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In regard to Elizabeth T. Muirhead, I suspect it's an error and this should read Isabella T. Muirhead. According to Ard, she was buried Feb. 11, 1878. Is the burial near the Robert Douglas clan?

Isabella's infant daughter Elizabeth Douglas Muirhead also died in 1878, (MUIRHEAD ELIZABETH DOUGLAS, 0 (mother's ms HAMILTON) F 1878 628 / 244 CAMBUSNETHAN) so both mother and daughter died the same year - perhaps they were even buried at the same time and in the record the names of Isabella and Elizabeth were accidentally were conflated to create a single name!)

Trying to get a handle on all these Douglases!
RE:
ELIZABETH T. MUIRHEAD, Wishaw, aged 25 years.
Parents - William Hamilton & Elizabeth Douglas.
11th February 1878.

According to Scotland's People it was Isabella not Elizabeth who died in
(1878 age 25 1878 MUIRHEAD/HAMILTON ISABELLA TELFOR age 25 mother m.n. DOUGLAS
628 / 45 CAMBUSNETHAN)

 

I certainly appreciate all that I have learned through your generous offerings on many subjects and have referred back to them multiple times over the years...  decades, even!

I solved another mystery just yesterday (although it makes for a new one):
In Cambusnethan Cemetery Grave Search - Part 2 ( Reply #123 on: Thursday 07 January 16) you had included a "Not too sure about the next 2 but just in case" (never underestimate those "just in case" entries!!!) for which you included inscriptions for two children of a George Brownlie and Janet Halliday.

What made these so mysterious is that there was of course the George Brownlie (s/o George Brownlie and Elisabeth King) who married a Violet Halliday!

Might there be an error in the records, I wondered - was Janet really Violet? Never one to give up, I discovered that Janet was the daughter of a Martin Halliday (1811-1861) and Catherine McMillan who married 1834 (Old Monkland). So now I also have the names of her six siblings!
However, I don't know who HER George Brownlie's parents were.
I also don't know how (or if) Martin Halliday may relate to "my" Hallidays!

Interesting that you have a connection to Margaret Halliday and John Gray, albeit indirect. You are correct - I am now fully confident that Margaret (and violet) were first cousins of my ggg grandfather John Halliday 1802-1853 (who m. to Elizabeth Blair Dick). He was one of the many coal miners to tragically die prematurely of a mine-related accident. A hard life that I can only try to imagine.

It was their daughter, my gg-grandmother Agnes Halliday who m. James Leggat (1841-1921). They eventually moved to Cumberland but sometime after Agnes died, James moved back to Wishaw and even married again late in life. His parents were James Leggat (b about 1816 Cambusnethan) and Jane Frew, and, based on his father's death record, his grandparents were James Leggat (a solider) and Janet Gilchrist!

I'm not aware of a Leggat-Paterson connected to "my" Leggats but beyond James Leggat who married Jane Frew, the branch is so far pretty sparse...
 
The information that I have gathered on Archibald and Robert Halliday is that they were brothers born in Perth to a Thomas Halliday and Anne Campbell. I don't know if they had other siblings. While Archibald and Marion's 12 children are quite well documented, that's not the case for Robert and Margaret (Williamson) who *I'm assuming* married in Crawford, where Margaret was apparently from and where two of their children, john and Agnes (1806) were born. I only know of their daughter Violet (cousin to the Violet who married Geo Brownlie) because of her 1839 death record, showing that she must have been born in about 1817.

So you can see why I thought there must have been other children but finding definitive records for them has been a challenge. One of the clues that helped me confirm that Thomas (b c1812) was their son was that he named a daughter Margaret Williamson Halliday! Thomas also married a Brownlie. From what I can gather, I figure she must be the daughter of Robert Brownlee and Marion Davidson. How all these Brownlies relate is still unclear. It's probably a fairly common name, isn't it?


I'm wondering now if, while compiling a tree for your nephew, you have found anything else on the ancestry of Robert and Archibald? Please feel free to email me if you would like to compare notes!!

Note: my postscript modifications are meant as clarifications!

For anyone who is interested, the entire collection has been digitized and can be accessed from here:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/359031?availability=Family%20History%20Library

As amazing as ever, Lodger and the Rootschat team! In relation to the Hallidays, I have a little puzzle on my hands. I have already been helped enormously with my related Hallidays on this site but I don't know if I have asked for this one (if I have, forgive me!)

My ancestor was Robert Halliday, married (probably at Crawford) to Margaret Williamson (b.Crawford -1859, Chapel buried Carluke?) and likely brother to Archibald who married Marion Penman.

Robert and Margaret had fewer children, one of which was my direct ancestor John (1804, Crawford-1853, M. Elizabeth Blair Dick 1807-1875). They also had daughters Janet (1806,Crawford -?) and Violet (C1818,?-1839 Chapel, buried Carluke). I figure they must have had other children between 1806-1818 but perhaps they simply didn't survive.

I have that a "Robert Hallowday" husband of Marion (Margaret?) Williamson, Buried 4 March aged 69 years. "Hallowday" seems to be an unusual spelling of the name but I figure this must be my ancestor Robert Halliday. (Margaret was widowed by 1851) Interestingly the same year (1856) there is another Robert Hallowday age 44 (b about 1807) buried 25/03/1851 629/30 435 Carluke ... Both with the same spelling seems more than coincidental! I have been wondering if he might have also been a child of Robert and Margaret. There is a certain continuity of place since later Halliday descendants appear to have been buried in the New Cambusnethan cemetery.

My question,is there anything in the available records that might shed some like on this little conundrum?

Ever grateful (!)

Ard

PS As far as I know, they were for the most part connected to the Relief Church as well....
PPS note: beyond what has already been revealed by: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=566572.117 ...in case there have been new discoveries? ;-)