My great great grandfather Robert Watson

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by AndrewP » Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:06 pm

Hi goldenboy,

The Campbell Watson that I found in Glasgow was the son of James Watson (iron moulder) and Catherine Wilkieson. That couple were producing children in Falkirk from 1851 to 1865, and in Dundee from 1868 to 1872. As given above, one of their sons was named Campbell, and they produced two daughters named Elizabeth Campbell Watson (presumably the first one died young). There is a fair chance that they are related in some way to your Watsons.

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by goldenboy » Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:13 pm

Thank you Andrew for this information .I am relatively new to research have gone back the way now
slowly going outwards ..Robert has been the most difficult so far

I suspect this will be a connection hopefully find it as my research goes on


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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by goldenboy » Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:17 pm

I have been trawling through all my Watson information and on his son Robert's marriage to Mary Riddle in Edinburgh in 1890 Robert is registered as deceased.


This narrows it down a little bit

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by WilmaM » Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:02 pm

Side tracking:
I wonder where his wife Margaret was buried?
Does she have a headstone and is he included on it?

The Falkirk History Society's magazine Calatria has various cemeteries indexed with headstone inscriptions, I only have 1 or 2 but the local libraries all have copies

The British newspaper archives seem to have an entry for a Margret Watson Campbell in October of 1875 in the Falkirk Herald wonder if that's her funeral notice? I don't have a subscription to it so can't check further.
There doesn't seem to be an equivalent notice for a Robert Watson - but there's a lot of gobbledegook as it's obviously computer generated!
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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by Anne H » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:25 am

Wilma Wrote:
The British newspaper archives seem to have an entry for a Margret Watson Campbell in October of 1875 in the Falkirk Herald wonder if that's her funeral notice?
The only death I can see for October 1875 in the Falkirk Herald is for a 78-year old Margaret Wilson Campbell who died 26th October at Sunnyside in the house of her son-in-law. (Falkirk Herald 02 October 1875).

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by goldenboy » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:18 pm

Thank you both Margaret died in February 1875

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by WilmaM » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:06 pm

ah so it is - :oops:
it seemed to be either muddling Wilson/Watson or giving me both results , the Campbell bit threw me too.

Sorry.

Where were they living when she died GoldenBoy? that could give a clue to burial place, and were they Church of Scotland?
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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by Anne H » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:12 pm

Nothing showing for Margaret Watson Campbell for February or March 1875 either.

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by goldenboy » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:19 pm

Margaret Watson died in what looks like Custom Lane Falkirk another address they were at was Cow Wynd

Hope this helps/

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Re: My great great grandfather Robert Watson

Post by WilmaM » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:24 am

Cistern Lane most probably, long gone, but was behind the High Street, near to where the Wheatsheaf Inn still stands.
That would mean the Tattie Kirk off Cow Wynd or Silver Row graveyards.
Tattie Kirk still has gravestones, but Silver Row is now under Callender Square Shopping centre, they were all reinterred in Camelon but the stones are who knows where.

Notvsure whennill be able to check but I'll bear them in mind.

Edit: I checked the memento mori site, it covers much of falkirk now, but no sign of them in any of the listings.
Wilma

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