“The Walter Wilson in Hawick is not yours, I am sorry to say. He was in Selkirk in 41 and 51.
I repeat: there was no Walter Wilson in Selkirk in 1841. In 1851 Walter Wilson, aged 28, baker, was in Selkirk. If you don't believe me, go to
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and see for yourself by viewing the original document. Barbara or whoever told you that was giving you wrong information.
Walter Wilson Jnr (Brett's Gt. Grandfather who left from Selkirk to Melbourne was the illegitimate child of Wilhelmina Bell and Walter Wilson, Baker in Hawick not Walter Wilson, Cabinetmaker) who was married to Isabella Richardson).
Walter Wilson who went to Australia was the son of Walter Wilson,
CABINETMAKER in Hawick. His baptism record is perfectly clear and legible.
Walter Wilson, Baker in Hawick is not a member of my Wilson family.
He is probably some sort of cousin of Walter Wilson, cabinetmaker, but that is neither here nor there. The point is that he is NOT the father of Wilhelmina Bell's son, born in 1823.
1. He was married in 1821 and had children by his wife in 1822 and 1824.
2. He was a baker and Wilhelmina's son's father was a
cabinetmaker.
3. His son Walter was born in 1824 and was living with his parents in 1851.
4. He died in 1849, three years before Wilhelmina's son wrote a letter to his father in Hawick.
5. His son Walter Wiilson, born 1824, was a baker, living in Hawick in 1861 with his mother and three siblings,
AFTER Wilhemina's son had emigrated
No Brett's Walter Wilson had a Sister, Jessie Wilson but it was not the Jessie Wilson married to Hobkirk. Brett writes: " Walter Snr. and Wilhelmina Bell had 6 or 7 children: Walter Wilson Jnr.(Brett's illegitimate Gt. Grandfather), Fergus Wilson, Ann Wilson, James Wilson, Jessie Wilson, Wilhemina Wilson, and possibly an Isabella Wilson also.
Those siblings are not Wilsons, they are Elliots; Wilhelmina's children by her husband Robert Elliot. That is why I have asked Brett to post an image of the whole of the page of the family bible.
So, this is not Jessie Hobkirk (nee Wilson), this is Jessie Wilson, Daughter of the Baker named Walter Wilson in Hawick.
The death certificate of Jessie Hobkirk, née Wilson, says that her parents are Walter Wilson, master cabinetmaker, and Jessie Wilson, maiden surname Grey.
Jessie Wilson, daughter of Walter Wilson, baker in Hawick, was one year old in the 1841 census. Therefore she was born in 1839/1840, and was not old enough to marry in 1849.
Forfarian, I think you need to see things from my perspective for a moment.
Why? What I see is you clinging doggedly to information that is just plain wrong in a desperate attempt to prove that Brett is not descended from an illegitimate line of your family. Something it is impossible to prove either way unless possibly by DNA.
I really don't care whether or not Brett and you are related to one another or to these assorted 'famous' people, as neither of you is related to me at all. I do care that you are using misinformation and a wilful disregard for FACTS in a vain attempt to further your vendetta, and that you have not bothered to check any of your information by looking up the original records on Scotland's People as any reasonably compenent genealogist would have done.