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Little Nell, I note that the census you provided me for Alexander and Marion was the 1881.  Is it possible for you to provide me with the 1871 for them at the same address?

Also, with regard to to Jessie Gardner, could you provide me with the 1871 census at the 29 Hallcraig Street address or Chapelhall or Bothwell?

Butterlily

Jessie Gardner (widow of James Gardner - a master joiner) died May 26, 1881 (aged 63) at Nalleraig (?) Street, Airdrie.  I assume she would have been presiding at this address at the time of the 1881 census.  Her son was James Gardner.  Any information as to others residing at this address would be appreciated.

If she was not at this address at time of census, she could have been at either Chapelhall or Bothwell.  Her daughter was Marion Laidlaw Gardner who married Alexander Thomson in Chapelhall, Parish of Bothwell on 11 June 1868.

Hello Ken, Thank you for your reply.

Well at least the families were only two streets away.  So as you say, they very well could have known each other.

With regard to your contacts in USA.  My father told me once that his mother Elizabeth Moffatt Matthews (nee Russell) went to America from ?Scotland with her brother William McKenzie Russell when she was 19  in ?1887  and worked for 6 years in the town of Winsted, Connecticut.  She also had a sister Mary who sent postcards to her sister in New Zealand depicting the First Congregational Church, Winsted referring to it as a new church and that the Methodists had a new church too.  Also that she worked with the
Episcolpal Minister Mr ?Linsberg. or Linsley and another postcard of the Court House, Hamilton, Ontario.  I do not know what happened to Mary and her brother William (we think he was a watchmaker.)   He might have died around about 1894.

Elizabeth also had a sister Isabella who married William Crawford in Airdrie, New Monkland in 1987. 

Looking forward to any further info you may have with regard to the above.

Thank you Ken

Best wishes - Lynette

Hello Annie.  Thank you for the trouble you have gone to to supply us with info on the "Ruapehu".  Much appreciated.

Butterlily

Thank you Meliora for your reply.  We appreciate the effort you have made on our behalf.  Is there any possibility of finding out for us the name of the mother of our ggm Elizabeth MATTHEWS.  Her father's name was William MATTHEWS and she was born 11 August 1832.  Thomas N MATTHEWS and Elizabeth MATTHEWS were married on 27 January 1857.