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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) => Topic started by: Nozza66 on Sunday 25 August 13 10:44 BST (UK)
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Hi all just searching for a while for info on George Rae born abt 1840 think in Linlithgow as that what it says on passenger list to South Australia in 1852 on ship Medina, but cant seem to find parents or marriage .
any info would be helpful .
cheers
Nozza66
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Hi ,
There is this reference -
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYSH-J22
Would that be his father and mother ?
ev
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Yes that seems to be their marriage but no parents names there , so any info would help me heaps.
cheers
Nozza66
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Adding the ship list -
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/medina1852.shtml
So George is 32 born Linlithgow(born c1820) Ag. Labourer
ev
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On 26th June 1852 Christina Tweedie, my 1st cousin 4 x removed left these shores for ever. Having travelled from Scotland to Liverpool with her husband, George Rae, an agricultural labourer from Linlithgow, and their children Mary 4, Thomas 2 and David 6 months, they boarded the Medina and began their journey to Australia. The Medina was the 16th ship to leave England for Australia that year and carried 410 government emigrants bound for South Australia. Conditions on board must have been bad as twelve children under the age of two died in the space of five days and five on one single day. The cause seems to have been dysentry. George and Christina's youngest child David was one of these casualties and like the other children was buried at sea. The journey took 105 days and the ship arrived in Port Adelaide on 9th October. Christina died in Redhill, South Australia in 1902.
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Looks like George Rae died 1877 Clare , South Australia.
Have you checked the death to see if it mentions parents ?
http://www.genealogysa.org.au/?option=com_search&ref=search&id=2&s=cmFl&g=Z2Vvcmdl&c=&y=MTg3Nw==&r=MA==
Online trees I've looked at don't seem to have his parents :-\
Perhaps Seoras may be able to help ?
ev
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They are mistranscribed as Reid on the 1851 in Dixon's Row, Whitburn, Lanarkshire. George is working as an Iron Minor and young Thomas and Mary are with them.
That census gives George born in Wiston, Lanarkshire so it may be worth looking there for him too. The original marriage entry for him and Christina also gives him of the Parish of Wiston.
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There is a George Rae born in Wiston, son of Daniel Rae and Agnes Weir on 7 August 1819 that could be worth looking at.
I wonder if he lived in Linlithgow as a child and got confused as there is no George Rae that I can see born in Linlithgow around that time
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Thank you all so much ,
ev we must be cousins removed as Thomas is my great grand-dad his son William John is my mums dad .
So any info that anyone has would be great .
thanks all again
Nozza66
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Sorry we're not related :)
Seoras is the one your after.
Quote from: Seoras on Wednesday 26 June 13 23:53 BST (UK)
ev
Added - That looks promising , Ruth :)
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sorry ev :(
thanks
Nozza66
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Heads , Winston and Roberton , Lanarkshire(all born Lanarkshire)
George Rae 21 farmer
Agnes Rae 65
Helen Rae 13
Marion Spence 2
1841 Census transcription(http://www.freecen.org.uk/)
ev
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Hi all just searching for a while for info on George Rae born abt 1840 think in Linlithgow as that what it says on passenger list to South
Hi Nozza, sorry for the late reply, I have been on holiday. I can't help much with George, other than he was born about 1819. As the passenger list says he was an ag lab from Linlithgow but that probably means he was living there and not born there. I know he died in Clare, South Australia March 31 1877.
Christina I can help with, she was the 8th child of David Tweedie and Mary Orr and was born in Whitburn 16 September 1817. She married George on 24 August 1844 in West Calder, not too far away from Linlithgow. Her father David was the elder brother of my 3xG grandfather Robert Tweedie and both were sons of Robert Tweedie and Margaret Somerville. He was the second of their children to be named David, the first having died in infancy.
This is the gravestone in Carnwarth of Christina's parents. It was erected by her brother Robert, their eldest child and also bears inscriptions to Robert's wife and Christina's grandfather (my 4xG grandfather). Feel free to PM me for any info on the Tweedie connection.
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I too am a Rae/ Tweedy descendant. My great grandfather was Thomas Rae who married Mary Susan Nance. Thomas was a child on their voyage to Australia on the Medina.
I do have the information on the Tweedies but have had trouble tracing George Rae's family back before his birth date of 10/13/1821 at Whitburn and his marriage to Christina Tweedie on the 24/08/1844 at West Calder, Midlothian.
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Sorry that birth date for George Rae should have read 03/03/1821.
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Seoras, I would very much like to contact you regarding the Rae and Tweedie families. Could you please let me know if you receive this message as the previous ones were posted quite a long time ago.
Many thanks!
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Hello
so sorry i have not been on for sometime as recovering from a stroke so i have put everything on hold to get better a re learn things that i had done .
any info you might would be great
many thanks
noeleen
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Hi. Hoping someone has any info to share on George Rae/Christina Tweedy or Tweedie. Having trouble getting info on his father's name or mother's name. Cheers
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We have Rae's from Linlithgow. I am looking for the Birthplace of my James Rae bn 1779. He married Mary Ann Burgh/Bugg and had my line Thomas Rae who came to Australia. James Rae Esq was the Sheriff Substitute of Linlithgowshire. George maybe his brother and would love any connections to these people. :) thank you.
What is interesting in 1803 James Rae was a writer Tolbooth Church Edinburgh Parish. George and James have to be connected.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/69881/rev-dr-william-king-tweedie-1803-1863-tolbooth-church-edinburgh-free-church-minister