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From: "Pat Bowers" <>
Subject: Fw: [CADI] lost grandfather
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:10:53 -0800


I looked for Alexander Robertson sp E born about 1877 dying between 1937 and
1941. I did not find one that might match.

Sorry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Robertson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 8:13 AM
Subject: [CADI] lost grandfather


> Colleen you are a godsend; and so are the kind people who referred you
> to me.
> I sent in the word subscribe; please tell me anything esle I should do?
> My grandfather Alexander Roderic Robertson died after I was born
> (5/17/37). How soon after I don't know, but his widow Edna my
> stepgrandmother was living with us in 1941 when my sister was born. It
> is rumored that he died in a car accident reportedly driving back from
> wash state while working in Sacramento for Portland Cement?
> He was born--I think, around 1877 in New York the eldest of four
> children who came with his parents to Oakley, Ca. at the turn of the
> Century. He married my grandmother Maude Harkinson and produced two
> sons=Robert and Donald (my father). They then divorced; my grandmother
> married another man named Roberts and had another son named Lee. All
> three boys grew up under the name of Roberts. My father took his
> original fathers name--Robertson-- when he got married. His brother Bob
> remained a Roberts and became a Superior Court Judge in El Dorado
> county. Lee twelve years younger became City Manager of Napa. Great
> grand parents were Alexander Robertson and Martha Seyffort Robertson of
> Oakland and Robert Harkinson and Alice Brinckerhoff Harkinson of
> Antioch, Ca.
> I Know I've probably given you a lot you didn't need; and I can't vouch
> for accuracy, but again I want to thank you for whatever help you can
> offer.
> Yours Truly, Tom Robertson
>
> "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will
> be too late."
> Ralph
> Waldo Emerson
>
>
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