Help with Alexander Smith

[LMChapman]

Trying to find out more about an ancestor named Alexander Smith. He was born in Archiestown, Knockando, Moray on January 28th 1867, to parents Peter Smith (Farm Servant) and Margaret MS Morrison. He was one of nine siblings.

I can find him on the 1871 census, with his mother and some siblings in Knockando, and again on the 1881 census, with both his parents and one sister (still in Knockando).

In 1891, he is living on Taylor Street, in the Barony/St Rollox area of Glasgow, in the house of his sister Annie and her husband John. At this point Alexander is a Grocer's Assistant.

I believe he then married Elizabeth Allison McGregor on January 1st 1895, in Blythswood, Glasgow. He is a Grocer on the marriage certificate. He seems to be on the 1895 Valuation Roll for 18 Broompark Drive.

Elizabeth died on December 31st 1896 and after this I lose track of Alexander. I have an unreliable family history report done by someone else some years ago that suggests he may have gone on to be a missionary in Malawi(?!) and that he also married again and had 4 children.

Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.

[Forfarian]

It might help to know that the country now known as Malawi was known as Nyasaland until 1964.

[rosie17]

You might want to check this out on libindx.moraygov.uk

Alexander Smith death 1954 Blantyre Malawi age 87years
Occupation grocer & missionary & tobacco planter
Birth Archiestown Knockando
Marriage 1904
Spouse Mary Adams

There is a marriage for a Alexander Smith to a Mary Love Adams
1904 St Rollox Glasgow on Scotlands People be worth chaecking

Rosie

[rosie17]

Uk Foreign Overseas Registers of British Subjects

Mary Love Smith
Birth 14 December 1914
Chitreko Blantyre East Africa
Father Alexander Smith (occupation Scotch Missionary )
Mother Mary Love Adam

Rosie

[rosie17]

3 other daughters born to Alexander and Mary Love Smith

Margaret Morrison Smith born 31 December 1906
Blantrye Mission Hospital

Catherine Wilson Smith 4 August 1905
Gowa Mission

Kathie Adams Smith 12 April 1909
Gowa Mission

Rosie

[LMChapman]

Thank you so much! Somehow I had managed to forget about LIBINDX 
Are the Overseas Registers on Ancestry/Find My Past?

[rosie17]

Death for Catherine Wilson Smith 7 November 1905 aged 3months
Mission House Gowa

There are a few passenger lists for daughter's  Mary Love Smith and Margaret Morrison Smith

The Overseas registers are on Ancestry

Rosie

[MonicaL]

Miss Kathie Adams SMITH, Assistant Public Relations Officer, Nyasaland was awarded an MBE in the 1952 Birthday Honours.

www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39555/supplement/3032/data.pdf

Monica