Hi All...I've got myself tied up in knots over the above family.
Some background info here
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=669720.0 but as it's a lengthy post I will summarise.
Elizabeth Hamilton was born circa 1841 in Hamilton to Thos Hamilton & Marion Inglis. She married Robt Crawford in Dec 1863 in Pembrokeshire at which time he was a spirit merchant of New Milford. A daughter, Marion Inglis Crawford was born 19 Jan 1865 where Robt is referred to as R. J. Crawford.
An 1861 census was sourced in the previous post for Robt Crawford, aged 25, Chief Steward, married, born Ayrshire, Scotland and on board S.S. Courier in Pembrokeshire.
Last sighting of him is via a publication in the London Gazette dated 21 Feb 1865 by the Registrar of the Court of Bankruptcy for Robert J. Crawford of the Mariner's Inn, New Milford but....
by 1871 Elizabeth Crawford is a widow in Llanstadwell, Pembroke, Licensed Victuallar and I'm struggling to find Robt's death. The most likely options are:
Robert Crawford died Liverpool aged 33 Mar Qtr 1871 (8b 172) or aged 35, Woolwich Jun Qtr 1871 (1d 574). The 1871 census was taken 02 Apr 1871 and the latter death was registered in the Apr, May, Jun Qtr of that year. I suppose it's possible that Elizabeth was widowed in March and the death registered in the following month?
A second daughter was born to Robt & Elizabeth...Susan born Dec Qtr 1866 Pembroke (11a 732) and she possibly married as Susan McLean Crawford Jun Qtr 1894 to Josiah Evans or George Orlando Patey.
With that in mind I searched for a Robt Crawford born Ayrshire with a mother Susan and I found a family in 1841 in River St Wallacetown in the parish of St Quivox, Ayrshire:
Mrs Crawford aged 50, a Sewer, born Ayrshire
Susan Crawford aged 30, born Ireland
Isabella Crawford aged 10, born Ayrshire
Janet Crawford aged 8, born Ayrshire
Robert Crawford aged 4, born Ayrshire
1851 at Garden St Wallacetown:
Susan Crawford, aged 40, born Ireland
Robert Crawford, aged 14, born St Quivox
and 3 McFee visitors
The problem is I can't tie all this together. I don't know what Susan Crawford's maiden name is or who she married. If this is the Robt Crawford I'm looking for in Wallacetown and on the SS Courier in 1861 then it's possible he was married before he met Elizabeth Hamilton in Pembroke in 1863.
I hesitate to access the marriage of Robt and Elizabeth because it will likely only tell me the name of Robt's father and not his mother. Does anyone have some suggestions as to the next step I might take?...Please.