Hi Trish
Thomasina was another of the illegitimate children of Janet Bisset. She was born in Morton By Thornhill, Dumfries-shire on 08 SEP 1870. I have been struggling in the last day or so to find the Bisset family in the 1871/1881 census. This looks like them in 1891:
Janet Bisset 58 (Parochial Aid), b. Dumfries, Dumfriesshire
Janet Bisset 89 (Parochial Aid), b. (Priestland), Kirkcudbrightshire
Thomasina Bisset 20, Woollen Sower, b. Morton
Robert Bisset 13 b. Maxwelltown, Kirkcudbrightshire...This is Robert Welsh Bisset
Josephina Bisset 2, granddaughter, b. Dumfries
Address: 131 High St, Dumfries
Loose them again by 1901!
You and Maggie seem to have different opinions as to who Robert WBR was. Maggie seems to be following the family above, with the short marriage for Robert to Robina in 1910 before his marriage to Maggie Hamilton in 1911. The death in 1959 looks to be for this Robert. Who reported the death, not clear from what you have said. Did parents show as Joseph Russell, an iron turner or something similar, and Janet Bisset on this certificate?
Trish, you seem to be in conflict in your head and from what you say, you seem to think that Robert is the one showing as son of Robert Russel, a coach body maker and Janet Robertson (it is
this Janet Robertson whose mother is Catherine Morrison). This Robert was born in Glasgow, and shows with a sister Catherine and we have census entries for him, still with mother in 1901 with father having died when he was young.
My own gut feel pulls toward the RWB, son of Janet Bisset. All the middle surnames are in this family. Re-inforced by when brother Joseph Bisset married, he married as Russell with father showing as Joseph Turner and mother Janet Bisset. He shows later in Glasgow area with his wife by 1901, working as a railway shunter.
Just reading through your last post, I see that Maggie has found that Janet Bisset's mother's maiden name was Janet Robson, which just adds to the possibility that Robert WBR got confused with his mother's maiden name and gave his maternal granny's surname at the time of his marriage to Maggie Hamilton.
But these are my own thoughts.....it is you who has to be certain and confident in what you are finding
Monica