George Murray Culverhouse

[AlgarvePete]

Hi all, hit a brick wall with the parents of George Murray Culverhouse b. 5 July 1905 Kirkfieldbank, Lanarkshire. George emigrated to Canada age 15 in 1920 and I have that side of the family.
I believe his parents were George Culverhouse and Margaret Murray but have no factual proof. Any help greatly appreciated.

[GR2]

The only Culverhouse born in Lanarkshire from 1900 - 1910 is George Culverhouse, born Kirkfieldbank 1904. Sounds like that's him.

You can access his birth certificate via ScotlandsPeople.

[GR2]

There are three male Culverhouses in Scotland in the 1901 census old enough to have been the father.
Two are born in England, one in Lanarkshire.

Uriah Moses Culverhouse (born Hamilton) is in Kilmarnock and married with a family. However, his wife died in 1901 and he didn't remarry until 1907.

Eli Culverhouse is single, a hammerman, aged 34, boarding at 50 Cameron Street, Glasgow.

George Culverhouse is single, butler at the Scottish Conservative Club, 112 Princes Street, Edinburgh, aged 27.

G. M. Culverhouse's parents were not married. The mother may have been from Kirkfieldbank and was working as a domestic servant with/for/near any of these three suspects. The ScotlandsPeople index shows the child as Culverhouse and as Murray, so the mother's surname was Murray and the father must have either signed the register or his name was added later via the register of corrected entries.

[GR2]

In the 1911 census index on ScotlandsPeople, George Claverhouse, aged 6, is living in Kirkfieldbank. There is an Agnes Murray in the same household.

[ColC]

Birth registration as posted by GR2 on https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

CULVERHOUSE   GEORGE      M   1904   649/2 31   Kirkfieldbank

Possibly George 1911 you would need to see the original on SP above.
CLAVERHOUSE   GEORGE   1911   M   6   649/2 3/ 16   Kirkfieldbank   Lanark

No others with Georges surname or near to it, no Margaret Murray but two others below, there will be more. Including the one posted by GR2 whilst I was searching.

RUSSELL   GEORGE   1911   M   14   649/2 3/ 16   Kirkfieldbank   Lanark

STEVENSON   MARGARET CAMPBE   1911   F   0   649/2 3/ 16   Kirkfieldbank   Lanark

Colin

[AlgarvePete]

Thanks for all the speedy replies my personal opinion is that George the butler b.1874 and working in Princes Street is the culprit. I have all the other Scottish Culverhouses who originate from Charles Culverhouse 1834 North Bradley, Wilts. He married in 1858 Hamilton and started a large Scottish Culverhouse line.
George 1874 is not a member of that family.
Thanks again I will follow up on those suggestions, regards, Pete.

[MonicaL]

On George's Form 30a, completed when he arrived in Canada in March 1920, he gave the information below. Address for mother is Aldersyke Cottage in Kirkfieldbank. Can't see a ref to her surname (searching as *ll*n). Closest I can see is a Mrs Gillon in Kirkfieldbank?

George was going to his aunt and uncle. Passage paid by them.

[MonicaL]

I think aunt and uncle were a Jemima Murray and Archibald Wilson who married in Kirkfieldbank in 1905. The marriage reg on Scotlands People would let you confirm Jemima's parents' names.

Jemima joined her husband Archibald in Canada in 1919 www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HG8-PS7

The Wilson family (transcribed on a/try as Welson) are in Winnipeg for the 1921 census with nephew 'John' Culverhouse, aged 16 and born Scotland.

Monica

[MonicaL]

Marriage for George's mother?

MARGARET WATSON MURRAY and GEORGE NISBETT GULLEN
1917
648/ 7
Lanark

Parents' names on this marriage cert can be compared with those named on Jemima Murray's marriage reg.

Mrs George Gullen at Kirkfieldbank fits perfectly with the details given by son George on his 1920 arrival in Canada.

Monica