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Kenjo

Document size solved..reduced size to 11 inches by 8.5 inches and still readable ...(done at Photocopy shop) & will now fit on my scanner. 
Thanks for working so hard to help me.
 I really appreciate everyone helping.

Safarina

I had just put in the earlier post what it had on the certificate...But this should answer you question as to the Gilmour name. I guess I forget that all this info I have in front of me isn't there for everyone else to see....sorry for confusion.

HENRY NICOL 
         b abt 1834   
         m.  14 JUL 1854   Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland   
               Sp. CHRISTINA WHITE   
                 b. chr. 15 Nov 1832, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
                      dau of Christian Gilmour/Robert White (m.Nov 17,1820) 
       
       Christina White’s  parent’s
                     Mother: Christian GILMOUR 
                     Father: Robert (White) WHYTE 

Safarina

KENJO

I'm not sure....why Robert would  give the incorrect name for his father on the Marriage Certificate....we "assumed" he still didn't want the association with the "Nicol" name, and because he, himself was known as Robert White, he gave his father's name as Henry-Galbraith White.....(  hairdresser)....(no idea where the "Galbraith" came from?)

He also made himself 4 yrs younger & his wife Jane Scott 7 yrs older.
We as family here felt that they didn't want her (Jane Scott)'s family to know that the drunken Barber in town was his father.
(Jane was daughter of Archibald Scott & Ann Henderson, and I have no info on them yet other than Archie was a miner)

Robert did give his mother's name correctly as Christina White (M.S.Gilmour -deceased) (note--Gilmour was Her mother's name, not her's)     (note: Christina's death was "Temperance-Sudden" in 1874)

At the time of Robert & Jane's marriage in 1890 Robert was living at 30 Elder street, Govan and Jane was at 26 White Street, Govan

 Robert's father Henry & Margaret (Mary) Nicol were at 295 Stirling Road Shop, Govan ..same address as on Henry's Death Certificate.
Both Henry & "Mary" were known as "Drunken people" according to the prior Poor Law application.

I have no idea where Robert's brother & sisters were.

I have the "large" marriage certificate of Robert & Jane and "large" birth certificates of some of their children & Army records that were kept in our family's possessions, but havent figured out how to make them smaller & still readable for my files or on the computer.

Thanks for the email...it just arrived.

Safarina

Hi,

Does the 1841 census state that Henry is a grandson....I wonder what happened to his parents? (dead? in Jail? gone to greener pastures?)

The info I'm receiving is sure helping to answer a lot of questions as to where Henry was.....I now have some of the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 Census and am looking forward to knowing when Henry died.

Henry's first wife was Christina White, and I have her death record of Aug 29, 1874.

The Poor Law Application of 1889 states that Henry 55 yrs married Mary Cross June 15, 1875 (dau. of Thomas Cross & Isabella Hay)

(The Margaret Nicol wife of  Henry on the 1881 census would have to be the "Mary" Cross ....so it looks like the application should have read "Margaret" instead of Mary? )

Henry was born in Rottenrow, Glasgow  (date unknown?)

Henry's parents are listed as Thomas Nicol & Mary Ramsay (both dead at time of this application)..but this also could be the Margaret Ramsay that we have found?

Safarina

I am still trying to find more of my Nicol line and now I'm concerned that as a newbie a short time ago  I may have wrongly placed too many  "Topics"  between the Beginners and here.....

All of the repies I received on other posts have been most helpful & set me on the right track with the Nicol's & got me off the wrong trail I was on with some Whyte's.    Thanks to everyone!

Please help me straighten this out ..The first post here is what I am actually seeking help with at the moment....but it may be helpful to anyone wanting to help,  to read some of my other posts. You'll see how confused I've been and why I need a little assistance in researching.

Safarina