1891 or 1901 Lookup Ayr > CHERRY LATTA

[AMBLY]

Hi
I am looking for a Margaret (Maggie) Cherry LATTA on the 1891 and/or 1901 Census for Ayr, Scotland. She was born 1867. In 1897 she was enrolled  on Maybole Poor List, age 38, a widow with 2 sons & 1 daughter, and still on List as at 1905.

CHERRY was very possibly her maiden name, and if so I believe she is on 1881 Census as Maggie CHERRY age 13 at Mill Street, Ayr with parents John CHERRY & Margaret SIMPSON; and on IGI as born 1867 with mother's name incorrectly input as Mary instead of Margaret.

Am trying to find the names of her 3 children. (And her late husband's name - children's names might hold a clue).

Any help appreciated
Thanks

[teresamct]

good evening. i wonder if you found the person you were looking for

i may know of this lady as i have a margaret cherry connected to my tree

i have recently got in touch with a Latta relative through the latta.org websites newsletter. our 3x great grandfathers were brothers and his family branch has the Cherry in it

Teresa

[CraigM63]

This is the only Cherry-Latta marriage registered in all of Scotland from 1855 onward on ScotlandsPeople, and the date and location would certainly seem to fit.

CHERRY   MAGGIE   LATTA   JAMES   1887   605/ 47   Maybole

Searching for Latta births registered in Ayrshire between 1887 and 1897 when Margaret was described as a widow produces 11 births, six of which are registered in the Maybole registration district where Margaret and James married. The Maybole births are:

LATTA       ROBERT      M   1888   605/ 104   Maybole
LATTA       JANET              F   1888   605/ 124   Maybole
LATTA       ANNIE              F   1889   605/ 226   Maybole
LATTA       MARY              F   1891   605/ 175   Maybole
LATTA       GEORGE      M   1894   605/  21    Maybole
LATTA       JAMES CALDWELL   M   1896   605/ 196   Maybole

Not all of these may be children of the marriage, in particular the two 1888 births do not have consecutive registration numbers so they are not twins, but there is only a difference of 20 in the number so they must have been registered relatively closely together. A quick look for infant Latta deaths in the same time period doesn't produce any deaths registered at all anywhere in Ayrshire.

Searching for later Latta deaths, with a mother's maiden surname of Cherry produces these three deaths, which would seem to fit with the births of Janet, Annie, and James Caldwell above.

LATTA   ANNIE                   85   CHERRY   1974   615/ 908   Glasgow, Martha St
LATTA   JAMES CALDWELL   78   CHERRY   1975   605/ 438   Glasgow, Martha St
LATTA   JANET                   92   CHERRY   1981   603/ 14   Glasgow, Martha St

[CraigM63]

This is James, Margaret and family in the 1891 Scotland census.

LATTA   JAMES           1891   M   28   605/ 1/ 17   Maybole   Ayr
LATTA   MARGARET   1891   F   24   605/ 1/ 17   Maybole   Ayr
LATTA   NETTIE           1891   F   2   605/ 1/ 17   Maybole   Ayr
LATTA   ANNIE           1891   F   1   605/ 1/ 17   Maybole   Ayr

This means that the Janet and Annie Latta births noted above are the children of James and Margaret. Robert born in 1888 is the son of a James and Sarah Latta, so not one of their's.

In the 1901 Scotland census on ScotlandsPeople the family name has been recorded as Latto, and the full family is Margaret and five children.

LATTO   MARGARET   1901   F   34   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr
LATTO   NETTIE           1901   F   12   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr
LATTO   ANNIE           1901   F   11   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr
LATTO   MARY           1901   F   9   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr
LATTO   GEORGE           1901   M   7   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr
LATTO   JAMES           1901   M   4   605/ 1/ 33   Maybole   Ayr

So the only Latta birth registered in Maybole between 1887 and 1897 that is not a child of James and Margaret is Robert, born in 1888.