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Re: Completed - Anyone know of Jessie Pilmer - 1870 Dundee?
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 26 May 12 18:02 BST (UK) »
It's taken a long time but I have finally found the death of Jessie Pilmer (also spelled Pilmore) on Scotland's People under the name of her mother Jessie Strathearn. Jessie Pilmer was the illegitimate daughter of an Alexander Anthony Pilmer and Jessie Strathearn and sadly died of Consumption (16 months) on 02 June 1874 back in her home town of Alyth. It explains why her illegitimate daughter Isabella was taken and brought up by the father Peter Gilchrist and his wife Elizabeth Watson whom he married in 1873.
Thanks to all who helped.
PWN
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Gilchrist - Tillicoultry & Stirling. Denovan - St Ninians and Bannockburn
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Re: Anyone know of Jessie Pilmer - 1870 Dundee?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 03 March 19 00:29 GMT (UK) »
A followup on Alex Anth Pilmer - he married Margaret Roxburgh in Dundee shortly after Jessie's birth, was noted as a customs officer in Dundee in 1851, went to the Ballarat goldfields (Victoria) shortly after, Margaret followed in 1854 but drowned when the "Tayleur" sank off Ireland. Alex remarried in Ballarat in 1860, shortly after they went to NZ and were in Wellington mostly. In abt 1881 they went to Cooktown in Qld where Alex died in 1885. His widow Rosa returned to NZ where she died in 1913. Some of their children remained in NZ and are the family Colin referred to earlier under the Anzac line.
Garry
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