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Lost Struthers Ayr
« on: Wednesday 12 April 23 19:07 BST (UK) »
1901 census has Alexander William Struthers b Glasgow 1852 solicitor, wife Jessie Jane nιe McCall b 1858 Tobago
and 4 children, aged from 20 down to a baby.
The eldest was Annie 20, who married my great uncle. The others were Gertrude18, Robert W 16,John A who attended his sister's wedding in Vancouver and George.
Having nothing better to do this afternoon I thought I would see what happened to the family.
Found nothing, not in 1911 census, no deaths of parents or marriages of siblings. Seems very odd?

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 20:18 BST (UK) »
There is a death registration for a Alexander W Struthers in Battersea London in 1932, (born 1852).

The son John Alexander Struthers attested in WW1 for the Canadian forces.
According to Alexander’s WW1 attestation in Canada, made Jan 1916, his father (Alexander William Struthers) was living in John Street,  Hamilton Scotland.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 20:27 BST (UK) »
Jessie Jane McCall Struthers died in Ayr, 26 July 1909.

The son, Robert Wilson Struthers was a planter in Malacca. Looks as if he died in Surrey, 8 Aug 1932.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 20:31 BST (UK) »
The son George F K Struthers is in Devon in 1939 (married) working as a Merchants cashier.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)


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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 20:45 BST (UK) »
Birth of George

STRUTHERS
GEORGE KIRKMAN
MCCOLL
M
1901
578 / 1 / 119
AYR

His sister Gertrude Mary died in 1934 Chelsea and her probate record names her brother George Kirkham Finlay Struthers.

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 21:29 BST (UK) »
John Alexander Struthers was born 1890. Ne married Margaret J Berry in 1920. They had a son John D A Struthers in 1922.

Marriage of son

Marriages Dec 1941   
Lark    M Arguerite    Struthers    Sunderland    10a   1795    
Struthers    John D A    Lark            Sunderland    10a   1795

John snr died 7th January 1952 and his probate record mentions his son John D A Struthers

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 21:58 BST (UK) »
The daughter, Annie Maud Struthers in 1911 is in Croyden Surrey, working as a nurse.
She married Arthur John Porter in 1914 in British Colombia.
She died in Paignton Devon 12 May 1959
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Lost Struthers Ayr
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 12 April 23 22:15 BST (UK) »
Neale and John,
Thank you both so much for all your efforts. My great uncle first went to Victoria BC in 1911,then returned to sign up for the British army in WW1, but returned to Victoria immediately afterwards. I didn't know that Annie Maud had been a nurse, perhaps that is how they met. I never really knew them although they  came back to the UK frequently until retiring here in 1950's. Your info has put flesh on the bones of what I knew.