Hi Pastmagic, thank you! We did just that and were able to pull some information which is tantilizingly one step closer to finding our guy. We now know for sure IF we have the right Robert Robertson, it was the FATHER not the son who would have been the dad to our Robert Robertson! And he was dead in 1814, so that's why he doesn't show in the directories, darn it. SO CLOSE!!! BUT a brilliant archivist from Aberdeen has written us recently and filled in TONS of gaps so we're moving ahead finally...
Monica, have looked over the resources you sent, thank you!!! Still pursuing some of them. Hopefully we'll get that last missing piece of the jigsaw...
It turns out that it was not PARK lane, but rather PORK lane on which our randy lime merchant lived. Though he stood fast he was not the father of the child, he refused to sign a document to that effect...so the case was quite a battle for a number of years!
CammoS: the Singapore post was regarding a whole different family--the Burtons, sorry....it's awful trying to research Singapore during those years. There seems to be nothing at all out there!
