COMPLETED- '41, '61, 71 Dumfries - Penpont and Thornhill - Census

[Jamjar]

Greetings,

Could someone look up the following for me, please?

James and Margaret McMillan - They were at Penpont on the '51 census. James was a blacksmith.

Marion Dawson - nee McMillan and daughter of the above. She was married to James Dawson and on the '51 census they were living in Drumlarig st, Thornhill. She remarried as a widow in 1872, so may be alone, or with daughter Agnes.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Ta, Janice

[runningbear]

hi pal,

1841- drumlanrig street

james...age 56...farmer
janet...age 20
thomas...age 20
agnes...age 15
william...age 14
james...age 12
marion...age 10


1841- penpont villiage

james...age 35...blacksmith
margaret...age 34
robert...age 14
marion...age 12
william...age 8
john...age 6
james...age 4
walter...age 2
george...age 1


always searching

Joe

[Jamjar]

You're a star Joe. 

Just have one question, is the first family Dawson?

The second is my Marion's McMillan family.

Thanks heaps,

Jamjar

[runningbear]

hi pal,

sorry about that, yes the first is the dawson family.

Joe

[runningbear]

hi pal,

do not know if you have this already?

james mcmillan born 1806 penpont

margaret gillispie born 1811 penpont

mcmillan children of marriage

robert-1827
marion-1/11/1828
william-1833
john-1834
james linken-1836
walter-1838
george-1840
alexander-1844
kirkpatrick-1846

all mcmillan children born penpont.


Joe

[runningbear]

hi pal,

also found this:

marriage...james and marion...21/12/1849...morton by thornhill.



always searching

Joe

[Jamjar]

That brilliant, Joe! 

Once again many thanks.

We are off to the Dumfries library to seek and search more info. I have the McMillan's headstone photographed. Marion isn't on it and she isn't buried with her second hubby. Maybe she is with James.

Jamjar

[runningbear]

hi pal,

best of luck at the library, keep us all up to date on your find,


always searching

Joe

[Jamjar]

Have found all the information required.

The library and burials department didn't have a burial site listed for James Dawson or Marion nee McMillan, Dawson, Jardine. So, we decided to go to Greenpark cemetery- Gatelawbridge via Thornhill, where James' family was buried. One step away from their headstone, was standing an equally impressive one for James and Marion! It was nearly 6ft tall, easy to read and enclosed in a wrought iron fence with James' family.

It makes one wonder how the recorders of these things miss them.

It turns out, Joe, that James' father was William. It is my James aged 12, on the census, but he and his siblings seem to have been raised by their uncle James. Thanks again for your help.

Also found the McMillan family and Penpont cemetery.

Jamjar