Re: Glasgow / WILLIAM CROSS & Son., carver & gilder

[MonicaL]

However, thought you would like to see who was visiting your g grandmother, now Ann McTaggart, in 1901:

Neil Mactaggart    34 Baker b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire
Annie Mactaggart 35 b. Glasgow
Annetta Mactaggart 4 b. Saltcoats, Ayrshire
George Mactaggart 1 b. Kilninian, Argyllshire
Annie Cross 89 Wife's Grandmother, Living On Own Means b. Paisley Renfrewshire

Address: Tena Buildings, Tobermory

Monica

[MonicaL]

Got a long old day tomorrow...have to log off now. Just a few notes for now:

Andrew, Mary and Ruby looked to have headed off to the US in 1883. There is no US 1890 census to check. He was naturalized in 1892. This document makes it very clear it is him.

I have found who I think is Mary, a Matron by occupation, and Ruby, a spinster, returning to the UK in 1897.

I wonder if Andrew died there? More work needed into all of that for sure.

Monica

[Brownbaker]

Hi MonicaL

Thank you so much for your research!
You're so efficient and quick, wow!

To answer your first response - yes, i do have the marriage certificate of Andrew & Mary from 1862. It was my difficulty reading this certificate that raised the question for this thread. Was William Cross, gilder in Glasgow in fact Andrew's father? Looking at the cert it appeared he was, but i wasn't sure. So, thank you so much for clearing up this question for me.

About Andrew & possibly Mary working and living Macclesfield, thats surprising news! Firstly, i had no idea that our Scottish family had ever lived in England and secondly, why would Andrew, carver & gilder, working with his successful father leave to work in a restaurant?

I wonder what happened?

BB   


 

[Brownbaker]

Hi MonicaL

I just found your most recent posts about Tobermory and Andrew's immigration to the US...thanks! Wow, another wonderful piece of surprising information for my family

What's strange though, is that your 2 last posts weren't up an hour ago when i answered you. They weren't up till now....?

I'm going to go through everything you've so kindly searched out for me, and make a timeline to work on. That will keep me busy today!
 
BB

[capricorn]

I see Andrew was  naturalized in 1892 in Portland, Maine.
I wonder if this could be his death

Image is available on familysearch

Name   Andrew Cross
Event Type   Death
Event Date   25 Nov 1897
Event Place   Portland, , Maine, United States
Gender   Male
Age   56
Birth Year (Estimated)   1841
Father's Name   Unknown Unknown
Mother's Name   Unknown Unknown

[MonicaL]

BB, I think all that happened with posts is that you clicked on page 2 to reply, not seeing that there were two additional posts on page 3. It happens to us all!

Capricorn, that is a great find. Fits well with that shipping manifest I found with likely Mary and daughter Ruby returning to the UK in 1897.

Monica

[MonicaL]

That death entry in 1897 shows Andrew born in Scotland. He was a Saloon Keeper and died from acute alcoholism it is reported.

Burial details here www.findagrave.com/memorial/117393903

Monica

[Brownbaker]

@MonicaL
   
There is so much information to assimilate....can you help me understand, thanks!

Can the Andrew Cross with wife Mary & Ruby, who left for to the US in 1883 and became an innkeeper who naturalized in US in 1892, but later died an alcoholic in 1897...be the same Andrew Cross listed as a restaurant manager in Glasgow on his daughter, Ann Steel Cross' marriage certificate in 1893?

BB

[capricorn]

I also found this newspaper clipping.....it does seem to be the same Andrew.....but there's been no mention of him being a University graduate.
Hopefully this doesn't confuse things 

It's from the Lewiston Evening Journal
Nov 26th 1897