Help Please

[dixons]

Does anyone have info re Jane or Jean Crowe b Dundonald around 1828 (or any other members of her family)?

All info welcome.

dixons

[elinga]

got this from familysearch

JANE CROW     
 Birth: 
 Christening:  06 APR 1828   Dundonald, Ayr, Scotland
 
 Parents:
 Father:  JOHN CROW  Family
 Mother:  MARY BOYLE     
 
hope this helps.
Elinga

[hume]

Just posting this link so people know a previous thread has been started.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,382799.0.html

Unfortunately the site I had posted on that thread has now closed.

Jonn kindly posted the 1841 census entry for the McMillans/Crow[e] family in May last year (although Jean couldn't be found). I have managed to find the family in 1851 which you might not have.

Address: 20 Monkey Row, Carnbroe Ironworks, Bothwell
George McMillan, m, head, 44, formerly an ironstone miner, b. Ireland
Mary McMillan, f, wife, 54, -, b. Ireland
Jean Crow, f, step-daughter, 22, tambourer, b. Dundonald, Ayrshire
Mary McMillan, f, daughter, 20, tambourer, b. Dundonald, Ayrshire

hume

[dixons]

So grateful to you both. Mary McMillan, nee Crowe was my gg grandmother. I've just tried, unsuccessfully, to trace her death details on SP. I was sidetracked previously because I was searching for Mary Crowe's death. I'm ever hopeful however.

regards,

dixons

[ankerdine]

Just ever so curious. What is a tambourer please?

Judy

[elinga]

a Tambourer was an embroiderer who used hoops to hold the cloth!

[hume]

So grateful to you both. Mary McMillan, nee Crowe was my gg grandmother. I've just tried, unsuccessfully, to trace her death details on SP. I was sidetracked previously because I was searching for Mary Crowe's death. I'm ever hopeful however.

regards,

dixons

Hi again dixons,

I can't see Mary's death on SP, so as I say, she may have died prior to the start of official registration in 1855 or moved out of Scotland.

To try and pinpoint a death for her, I tracked her son William from the first marriage. He married Margaret Brown in 1846 at Bothwell. He was an Ironstone miner and died in an accident, it seems, at Carnbroe Ironworks from a fall of stone. That was August 4th 1870. His parents are listed as John Crow (dec.) and Mary Crow m.s. Boyle (dec.).

hume

[hume]

 

But then again ... it helps if grandsons remember their granny's second marriage!

Mary Crow m.s. Boyle, d. March 17th 1864 at New Carnbroe, by Bothwell, aged 72. Listed as the widower of John Crow, pitheadman, her parents were John Boyle, baker (master) (dec.) and her mother's name was unknown. Registered by grandson David Crow.

Unfortunate there is no mother's name but it's a good start.

hume

[hume]

Just some other information:

1861:

Address: Brewster Ford Place, Holytown
David Crow, m, head, 46, coal miner, b. Ireland
David Crow, m, son, 14, coal miner, b. Bothwell
Elizabeth Crow, f, daughter, 16, house keeper, b. Bothwell
Samuel Crow, m, 12, coal miner, b. Bothwell
Mary Boyle, f, grandmother, 61, -, b. Ireland

Women often reverted to their maiden name after being widowed and I feel the census entry here has been filled out by one of the children of David snr., making David snr. the actual son of Mary. This would add another child to John Crow and Mary Boyle.

It would be worth following him and trying to find a death for David to confirm parents. He should also appear on the 1841 and 1851 census in Scotland, so you may gain more information there too.

Good luck,
hume

PS. And just to confirm really, 1861 census for Jean Crow (now Cavanagh) shows she was living at the same place.