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The Common Room / Re: Margaret Helen McRae Robertson Cowper
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 10:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Yes checked both of those and she was not one of those. I sat at a computer screen for about 4 hours at the records office in Edinburgh until I was going cross eyed

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The Common Room / Re: Margaret Helen McRae Robertson Cowper
« on: Friday 30 November 18 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
I have checked every variation of her name and have not been able to find any record of her death. I now know that she died between 1940 (when she reported her husband's death) and 1962 when her youngest child married and she was shown as deceased on the marriage certificate. It even got to the point where I checked every woman of the right age - give or take a few years - that died during those years.

I even found a fourth child no-one knew about who has also sadly died in recent years. The plot thickens!

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The Common Room / Re: Margaret Helen McRae Robertson Cowper
« on: Wednesday 21 November 18 23:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Yes Margaret was Hughina and Alexander’s illegitimate daughter. I think Alexander was killed in WW1 but I am not absolutely certain

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The Common Room / Margaret Helen McRae Robertson Cowper
« on: Wednesday 21 November 18 20:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I am looking for any information on the very elusive lady named above - she was my grandmother and seems to have disappeared into thin air after 1940. She was born in 1906 in Nairn and her name was Margaret Helen McRae. Her mother was Hughina McRae and her father was Alexander McIntosh. Hughina disappears after 1907 and Margaret (known as Peggy) went to live with her father's family in Buckie. They were William and Jessie Robertson (Alexander McIntosh was Jessie's nephew).

Peggy names William and Jessie as her parents when she marries Robert Watson Cowper in 1927.  Peggy and her husband have 3 children before Robert dies in 1940. After then she just evaporates. Her eldest two (Robert - my dad - and his sister Jessie) go into care. Until just a few weeks ago I knew nothing about the existence of a third child - Georgina Cathro Cowper born in 1939. Sadly all three of Peggy's children have died.

I have been trying to trace Granny for almost a decade with no luck. No trace of a remarriage or  death record. She was last known to be living in the Pollock area of Glasgow although she was born and raised in Nairn/Buckie.

Any help or info would be gratefully received

Tina

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Moray (Elginshire) / Re: Jessie Robertson b 1901 Forres lived in Buckie
« on: Tuesday 20 November 18 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Seoni

I am sorry that it has taken me so long to find this but I can help you with regards to Peggy. Peggy is/was Margaret Helen MacRae and she was the illegitimate daughter of Hughina MacRae and Alexander McIntosh - Alexander was the illegitimate son of Ann McIntosh who was Jessie Robertson's sister. I do not know what happened to Hughina apart from that she went into the poorhouse in 1907 which is presumably Peggy went to live with William and Jessie.

Peggy was my grandmother. She married Robert Watson Cowper in 1927 and they had 3 children - their son Robert being my dad. She names William and Jessie as her parents on her marriage certificate. Her husband died in early 1940 leaving her with 3 children of her own and one of them was only 2 months old. The two eldest went into the care system and neither of them saw or heard from her again. All three of her children have now died. I have tried for years to trace her but she seems to have vanished into thin air. I would give my eye teeth to know what happened to her and to her mother. But everyone who would have been able to help seems to passed away. Great shame.

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