Mornin' all,
Good grief!! I wake up this morning to a mine of information unearthed in a twinkling by that triumvirate of lateral thinkers,
Falkyrn, Monica &
Sancti. Thank you all again, kind ones.
Falkyrn, can you tell me where you located the (SP
) census image? It's so legible that I wonder about the mistranscription on Ancestry....and since I do refer to Ancestry to a large extent (though not exclusively) I wonder if that's a common occurrence.......(btw, in the Anc. Tr. there's no mention of John as a widower, so you've narrowed down Janet's death date for me too
)
I'm plumping for Dunblaine as J's birthplace too- it seems very probable if the census is accurate, although if Sancti could only find an 1800 baptism date, (J. born abt 1792) it makes you wonder if the parent/s were; a) lazy, b) forgetful, c) uninterested or d) caught on the hop with a prem. birth out of their parish...... so many questions
I've downloaded & scrutinised Glasgow maps & images, but must find a parish map, as the Par. refs. are meaningless without one. Falkyrn, you
are a keen bean to be able to pull ref. nos. & related info out of your head like that.......
I learnt from the High Court of Justiciary cases mentioned in the Glasgow Herald that John also provided details of the
"panel's" (ie the accused's) previous charges & convictions at trials, so I may try to access the relevant trial papers for more detail
.......which leads me to an interesting point......
John & Janet's daughter, Janet, arrived in NSW in 1841. 3 years later she gave birth to a daughter, the father of whom was George Wilson, of Airdrie, (weaver->indoor servant->butler) a Glasgow convict about the same age as her father. George (whose trial papers I've ordered) was convicted for forgery on 27 Sep 1837 at ...wait for it..... the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow
Had John & George's paths crossed? Was young Janet acquainted with him in Scotland? Her cousin Ellison Swan and niece, Janet Orr were born in Airdrie....
George had a tattooed ring on his wedding ring finger, so may have left a wife behind....certainly he & Janet didn't marry in NSW.......in fact she married another convict after G's daughter's birth, had 2 more chn & died Nov 1848.....but I wonder about the coincidence, particularly as George maintained arelationship of some sort with his daughter, and consented to her marriage in 1863.... intriguing, non?
Ann