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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: nazchk on Sunday 09 July 17 22:54 BST (UK)

Title: Glenholm
Post by: nazchk on Sunday 09 July 17 22:54 BST (UK)
So, yesterday I'm driving from Moffat through the borders and pass a place saying Glenholm garden center. Glenholm was where my 2 x great grandmother was born. Anyone on here familiar with the name Boa? I didn't realise the actual place still existed.
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: sancti on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:02 BST (UK)
What was her name and what year was she born?
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:31 BST (UK)
I'm just marking this as a name I have come across (Boa) although I'm almost sure it was in Inverness-shire (from memory)?

Quote from: sancti on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:02 BST (UK)
What was her name and what year was she born?

Who were her parents?

It doesn't seem a common name i.e. may be connected?

I will check out what I think I remember  ::)

Annie

Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:38 BST (UK)
Hmmm...

I'm afraid the surname Boa is widespread on SP i.e. more details are much in need  :D


Annie
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: sancti on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:42 BST (UK)
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Glenholm,_Peeblesshire,_Scotland_Genealogy
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 11 July 17 00:56 BST (UK)
I should have stated that it was not uncommon for Lowlanders to be given work in the Highlands hence my suggestion of my recollection in my research.

I have come across a few families in the Highlands who originated from the Borders areas.

Annie
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: nazchk on Tuesday 11 July 17 07:57 BST (UK)
Hello again, her name was Marion Boa, born in 1858. Her mother's name was Janet Boa. No mention of father on her birth certificate but names John Wilson as her father on her marriage certificate. She was married to John Hay, then divorced, and married Patrick Connelly. I know there were Boas in the Roxburgh area, but I haven't been able to make a connection yet. Oh, and Janet was born in Drumelzier.
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: sancti on Tuesday 11 July 17 10:16 BST (UK)
Birth registered in Biggar

BOA
MARION

1858
623/ 45
Biggar
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 11 July 17 12:28 BST (UK)
Looks like mother & dau 1861..

Piece: SCT1861/761 Place: Glenholm -Peebles-shire Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Glenholm Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: Glenholm
Folio: 0 Page: 3 Schedule: 19
Address: Whiterigg

Page 0/4       

BOA Janet, Servnt, U, 40, General Servant Peebles-shire - Drumelzier           
WILSON Marion, Dau, 2, Lanarkshire - Biggar, Servant J.B's dau

1871

Piece: SCT1871/767 Place: Newlands -Peebles-shire Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: Newlands Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: Newlands
Folio: 0 Page: 6 Schedule: 19
Address: Blaircochrane

BOE   Janet    Servnt U 33 Kitchenmaid, Peebles-shire - Stobo           
WILSON Marion Visitr 11   Scholar, Lanarkshire - Biggar

They are in a large household headed by..

SCOTT William Head M    M 45    Farmer 330 Ac, Emp 5 Lab, Midlothian - Penicuik, 5 rooms


Was Marion's mother alive or deceased on either marriages?
Can you give dates of each/both please with whether alive or deceased?

Was her mother married on either marriages?

This should give you her mother's married surname to look for that marriage & death.


Annie

   
    
        
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: nazchk on Tuesday 11 July 17 19:26 BST (UK)
  Hello again. The Stobo link is one I hadn't came across so thankyou for that. Marion was married to John Hay in 1884, at Biggar. Janet Boa is listed as her mother. No fathers name listed. She was divorced in 1892. Marion then married Patrick Connelly in 1898. She is recorded as widow. Again only her mothers name is there. However, when Marion died in 1930, her parents are recorded as John Wilson and Janet Wilson m/s Boa. I've never managed to find a marriage cert for Janet. I did find her in the Poor Relief records in the Mitchell Library.  In 1899, she was claiming poor relief. She had a son John, age 47, and Marion, by then married to Pat, and another son, William, age 37. William later changed his surname to Steele. The records also say Janet was illegitimate and her mothers name was Mary. ( assume Boa )  Janet was sent to Peebles poorhouse and died there in 1902. On the entry in the poor records Janets place of birth is given as Bellspool, Biggar, but census records show Drumelzier.
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: nazchk on Tuesday 11 July 17 19:30 BST (UK)
Just had a closer look at the 1871 entry. Janet is 33? yet she was 40 in 1861? Either she's knocked 10 years off her age or maybe this Janet is an aunt?
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: Forfarian on Tuesday 11 July 17 21:04 BST (UK)
Quote from: nazchk on Tuesday 11 July 17 19:30 BST (UK)
Just had a closer look at the 1871 entry. Janet is 33? yet she was 40 in 1861? Either she's knocked 10 years off her age or maybe this Janet is an aunt?
Are you looking at transcriptions or original images?
Title: Re: Glenholm
Post by: nazchk on Wednesday 12 July 17 23:14 BST (UK)
No, I was looking at the details posted by Rosinish. I think they might be from census?