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

[Brownbaker]

@Capricorn

The newspaper article & information you discovered, written the day after Andrew Cross' death in Portland, Maine is an amazing find.

Thank you
BB

[MonicaL]

That newspaper clip is a good addition, Capricorn. Mention of wife and daughter leaving shortly after his death certainly is further confirmation of events at the time.

I have forgotten now which son Andrew and Mary is being referenced in this article. I guessed that William b. 1868 may have died that year in Scotland from what shows on the index on SP. ADDED: Son likely Andrew born in England c. 1873-4. This Andrew is in the household headed up by Ann Cross Snr that we had from 1881.

Doesn't surprise me that there is only one daughter referenced in the article. Ann Steel Cross seems to have been raised very much by Annie Wilson back in Scotland. Agnes Wilson Cross may also have died young as she didn't show with parents Andrew and Mary in their 1871 census entry. With Ruby over in Portland with her parents, likely they may only have know of one daughter for Andrew and Mary.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Just as a side note, Mary Cross and daughter Ruby left the US on the 'Cataloniavia' from Boston and arrived in Liverpool on 26 October 1897, nearly a month before Andrew Cross died back in Portland...

Mary aged 60 and a Matron and Ruby showing as a spinster, aged 35. Both showing as Scottish on the manifest.

Ruby Cross, may well be back in the US, in Manhattan, New York by the 1900 census, working as a trained nurse (fits with mother showing as a Matron on that 1897 manifest?). She shows as Scottish, single, aged 36 and born in April 1864 (her actual birth was April 1863) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSKF-2XH

This may be Ruby's death in NY in 1903 www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WDJ-374  Most of the info is correct/thereabouts, although possible error on her father's name?

Monica