Marion Scott Nisbet

[MonicaL]

I found the shipping manifest for their return.

Mrs J McCallum 35
Martha McCallum 12
Willie McCallum 3

They arrived in Glasgow from New York on the 'Circassia' on 3 Feb 1895. Age for Martha looks wrong doesn't it.

So young Jane must have died in the US as a small child? James returned separately to them it seems.

Monica

[MonicaL]

They had an earlier child in 1884 before Marion went to USA called James.  He was with his grandmother in 1891 but I have been unable to find him since.

How was young James's birth registered. Couldn't see anything for him in West Calder in 1884. I can see him as you mentioned in 1891 in Hamilton Lanarkshire with the Nisbet family, but nothing after so far 

ADDED: On the transcript for 1901 that I am looking at, there is a James N McCallum who is showing as a servant (actual occupation transcribed bus conductor....?!) in the household of a James B Smith and his family living at Woodbine Villa, Blantyre Lanarkshire. His James's birth place is showing on the transcript as Linlithgow, buthgete (Bathgate likely).

Monica

[doolittle72]

Young James's birth was registered in Edinburgh 23rd June 1884.

He was registered as James McCallum Nisbet

The age for Martha does look wrong.  At that time she would have been about five.
Doolittle

[doolittle72]

I have found a 1901 census entry which I think could be James.

He is a boarder, Coal Miner, Living in Dunlop Street, Cambuslang with a family whose head is also a coal miner name Hyslop.

He is James Nisbet age 17 born 1884 single, in Lanarkshire.  Perhaps all he can remember is living in Hamilton with his grandmother, aunt and uncle, since he was only two when his mother left.

I have looked at all the James Nisbets in the census and he looks the likeliest.  I am not surprised he is working down the pits as all his forebears and later kin were coal miners.

Now I need to look for a marriage or migration or death for him.

Doolittle