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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:26 BST (UK) »
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:18 BST (UK) »
Here she is on Findagrave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35572570/jane-henderson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35572570/jane-henderson
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:15 BST (UK) »
Lisa that is excellent thank you - I hadn't got any further than ScotlandsPeople. So it seems that mother Mary, brother James and Jane herself all ended up in Trenton, New Jersey.
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:13 BST (UK) »
Hi Kloumann - neither of those death references check out unluckily. Both of these Johns have different parents to my John. Now to check the census!
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:10 BST (UK) »
Could well be the case - I have seen these marriage records be very wrong as well (sometimes purposefully). I note that my great grandfather was probably church organist at their wedding, as a small aside...
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 12:05 BST (UK) »
Found the newspaper thanks! And Robert Anderson Henderson was born in Dundee on 30 June 1854, to the same parents as on the marriage certificate. We are doing very well in filling out Jane Ballantyne Melrose's life. I suspect they went to South Africa however, as I can't find a death record for her in ScotlandsPeople.
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 11:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Maddy - that is definitely her. She has mother Mary Middlemass and father John Melrose, master draper, but the wedding certificate says nothing about him being deceased. It does say he is of Peebles however...
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 11:36 BST (UK) »
Hi Maddy - that could very well be her. Is the Southern Reporter a South African paper? Can you provide me with a link? Her brother John definitely was in Queenstown, South Africa by then - I am guessing circa 1890, as he married that year in Queenstown, and her father apparently dead sometime between 1891 and 1901 (from Mary's censuses). That would narrow his death to between 1891 and 1897.
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United States of America / Re: Who is John Melrose in NYC 1870, and what happened to him?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 11:32 BST (UK) »
I have a James Melrose in a slightly different branch of the tree, born in 1847, who arrives in Hartford, Connecticut by 1870. He would have been an agricultural labourer going over, but somewhere along the line, he and his brother John reinvented themselves as cigar and liquor merchants. Wonder if that is your James in the 1869 voyage?