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Lanarkshire / Re: Drill Hall Carluke - Edmonstone
« on: Saturday 20 January 18 11:44 GMT (UK) »
THank you - even though it's some years late in thanking you! I've just got back into my genealogy and so this is very helpful!
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Lanarkshire / Drill Hall Carluke - Edmonstone
« on: Thursday 26 August 10 16:30 BST (UK) »
Hello all - I'm a newbie so pls be gentle with me!
My maiden name was Edmonstone and I've used Scotlands People website massively to trace back my family tree to the early 1800s. At present I am looking at a branch of a great great uncle who was John Edmonstone, a Colour Sergeant in the Light Infantry based at the Drill Hall in Carluke in the early 1900s. He has quite a tragic (and I'm sure all too common) story in terms of the number of children he had that died very young. I found a gravestone picture online just yesterday with details of himself and 6 of his kids that died.
John himself died in 1910 aged 45, his wife died in 1917 but from the births I have found there were two surviving children. Janet Shaw Edmonstone, born 1905 and Maggie Edmonstone, born 1903. I have found a death cert for Janet in 1986 (no marriage) but cant find any more trace of Maggie, no marriage or deaths. I've looked on Ancestry to see if there are any English records but also to no avail.
Sooooo...anyone have any ideas where I can go next with my search for her? And also where I could find out more about what would have happened to them, given that they would have been only 14 and 12 when their mother died. I've googled the Drill Hall in Carluke but also cant find much info about that.
Any advice from experts will be gratefully received!!
Rachel
My maiden name was Edmonstone and I've used Scotlands People website massively to trace back my family tree to the early 1800s. At present I am looking at a branch of a great great uncle who was John Edmonstone, a Colour Sergeant in the Light Infantry based at the Drill Hall in Carluke in the early 1900s. He has quite a tragic (and I'm sure all too common) story in terms of the number of children he had that died very young. I found a gravestone picture online just yesterday with details of himself and 6 of his kids that died.
John himself died in 1910 aged 45, his wife died in 1917 but from the births I have found there were two surviving children. Janet Shaw Edmonstone, born 1905 and Maggie Edmonstone, born 1903. I have found a death cert for Janet in 1986 (no marriage) but cant find any more trace of Maggie, no marriage or deaths. I've looked on Ancestry to see if there are any English records but also to no avail.
Sooooo...anyone have any ideas where I can go next with my search for her? And also where I could find out more about what would have happened to them, given that they would have been only 14 and 12 when their mother died. I've googled the Drill Hall in Carluke but also cant find much info about that.
Any advice from experts will be gratefully received!!
Rachel
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