In my searches, I found lots of travellers around Scotland, but the hardest ones to keep track of are the mariners/fishermen/trawlers in the lines that I'm researching. Some started in Brixham, Devon (in the "Southern part of Great Bitain"), then moved east and north to Co. Durham (presumably by sea), then eventually moved to either Stornoway ROC or Aberdeen.
(I also have tailors ... great travellers, but mine only travelled "locally" among the Western Isles. None have been spotted near Glasgow.)
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Postscript
I finally solved my mystery, or at least I think I have.
I found a Dorset marriage entry for Robert Stewart and Hannah Martin. This supported information I got from Robert's death certificate, and gave the additional information that he served with the 14th Light Dragoons.
It now seems that the story may have gone thus: Robert leaves Ceres and joins the British Army. On discharge and return to the UK he stays in the south of England, perhaps with an Army mate, then meets & marries a local girl. He has three children with her (2 sons and a daughter). The daughter marries and remains in England, while his wife Harriet later dies in England (there are no records of either female ever being in Scotland). Robert then returns to Ceres with his two sons. Although I lack concrete proof of all of this, it seems a "best fit" to the known facts.
I found a Dorset marriage entry for Robert Stewart and Hannah Martin. This supported information I got from Robert's death certificate, and gave the additional information that he served with the 14th Light Dragoons.
It now seems that the story may have gone thus: Robert leaves Ceres and joins the British Army. On discharge and return to the UK he stays in the south of England, perhaps with an Army mate, then meets & marries a local girl. He has three children with her (2 sons and a daughter). The daughter marries and remains in England, while his wife Harriet later dies in England (there are no records of either female ever being in Scotland). Robert then returns to Ceres with his two sons. Although I lack concrete proof of all of this, it seems a "best fit" to the known facts.
Looking for Stewart, Maxwell, Meldrum, Picken, Morris, Fisher, Higgie, Kininmonth, Cuthbert and Fowlis/Fowles/Foules mostly in the Fife area