George Urquhart's Look up/help needed

[DavidSMaxwell]

I have a very precious booklet from 1898-1901 50% text/50% drawings and photos Robert (George ?) Urquhart. He was there with wife and baby [ photo recorded as "Jessie McDonald Urquhart Aged 11 months"..in 1901 ] Written like a blog with humour, it covers a journey from Limekilns to South Africa and accidentally working for the 'enemy' at the outbreak of the Boar War.

Would like to get in contact with descendants. Could also scan as a PDF file on Dropbox if there is an interest.

[rosie17]

Hi David and welcome to rootschat you might need to remove your e-mail address.. if you make another 2 posts you will be able to send a private message to Woolamai  and you can exchange information

Rosie 

[DavidSMaxwell]

Hi Rosie,

Thank you! FYI Intention is to pass this on to Historic Scotland. Possibility that it will be expand into a documentary so would be wonderful to have involvement from relatives.

[Rosinish]

There are a few Robertsons onboard the ship too. I don't know if that is co-incidence or whether they are related to the ones she was living with in Edinburgh. They are
Robertson   A   born1864   
Robertson   A   born1912   
Robertson   A R born1876   
Robertson   I   born 1914

Is there any indication of the sexes of the above?

I had a quick look in the Midlothian area & found...

ROBERTSON ALEXANDER ROLLO 1876 685/3 493 Canongate

It might be worth a search for him close to where Jessie Wilson Marshall & family were as there was 1 birth with that name/yr & no death matching unless his middle name/initial was dropped?

Annie