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Scotland / Walter Stirling of Glasgow and Margaret Taylor of Rothesay - late 1700s
« on: Wednesday 10 November 10 00:23 GMT (UK) »
I am stuck trying to find information on these two - and since they came from two different counties and then moved to Canada (and then the US!) at some point, I'm unsure of where exactly to put this request!
Here is what I have, gleaned mainly from the IGI with some help from ancestry.com:
Walter Stirling, b 1 Apr 1790, in Glasgow. Alternate information lists 1794 as his birth year. died 3 Apr. 1869 in Ontario, Canada.
Margaret Taylor, b 1794 in Rothesay, Bute. Died 1865 in Illinois, USA.
They married in 1815, unknown exactly where.
They had two boys in Scotland, William (b 1816) and Walter (b 1817).
In April 1821 the four of them left for Quebec, Canada and then moved to Ontario, Canada.
They had seven more children, presumably all in Ontario, Canada however I have not been able to confirm this.
Alexander (b Sep. 1821), Margaret (b 1823), John (b 1825), David (b 1827), Mary (b 1830), Jane (b 1834) and Agnes (b 1836).
At some point in the late 1840s, most of them moved to Illinois - it looks like only Alexander stayed behind (he's my connection to the Stirlings, and all of my information on him indicates that he only lived in Canada), and that Walter moved back to Ontario, Canada sometime after the death of Margaret in Illinois.
I have a small amount of information on their immigration to Canada - from a list of Bridgeton families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the ship "George Canning" in April of 1821. It's this document that gives the 1794 birth date for Walter, and only lists his wife and first two children as "woman age 25; male children ages 3, 5". So it's entirely possible that this is a different family, however the information is "approximately" accurate.
I'm trying to a) find the parents and more accurate birth/marriage information for Walter and Margaret and their two sons born in Scotland and b) confirm that the 1821 immigration was indeed them. If anyone could offer a few suggestions, I would be very grateful. I've spent quite a lot of time fleshing out my family tree, however I get stuck every time I come back to these two!
Here is what I have, gleaned mainly from the IGI with some help from ancestry.com:
Walter Stirling, b 1 Apr 1790, in Glasgow. Alternate information lists 1794 as his birth year. died 3 Apr. 1869 in Ontario, Canada.
Margaret Taylor, b 1794 in Rothesay, Bute. Died 1865 in Illinois, USA.
They married in 1815, unknown exactly where.
They had two boys in Scotland, William (b 1816) and Walter (b 1817).
In April 1821 the four of them left for Quebec, Canada and then moved to Ontario, Canada.
They had seven more children, presumably all in Ontario, Canada however I have not been able to confirm this.
Alexander (b Sep. 1821), Margaret (b 1823), John (b 1825), David (b 1827), Mary (b 1830), Jane (b 1834) and Agnes (b 1836).
At some point in the late 1840s, most of them moved to Illinois - it looks like only Alexander stayed behind (he's my connection to the Stirlings, and all of my information on him indicates that he only lived in Canada), and that Walter moved back to Ontario, Canada sometime after the death of Margaret in Illinois.
I have a small amount of information on their immigration to Canada - from a list of Bridgeton families admitted on the Government grant as settlers in Upper Canada on the ship "George Canning" in April of 1821. It's this document that gives the 1794 birth date for Walter, and only lists his wife and first two children as "woman age 25; male children ages 3, 5". So it's entirely possible that this is a different family, however the information is "approximately" accurate.
I'm trying to a) find the parents and more accurate birth/marriage information for Walter and Margaret and their two sons born in Scotland and b) confirm that the 1821 immigration was indeed them. If anyone could offer a few suggestions, I would be very grateful. I've spent quite a lot of time fleshing out my family tree, however I get stuck every time I come back to these two!