Help finding missing Robert Allan

[Cboyd13]

Thank you Monica

That’s the marriage I have also. My grandad mentioned a sister Joanne who died as a baby she must have been named after the grandmother so thinking loads of variations

[MonicaL]

Just thinking how you could research those years after the death of your great grandmother and what happened to your Grandad.

If Robert Snr was not able to cope with the children, they would have been taken care of either by family or alteratively put into a children's care home. Also, from what you have mentioned, your granddad was boarded out to a family in the Inverness area. This often happened at that time. Arrangements (paid for) were made either by the Parish Council or the local Council to take of children away from the City and to the countryside in the expectation of a better life.

You could try making checks at The Mitchell Libary archives in Glasgow. No idea how practical this may be for you. They hold one of the best collection of Poor Relief Applications (for the Glasgow area). If you are lucky to find one of these applications it can provide full details on what was happening at that time, what was done, and further case reviews.

Let me find you a couple of links for you to read through and I will add here.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Have a look here www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/ExploreRecords/Pages/Poor-Law.aspx

Monica

[Cboyd13]

Thank you

He was very young and only remembered the nurses showing him how to make his bed use a knife and fork and being taken to John street given a set of clothes and being sent away and his sister elsewhere, thought the same the dad may not have been able to cope and the story was told to make them accept being fostered better

[MonicaL]

Did your Grandad only have one living sister, Margaret? Did they keep in touch?

Did he put his father down as deceased when he married?

Did he serve in the WW2? Thinking here whether there may be service papers for you to follow up on.

Monica

[Cboyd13]

Only Margaret they visited each other not often though she is actually still alive but both memories are not great. Not sure if it is my mum will look it out she just said and I can see he thought he was dead but went through a lot of deaths on Scotland’s people and drawn a blank

[MonicaL]

Just noticed that your Grandad and Charlie, my amazing step-dad, shared the same years, 1924-2019.

There are so many deaths on SP for a Robert Allan with the birth year of 1901 +/- 3 years and many will fall within the 50 year mark so you will not be able to view them on line.

If you are in Scotland and close to one of the main Genealogy centres with online direct access to SP, you can view all the deaths you can, right up to more recent deaths. All for the cost of a daily ticket which gives you access to a chair, desk and screen... See www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/our-charges  There are other places, such as Glasgow, where you can do this apart from Edinburgh.

Monica

[Cboyd13]

Thank you

Here’s the great man himself

[Cboyd13]

He is decreased on his marriage cert in 1952 but may not be accurate