Thanks for your response Forfarian, I thought that was the case, but wanted to double check with those familiar with the website just in case. I've had one request for the spreadsheet so far, hope they find their relative. Just hope the Glasgow Herald is scanned better one of these days and made more searchable via FindMyPast or the British Newspaper Archive sites after their collection stops at 1900.
Back to my great aunt Ellen (no middle name). She was born 25 May 1889, Labour Street, Glasgow to parents William Gilmour (1857-1935) & Catherine Dieter (1865-1950) who were married 13 Nov 1888.
Census 1891 Famiy living at 11 Braehead Street, Govan. Father William 37, a draper & underclothier. Wife Catherine 25, Ellen is now 2 and living with her brother Alexander, 2 months old.
Census 1901 Ellen, 11 year old scholar, is with her paternal grandmother Helen Gilmour/Connell (nee Bonar, first name is actually Ellen, but recorded here as Helen) and her aunt Margaret Gilmour, 44, a dressmaker at 12 West Princes Street on the Isle of Bute.
Census 1911 Unable to definitively place Ellen on this census. Her mother Catherine (46) is head of household at 239 Main Street, Maryhill living with Ellen's siblings Alexander 20, Josephine 15, Catherine 12, William 8 and Bernard age 4. I'm assuming Ellen's father William was back in the Merchant Navy at this point and likely at sea when Census was taken. Her mother declared she had 7 births with 6 children still living. The family move to 5 Ruchill Street, Maryhill after this census according to Valuation Rolls. Her parents move to Blairgowrie early 1920's, with siblings Alexander & Josephine remaining at Ruchill Street into the late 1920's.
Due to this Census, I found Ellen had had another brother, also called William who was born and died in 1892 and is buried at Old Dalbeth Cemetery. So he is the one child Catherine declared had died on the 1911 Census meaning Ellen was alive somewhere.
I've opened numerous entries at Scotlandspeople and found nothing to date. Ellen is not a witness at any of her siblings weddings and also not found on the 1939 Identification Register when I applied for that via Registers House in Edinburgh.
There is no mention of her in her mother Catherine's Will in 1950 (there is no mention of any of the siblings apart from William Jnr. who is left the entire Estate). Her father William didn't leave a Will when he died in 1935 over in Blairgowrie.
Also no mention of her when William Jnr died in 1972 or her sister Catherine in 1976. My gran Josephine didn't leave a Will when she died in the late 60's.
I've also looked at the Glasgow Electoral Rolls available on Ancestry, but didn't find that an easy record set to work with and again cannot be certain she is amongst those.
I have to assume she died elsewhere, hence my search of the Glasgow Herald or if she did die in Scotland, whoever recorded her entry either didn't know her correct age and parent details.
I'll need to list all that I have ruled out at Scotlandspeople. I guess my only hope is to continue searching the Glasgow Herald and wait patiently for the 1921 Census release.
What I find odd is her parents had a Catholic marriage, but none of the children were baptised. The only Catholic connection after the parent's marriage in 1888, was the burial of Ellens sibling William in 1892. He was buried in a plot containing her grandmother's 2nd husband Peter Connell and their infant son, also called Peter, born in the 1870's. Her gran Ellen Bonar was buried there in 1906 when she died at Scotia Street, Glasgow.
No entries for her at the National Records of Scotland on line. Anybody got any suggestions? I think I've covered everything I can think of. Maybe the upcoming Parish Records collection that Scotlandspeople will be putting on line shortly might lead to something.
