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« on: Sunday 22 January 17 19:40 GMT (UK) »
I would like to find out more about the Sconce family in Stirling. The branch I am interested is focussed around Robert Sconce, Writer, later Sheriff-Substitute of Stirlingshire:
Mentioned in 1841 Census as aged 30, Writer, at Park Lodge
Mentioned in 1851 Census as aged 41, Writer, Sheriff-Substitute of Stirlingshire, at Southfield
Mentioned in 1871 Census as aged 61, Sheriff-Substitute of Stirlingshire, at Viewfield, Springbank
Robert Sconce m, 4/6/1832 Agnes Colquhoun
Robert, b 1/5/1833
Gideon Colquhoun, b 27/11/1834
James, b 2/4/1836
Helen Colquhoun, b 26/9/1838 [? married Thomas Galbraith??] [?son William b1862?]
Robert Archibald, b 8/8/1840 [??d 1843??]
One branch of the Sawers family produced John Sawers (1790-1853), also a writer who, I’m pretty sure, formed the solicitors’ partnership Sawers & Sconce, to which a more direct ancestor of mine, Robert Sawers (1821-1879) was apprenticed as a youngster.
Is anyone researching the Sconce family?
Are you a direct descendant?
Do you have any further information about the links between the Sconces and the Sawerses?