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Title: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: paul_mc on Saturday 24 February 18 23:49 GMT (UK)
Hello

I'm hoping someone will be able to help with this one

I'm looking for some ancestors who moved to the USA

William Waterson born 1843 who moved to New York the last piece of information I have on him is that he left Glasgow. Scotland to New York, USA on board the Bolivia. Sep 21 1889

Paul
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 25 February 18 08:45 GMT (UK)
Have you got the parents names ?  Were there any other siblings relatives in the USA or Canada ?

Sandra
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: Skoosh on Sunday 25 February 18 13:23 GMT (UK)
Paul, for an idea of their crossing, see R.L.Stevenson's,  "An Amateur Emigrant!" his story of sailing from the Clyde to New York around that time. Available online.

Skoosh.
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: Christine53 on Sunday 25 February 18 14:05 GMT (UK)
Please could you confirm whether the name is Waterston or Waterson - you have both in your post.
I haven't been able to find him under either name on a passenger list .
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: RJ137 on Sunday 25 February 18 15:34 GMT (UK)
This appears to be the William & "Waterston" family in question.

Hope this gives others some background.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=780237.0

Also.... the 2nd reply in that thread has this: 1880, not 1889

"There is also an immigration record for a William Waterston, age 40, departing Glasgow on the vessel Bolivia for New York, arriving there on 21 September 1880"
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: RJ137 on Sunday 25 February 18 16:33 GMT (UK)
Assuming this the correct William in question.

This appears to be the immigration record for William on the SS Bolivia in 1880.

He appears to be married with four children.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSK-GMG5
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: Christine53 on Sunday 25 February 18 16:34 GMT (UK)
Quote from: RJ137 on Sunday 25 February 18 15:34 GMT (UK)
This appears to be the William & "Waterston" family in question.

Hope this gives others some background.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=780237.0

Also.... the 2nd reply in that thread has this: 1880, not 1889

"There is also an immigration record for a William Waterston, age 40, departing Glasgow on the vessel Bolivia for New York, arriving there on 21 September 1880"

Thank you for that - saves wasting any more time !  >:(
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 25 February 18 17:45 GMT (UK)
and not divulging full information....................William Waterston aged 40 years travelling with a Mrs Waterston aged 30 years - Edmund Waterston 11 years, John Waterston aged 8 years,
James 5 years and Wm 1 year. ??????????????????????????????????

Sandra
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 25 February 18 18:09 GMT (UK)
Reply 1 - the other thread gave a William Watterson in Blantyre in 1871 as a boarder but with no family showing.

 "William Watterson (sic) subsequently appears in the 1871 Scotland Census age 29, born Blantyre, Lanarkshire, occupation joiner, boarder in the Bryden household at at 26 Annfield St, High Church, Glasgow"

Sandra
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 25 February 18 18:21 GMT (UK)
Have you checked this marriage ..........................  ???

William Waterson -  Mary Ann  Stott Waterston 1869 - 296/ 1 - Kinnell

a birth

David Stott Waterston - M - 1869 - 283/ 9 - Dunnichen

or Wm Waterson married Sarah Crockett - 8 November 1869 - Audrain,Missouri

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28S-77V

First 4 children on this census have names which loosely fit and seem to be the ones on that 1880 passenger list.  Unlikely to be your Waterston family though.

in the 1891 census -Newton Bank Forfar ( perhaps not the location your William was born)

William Waterston   50 born Forfar.
Sarah M Waterston   42 born Missouri.
David E Waterston   20 Born 1871 Missouri. USA.
John J Waterston   19 Born 1872 Missouri. USA
James A Waterston   17 Born 1874 Missouri. USA.
William Waterston   11 Born 1880 Forfar. Scotland.
Maud M Waterston   9 Born 1882 Forfar. Scotland.
Thomas Waterston   7 Born 1884 Forfar.  Scotland.
Herbert Waterston   5 Born 1886 Forfar. Scotland.
Robert Waterston   4 Born 1887 Forfar. Scotland.
Ernest Waterston   8 Months. Born 1890 Forfar. Scotland.
Isabella F H Low   19 Servant.
Agnes D Livie   7 Servant.

Sandra
Title: Re: Waterston's of Hamilton, Scotland who moved to New York
Post by: *Sandra* on Sunday 25 February 18 18:26 GMT (UK)
David Edmund Waterston 11 August 1870 passed away 8 December 1941 is listed on FIND A GRAVE and buried in Lick Creek Cemetery  Perry, Ralls County, Missouri with a wife called Ivy - Ivy C Spratswell Waterston - 11 September 1869 - 22 April 1958

David E Waterston married in Ralls, Missouri, 15 March 1894.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68099807

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68100375/ivy-c-waterston

Other family members also ended up back in the USA  ???

John J Waterston - 15 April 1872 - 23 September 1942


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68100779

Thomas Waterston - 15 January 1884 - 14 October 1976

Burial -   Grand View Burial Park  Hannibal, Ralls County, Missouri.
PLOT H-098-2

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114687560

Ernest Waterston - 19 July 1890 - 8 July 1958 Yolo Californonia.

Burial -   Odd Fellows Lawn Cemetery and Mausoleum  Sacramento, Sacramento County, California,
Plot Sec. C Lot 55 Gr 31

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64628948

Herbert Waterston - 6 January 1886 - 8 March 1969

Burial -   Grand View Burial Park  Hannibal, Ralls County, Missouri.
PLOT E-340-6

BURIAL  Grand View Burial Park  Hannibal, Ralls County, Missouri, USA
PLOT E-340-6

Parents were William Waterston and Sarah M Crockett.

William Waterston Snr - passed away 25 Feb 1898 - probate 3 May 1898  Forfar, Scotland
Confirmation granted at Forfar to John Edmund Waterston Peery Ralls County Missouri USA. William Gordon solicitor and John Melvin grocer there. nominated in will or deed 1 February 1877 and codicil 5 September 1879.




Sandra