Thomas and Margaret Smith

[Gadget]

Still problems with the Smiths - and so many on the Shipping lists 

Anyway, the Blaikies/Bleakies:

Marriage, 1 July 1859, Hawick  - James Bleakie and Seton Lawrie

IGI (extracted) www.familysearch.og

There is a submitted record for Seton's birth but no real info - just b. 1832 d. 1905 Hawick.

The marriage cert would be on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk It's pay to view but pretty reasonable. The cert would cost £1.20 or equiv. You have to register and buy credits in min of £6 blocks (1 credit = 20p).

I'll look up the 1851 census to see if James and Seton are with parents.


Gadget

[Gadget]

This looks like the Lawries in 1851:

5 Teviot Crescent Hawick
District 789 ED 5  P 3

James Lawrie, 50,Woollen frame work knitter, b. Thornhill, Dumfriesshire
Mary, 47, b. Thornhill
James, 25,Woollen frame work knitter
Jannet, 25, worsted stocking seamer
Seaton, 19, Woollen frame work knitter
John, 17, Woollen frame work knitter
Wilhelmina, 7
Margaret Bell, niece, 14 Woolen stocking seamer
Walter Wilson,,  grdson, 1

All b. Hawick except James and Mary Lawrie


Gadget

[Gadget]

1851

Laidlaw Place, Wilton
District 810 ED 1 Page 1


Janet Blaikie, 48, winder - woollen yarn , b. Hownam
Robert, 21, mason (app)
James, 19, woollen hand loom weaver
Margaret, 16, woollen turner
Joseph, 10, pauper - scholar

all except Janet b. Wilton

[hume]

Hi artimus and Gadget,

It may be worth trying to find Thomas (perhaps Margaret & John too) in the 1911 Canadian census. It's available to search and view here: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/index.jsp. Lots of Smiths though, but it may help narrow down when they emigrated over.

hume24

[Gadget]

1841 Listed together with a Scott family:

Wilton Bank No 5, Wilton
District 810 ED 1 Page 10

Robert Bleakie, 48, Stocking M J Wool
Janet, 38
Robert, 11, Winder Yarn - Wool
James, 8
George, 6
Margaret, 5
Jospeh, 1

all b. Roxburghshire

Thanks ,  hume


Gadget

[Gadget]

Marriage IGI extracted:

Wilton 15 Feb 1829  Robert Bleakie and Janet Rutherford

[Gadget]

There is a death record for a Mary Lawrie, aged 72, Hawick in 1876. Other name is Lyon. This could be the Mary m. Robert Lawrie.

Death cert can be obtained from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk  as before.  This should give her parents' names.

Gadget

[Gadget]

arti ~

Do you know where Thomas  might have been in 1911.I  do have access to the full census of Canada and I'm trying to work out which District/County  of Ontario he would have been in.


Gadget

[hume]

Gadget, I think I've found the Smith family in 1881. It explains why Thomas' birth wasn't showing! Looks like the Smiths might have came from a military background.

Also think I've found Isabella (nee Morrison)'s death ... died 1911, parents given as Daniel Morrison, labourer and Janet m.s. Kavin (?)

Address: 2 Heronhill Terrace, Hawick, Roxburghshire
John James Smith, m, head, 49, woollen hand loom weaver, b. Malta
Isabella ", f, wife, 43, -, b. Kirkcown, Wigtownshire
Janet ", f, dau., woollen power loom weaver, b. Dumfries
Mary Ann ", f, dau., bobbin machine tender, b. Sedgefield, Durham, England
Thomas ", m, son, 11, scholar, b. Sedgefield, Durham, England
Caroline ", f, dau., 10, scholar, b. Dumfries
Esther ", f, dau., 6, scholar, b. Hawick

hume24