncle Thomas.

For Mary McAlpine b. 1860, so far we have the surnames of McAlpine and Gray. The Mary McAlpine McNeil or Leet that showed as a witness to the marriage of Robert H Blain and Mary E Gray, was not Mary E Gray's mother (phew  thought we had a whole new string of surnames to check through!). Not sure how this Mary McAlpine McNeil or Leet is connected (this Mary married a William Leet in 1914, daughter of Daniel McNeil and Sarah McAlpine).

Monica 

[MonicaL]

It is all obvious when you find the right entry 

No John Gray around for Mary Helen's birth....She was born after the 1901 census on 24 October of that year in Maybole, Ayrshire.

As a little recap of the last searches we have all done:

Mary McAlpine b. 1860 in Stranraer, Wigtownshire to Thomas McAlpine and Mary Hollos. She died unmarried in 1945 at Burnside Cottage, her daughter Mary Buchanan reporting her death.

Mary McAlpine b. 1901 in Maybole, Ayrshire to Mary McAlpine (b.1860). Mary married twice. Firstly to Robert Harrison Blair (who died in Dunfermline in 1959), divorce finalised 1944 it seems from what Hume found. Second marriage to an Andrew Buchanan in Stirling in 1944. Mary Blair Buchanan (McAlpine/Gray) died in 1987....there is also son George McPhee born c. 1935 and maybe other names to bring in along the way.

Catherine b. 1920 and her daughter Mary b. 1940 seem more straightforward in terms of info and you have been able to confirm many of their details overall.

....I can now get on with Sunday lunch for the family who are now looking at me less amused as they are hungry