Hi, I've just been advised that the ancester of 'Honolulu Bob' is visiting the 'Selkirk Common Riding'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Riding in Selkirk, Scotland, this coming Friday 14th and I understand he may be my husband's relative (Robert Mailer Anderson?)
http://www.selkirkweekendadvertiser.co.uk/lifestyle/entertainment/robert-is-colonials-choice-1-2850609My daughter has found a few news items where he discusses his heritage, and I can certainly find a number of ship passenger manifests showing an ancester, Robert (b 1876) between 1907 - 1935 (and sometimes a wife called Margaret from Gattonside in the Scottish Borders).
My question is that Robert b1876 appears to have had a least one child RC Anderson, as on 23 Sept 1925 when he and Margaret are travelling from Vancouver BC to Honolulu on the RMMS Aorangi they list their son (RC Anderson) as residing at 2625 Avenue St, Honolulu.
A quote from one of the newspaper articles
"Honolulu Bob was Robert Anderson, who emigrated to Hawaii in 1898.
An accountant employed by the Honolulu Iron Works, he returned to Selkirk in 1937 with his wife, Margaret, and was Colonial Society chairman from 1940-46.
He and his wife eventually moved to California and Margaret died in 1949, with Honolulu Bob passing away three years later."This is my first real foray into US records and I would very much appreciate any assistance you can give.
Thanks in anticipation, Kit (Edinburgh, Scotland)
