US Naturalisation

[emjaye]

I have a chap, born in 1857 in Elgin, and listed living there in the Censuses of 1861, '71 and '81. He emigrated to America in 1885, and his naturalisation/citizenship papers show that he renounced his allegiance to the President of France, rather than Queen Victoria.

Would anyone have any clue why this would be?

Thank you

[Erato]

Name?  Link to naturalization documents?

[emjaye]

Robert Cameron

FamilySearch :      Ohio, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1977 Scioto Declarations of intention...lizations 1879-1906 vol 1

[chempat]

I can see several Robert Camerons, which one please?

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01q36/


Added:
Sorry, my link to later naturalisations, only ones that I found.

[chempat]

This one, age over 21:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L996-Q8YZ?i=100&cc=1987615&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQPH4-DN3C

He has a middle name - is he yours?

[Forfarian]

Either Robert Cameron was having a laugh at the expense of the USAnian official, or the USAnian official had been celebrating too enthusiastically the night before. 

Could Robert Cameron have previously gone to France and become naturalised there, which seems a little unlikely? The simplest explanation is that the USAnian official got it wrong.

I think that middle initial is J, not G as indexed.

[chempat]

This death fits with him in censuses, wife Emma etc, and middle initial

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12211178/robert_j.-cameron

though photo of gravestone just shows surname.

[chempat]

This is from Canada seafarers records, no image on Ancestry, not yet looked elsewhere:

Robert Cameron  age 30 (in 1887)  born in Scotland, on the barque, Alice Cooper, which sailed from and to Dunkirk France from 18th November 1887 to 17th April 1888.  Vessel registered at Windsor, Nova Scotia.
He joined the ship on 19th December 1887 at Fowey as crew, and was discharged on 7th February 1888 - he deserted, at New York.

[emjaye]

Yes, thank you Chempat, that is he. I have all his family information, wife Emma Saufferer, children, life in Piqua, Ohio, obituary etc.

His Scottish birth record has no middle name, and yes, he appears to have given himself a middle initial, although it is a 'J', not a 'G', which is a transcription error.

However, he was a textile dyer in Scotland, and continued in this profession in America. He could not have been him on the ship since he married Emma on the 22nd of December 1887 in Scioto.