The vanishing Hamilton Family

[Forfarian]

Forfarian - you missed out Rodger on the listing of children at the start of this thread!

So I did.
Rodger Hamilton, born 7 March 1854, Johnstone.

I think that death at Girvan must be her but she was 60 (Catherine Cleland Hamilton would have been 67 or 68) and the dc gives her mother's surname as Katherine, not Elizabeth. Her husband was John Dalgleish Paterson but I have not found a marriage. He died in 1915 in Girvan. Her father is described as a draughtsman, but in the censuses in 1851 to 1871 the one I'm looking at was described as a master engineer, marine engineer, and engine works master.

However the 1911 census is more enlightening. In particular it lists her as 59, which is almost right (she was 62) and born in Ireland. Their daughter Erm.... was 24, born Edinburgh, which led me to the birth of Erminie Katherine Paterson which led me to the marriage of John Paterson and K C Hamilton, with the correct parents, in Glasgow in 1877.

They don't make it easy, do they?

[rosie17]

Found this record for a Rodger Hamilton on the freemasons registers
Roger Hamilton date of initiation 19 March 1890
Residence Yokohama Japan
Birth year 1854
Occupation engineer

Find a grave
Roger Hamilton
Death 19 January 1913
Age 59
Chief engineer
Native of Johnston Scotland

Rosie

[Forfarian]

Now that's a source I've never come across before. Thank you, Rosie.

[rosie17]

That just leaves Adam and Godfrey now not seeing much records for them 

Rosie

[Forfarian]

I've found Adam in 1871. He and his sister Bessie (Elizabeth) were visiting their great-aunt Elizabeth Reid or Provan in Dunoon. But I still can't find him or Godfrey after 1871.

Really grateful for your help. I've been looking at it for so long that I think my brain was beginning to get addled.

Where do you access freemasons' registers BTW?

[DonM]

HAMILTON ADAM 92 1943 432/ 13 Inverkeithing...age fits

[Forfarian]

HAMILTON ADAM 92 1943 432/ 13 Inverkeithing...age fits

It does.

But this one was born in Inverkeithing and is there in 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901. Probably also in 1911 but there's no available transcription of the 1911 census.

[rosie17]

Where do you access freemasons' registers BTW?

On you favourite site Ancestry then I looked for a death for him in Japan on familysearch and found the record on findagrave ..Yes I did see the census record 1871

Rosie

[Forfarian]

Well, that's a first. Information relevant to my family on Ancestry, 35 years after I started looking. Wonders will never cease