James Currie Adamson ww1 Pte

[Rosinish]

I did find David 'H' but OP gave 'N' for middle name.

Annie

[jim1]

H & N very similar though.

[Rosinish]

H & N very similar though.

As is an 'M'...3 which can get mixed up at times 

Annie

[jim1]

The person of interest is Robert Adamson who married Agnes Duncan but I can't find him with her on any census.
Edit:
Marriage said he was a seaman which probably accounts for it.

[MonicaL]

Just a little more on the witnesses to the 1913 marriage. Robina showed as Robina Patterson otherwise Adamson (from language, cohabitating rather than married?). This is her I think in 1911 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW7Y-RNG

Possible entry for the Pattersons in 1901:

George Patterson 39 blacksmith b. Gordon, Berwickshire
Robina Patterson 39 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire
James Patterson 20 Foundry Furnace Stoker b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire
John Patterson 17 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire
Bessie Patterson 15 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire
George Patterson 8 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire
William Patterson 2 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire

Address: 34 Albert Pl, Galashiels

From the general searches of the 1911 index, I think George and William Patterson are also in Wolverhampton for that census.

Monica

[jim1]

Yes living together but never married. There's also a Davina Patterson b. 1907 Glasgow who might be David Adamsons.
Father Robert may have parents Alexander Adamson & Catherine Symon but not quite sure. Still can't find a link to James Currie Adamson.

[MonicaL]

A George Patterson married a Robina Currie in Melrose, Roxburghshire in 1882. Could James Currie 'Adamson' be the illegitimate child of Robina Currie, born before her marriage to George Patterson? And, when she married George Patterson, could James show under Patterson and then Adamson?

1881 census:

James Currie 51 Woollen Mill Labr b. Selkirk
Bessie Currie 52 b. Hawick, Roxburghshire
Robina Currie 19 b. Selkirk
James Currie 2 b. Galashiels, Selkirkshire...there is a likely 1879 birth registration showing for this

Address: 36 Waverley Pl, Galashiels


This looks to be 1891 after Robina's marriage:

George Patterson 29 blacksmith
Robina Patterson 29
John Patterson 7
Bessie Patterson 5
Aggie Patterson 2

Address: 55 Wood Street, Galashiels

At that time, James is showing as Patterson at this maternal grandmother's:

Elizabeth Currie 65 annuitant b Hawick, Roxburgh Shire
James C Patterson 12 b. Galashiels

Address: St Boswells, Roxburgh

Monica

[jim1]

That looks interesting. Talk about keeping it in the family.

[jim1]

Birth confirms James Currie b. 2/3/1879 illegit. s. of Robina Currie woollen yarn winder.
Informant James Currie Grandfather.
1901 living with Grandmother Elizabeth Currie still as Patterson. see you've got that.
Think I can see him in 1911 lodging in Galashiels BP Hawick though.
Strange looking for a link to DH Adamson & it was Robina all along.
Could be he was estranged from his Step-father & decided on Adamson.
Scenario seems to be that Robina has left George & taken up with David Adamson & moved to W'Hampton & James has followed later dropping the Patterson name in favour of Adamson.