Margaret Fleming/James Ferguson

[runningbear]

ooooaaaa monica!!! is that the answer to catherine running back and forth to glasgow?

Joe

[oldbear]

Good detective work Monica! I have a feeling James would have been born around 1828 (he was 27 when Catherine was born in 1855) so might have been a little older than 46 in 1881 but I guess these things were a bit vague at that time to say the least! I can't get him on the 1871 census at Broughton Street, I think you could be right and he has married again. Trouble is the man could be anywhere! Glasgow seems possible since Catherine has her children there.... My head is starting to birl  Help??

[oldbear]

Perhaps I should move this to the Edinburgh threads?

[MonicaL]

I'd keep this thread running until Joe and I run out of ideas for you. It's the way it goes, you start looking in one area and find yourself moving around.

When was Catherine having her children in Glasgow?

[runningbear]

wonder if james was ever married?

found this on the 1851 census, wonder if you can make sense of it monica

1851 census; neilson, barrhead (household of bridget boyle)

james...lodger...age 26...shoemaker...born ireland


Joe

[oldbear]

She had my g-grandfather James Ferguson on June 22nd 1874 at 13 Graeme Street in Glasgow. In 1875 she married a James Coutts in Leith, Edinburgh and had Harry Coutts in September 1876 at 25 Havannah Street Glasgow. Jane Ferguson Coutts was born in 1881 in Leith (40 Tolbooth Wynd) but in the 1881 census the family are at 40 Old Sugar House Close - unless this is the same street.

[MonicaL]

  We're on the right track. Mary Ferguson married Michael Rogan in 1877 in Calton Glasgow. Mother Margaret Fleming, dec., father James, shoemaker.

1877   ROGAN   MICHAEL   FERGUSON   MARY   CALTON   GLASGOW CITY/LANARK   644/04 0271

Monica

[oldbear]

Pure genius!!

[oldbear]

So after Margaret died in 1863 James married Jane and his daughter Mary married Michael Rogan and they all live at 13 Old assembly Close by 1881. Right, I'm off to Scotlands People, where's the credit card....


Thank you Monica, you're a star!

Ruth