William Robb d 1909 HLI
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bagpipinglady
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William Robb d 1909 HLI
I have been researching William Robb b Aberdeen 1863, a year later went with his parents William Robb and Ann Bremner to Burma (Myanmar) where they had at least one nmore child but then Ann died around 1867-9, and the father returned to Aberdeen where in 1870, he married his first wife's niece, also Ann Bremner. Young William joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Dublin in 1876 aged 13. He married a Rosina Dryburgh in Glasgow in 1885, and was discharged from the Army in 1897 according to his Army Record which I located. On the 1901 Census he is living in Glasgow. We believe he died in 1909 and that he had spent time in the Highland Light Infantry in his last decade, but I can find no record of this, nor his death in Scotland or elsewhere. He must have died somewhere!!! He is the composer of the well known Scottish pipe tune The Battle's O'er, which is why I'm researching him. He was a piper in the A and SH. Any help locating his death would be wonderful.
Heron and Murray in Galloway, Smith and Mill in Aberdeen and Galloway, Templeton and Elliot in Lanarkshire and Dumfriesshire, Watson and Douglas in Dumfriesshire, Scott and Maxwell in Kirkcudbrightshire.
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Montrose Budie
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Re: William Robb d 1909 HLI
Hi bagpipinglady
Welcome to TS.
The problem derives from his son, the informant, reporting a badly wrong age on the 1909 death register entry for William.
The secret here was to look for the death of Rosina, as it's possible on ScotlandsPeople to look for a married female death using both surnames. 'Rose Ann' [sic] died in 1928, shown as a widow. The parents' details are quite different from the 1885 marriage, but that this is the correct Rosina is shown by the age being correct, and informant being a married daughter, Williamina, and that marriage record showing the correct parents. William is shown as deceased on Williamina's 1919 marriage record.
So that that gives a time interval of 1901 to 1919 to be searched, and his death turns up not far away in Kelvin registration district; just to complicate matters, in hospital.
Send me a PM with your email address and I'll give you more details.
mb
Welcome to TS.
The problem derives from his son, the informant, reporting a badly wrong age on the 1909 death register entry for William.
The secret here was to look for the death of Rosina, as it's possible on ScotlandsPeople to look for a married female death using both surnames. 'Rose Ann' [sic] died in 1928, shown as a widow. The parents' details are quite different from the 1885 marriage, but that this is the correct Rosina is shown by the age being correct, and informant being a married daughter, Williamina, and that marriage record showing the correct parents. William is shown as deceased on Williamina's 1919 marriage record.
So that that gives a time interval of 1901 to 1919 to be searched, and his death turns up not far away in Kelvin registration district; just to complicate matters, in hospital.
Send me a PM with your email address and I'll give you more details.
mb
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bagpipinglady
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Re: William Robb d 1909 HLI
Many thanks indeed. I am all sorted.
Heron and Murray in Galloway, Smith and Mill in Aberdeen and Galloway, Templeton and Elliot in Lanarkshire and Dumfriesshire, Watson and Douglas in Dumfriesshire, Scott and Maxwell in Kirkcudbrightshire.
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Montrose Budie
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Re: William Robb d 1909 HLI
I've emailed GROS requesting that this register entry and index entry be amended, - this will involve an RCE entry.bagpipinglady wrote:Many thanks indeed. I am all sorted.
Orraverybest
mb