Search for Adam Cruickshank

[Ellenmai]

Monica & Carol you two really have gone all out on this one, thanks so much for all the time you have spent researching. As you have said not long to go before SP is up & running so crossing fingers Adam & David can be found 

[MonicaL]

SP is back up and running...and Adam's birth I think is showing as we expected. It shows in 1886 so must have been registered early January 1886.

Adam Cruickshank, Aberdeen/ St Nicholas, 1886, ref 168/1 1867

Ellenmai, fingers crossed it helps to bring some clarity in the search!

Monica

[MonicaL]

So happens there is a marriage between a David Smith and a Jessie Cruickshank:

1881 - ref 147/ 21 - Banff

Worth checking to see what are this Jessie's roots...trying to link together the Cruickshank name for Adam to maybe this Jessie's family?

There are few other marriages where the bride Jessie has a different surname. Guess just assuming this is the correct marriage in 1881 from what we have.

Monica

[ruthhelen]

There's actually another David Smith and Jessie Cruickshank marriage in 1878, St Nicholas - which strikes me as a potentially better match, given the subsequent locations we have for the couple:

1878 St Nicholas - 168/1 432

Ruth

[ruthhelen]

I think this may be Jessie in 1861 in Kintore:

Address: Denhead

George Cruickshank, head, 71, b. Fyvie
Elspet Cruickshank, wife, 70, b. Fyvie
Adam Cruickshank, son, 36 b Chapel of Garioch
Sarah Cruickshank, daughter, 45, b. Chapel of Garioch
John Raeburn, grandson, 13 b. Kintore
Alexander Burness, grandson, 6, b. Old Meldrum
Janet Cruickshank, visitor, 10 b. Inverurie

This is the family of George Cruickshank and Elspet Taylor, who had at least 10 children. Coincidentally, the unmarried son in the household is Adam Cruickshank - and I do love a coincidence 

It’s not clear from the transcript what the relationship this Janet Cruickshank has with the family - she’s identified as a visitor rather than a grand child, like the other two children in the house - but there is a Jessie Cruickshank baptised in Inverurie in 1853 (along with a twin, Christian, who died four years later). This Jessie is the daughter of Alexander Cruickshank and Ann Thomson - and Alexander is one of the above George Cruickshank's sons...

Ruth

[MonicaL]

Much better fit for the marriage, Ruth 

Monica

[MonicaL]

Spent so long on this now and waiting for SP...Ellenmai...I had to check myself 

So, Adam's mother is a Mary Cruickshank, adomestic servant, who gave her address as 6 Gerard Street, Aberdeen. Adam's birth was illegitimate. Mary pursued father and there is a court order naming a George Cruickshank (another  ) as father of Adam. George was a baker and living at 32 Charles Street, Aberdeen.

Monica

Added: Gerard Street as showing on the birth reg and RCE needs to be searched as GERRARD Street.

[MonicaL]

Staying on George the baker, from 1881:

George Cruickshank, 20, baker, b. McDuff Banff. Boarding at 107 John Street Aberdeen.

There are so many Jessie's cropping up here! This is a possible entry for George the baker in 1891:

George Cruickshank 30 baker b. Marnoch
Jessie Cruickshank 31
George Cruickshank 9
Isabella Cruickshank 7
Ann Cruickshank 5
Jane Cruickshank 2

Address: 79 Upper Denburn, St Marchar Aberdeen

So, he would have been married when he got together with Mary Cruickshank and then Adam's birth.

Possible marriage for a George Cruickshanks and a Jessie Watson Edwards in 1882 in St Nicholas Aberdeen.

Monica

Added: Possible birth for this George from Family Search www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYYC-QWT

[MonicaL]

From a connected family tree, this is a clip from George's death: