Annie Kerr

[i-z-z-y]

Thank you - I will have a look there.

Unfortunately I don't know her grandmothers name.

The only information I have was from my great aunt (Annie Kerr's daughter) and it is half remembered stories. My great aunt was a child when her mother died and the only left at home. She was sent to Australia to live with her older sister when her mother died and her father remarried. So she didn't really know much and had never met any of Annie Kerr's family members and they were not spoken about. She say she thought her mum may have had a brother called Robert who had an accident with an umbrella as a child and took a blow to the head and may have been institutionalised - but again I can find no evidence of this either!

[rosie17]

Do you have the death certificate for the mother Sarah who died in 1905 ? not seeing anything so far for a death on Scotlands People ..What census records do you have for Annie with her grandmother

Rosie

Izzy do you have the death for Sarah ?

[i-z-z-y]

No I haven't found it yet. The death date I have is from dna match but he also put Mary Jane Kerr as the same death date. I have found hers and it is correct. Haven't found Sarah Gallaghers yet though.

[rosie17]

Just noticed the same dates on your tree for both.. on the death for Mary is the details the same for the parents and who registered the death

Rosie

[i-z-z-y]

I have tried to transcribe the record but can't read some of it!

Deaths in the District of St Rollox in the county of Lanark
Name and single/married/widowed - Mary-Jane Traynor. Widow of Peter Traynor, Musician
F 30 years
When and where died - 1905 April Seventeenth ***** 62 Parliamentary Road, Glasgow
Parents - James Kerr, Tailor (deceased) Sarah Gallacher previously Kerr, ***** Kerr (deceased)
Cause of death - Phthisis Pulmonalis
Informant - Sarah Traynor, Daughter (present)

***** is just illegible!

[eileenwilson]

Could be "M.S." which means maiden surname.

[eileenwilson]

There are two Sarah Gallaghers who died in 1903, aged 47 and 61 respectively, one in Maryhill and one in Falkirk.  One of them is likely your Sarah since she is declared deceased at the time of Mary Jane's death, but is alive in the 1901 Census.

[i-z-z-y]

There are two Sarah Gallaghers who died in 1903, aged 47 and 61 respectively, one in Maryhill and one in Falkirk. 

Thanks Eileen - Did you find this on Scotland's People?

[eileenwilson]

Yes, but I don't have any credits to view, so you should see if either of them are yours.