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From: "Jenny Gibson" <>
Subject: Re: McGRUTHER Family
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:19:21 +1000
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Thanks, Janette. I was hoping he wouldn't be too far away. So one gap
filled in.

Jenny Gibson,
Toowoomba, Australia.


----- Original Message -----
From: "janette robertson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, 28 November 2003 8:27
Subject: Re: McGRUTHER Family


> Hi Jenny ,
> Alexanders surname has been mistranscribed in 1881 census.
> Details below.
> Janette
>
> Dwelling: 27 Lumsden St
> Census Place: Barony, Lanark, Scotland
> Source: FHL Film 0203667 GRO Ref Volume 644-10 EnumDist 76
> Page 12
> Marr Age Sex Birthplace
> Alex. MC TRUTHER M 33 M Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland
> Rel: Head
> Occ: Engineers Patternmaker
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jenny Gibson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 4:25 PM
> Subject: McGRUTHER Family
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Alexander McGRUTHER, son of Robert McGRUTHER and Elizabeth CAMERON, was
> born c. 1849 in Greenock, Renfrewshire. His mother was deceased when he
> married Janet GIBSON, daughter of Samuel GIBSON and Margaret SKENE, at
> Rhonehouse, Kelton parish, KKD, on 16 July 1875. Alexander was then a
> widower. His occupation was given as engineer.
> >
> > Following the wedding Alexander and Janet moved to Baroney parish,
> Glasgow. Their first child, Margaret Skene McGRUTHER, was born at 20
> University Street, Glasgow in 1876; their second child, Elizabeth Cameron
> McGRUTHER, was born at 5 University Street, Glasgow, in 1877; their third
> child, Robert, was born at 27 Lumsden Street, Glasgow, in 1879. On the
1881
> Census Janet was visiting her now widowed father with the these three
> children.
> >
> > I have not yet been able to locate Alexander on the 1881 Census. At the
> time of the birth of the above three children he was an engine/engineer's
> patternmaker (journeyman). I have checked the English 1881 Census on the
> LDS site, but can't find him there either. Can anyone suggest where else
I
> might look to find him.
> >
> > On the 1891 Census Alexander, Janet and now six children (Mary C.,
Thyrza,
> and Alexander) were living at 26 Arthur Street, Baroney parish, Glasgow.
> Alexander was then a steam engine patternmaker, employed by another.
> >
> > Given the large amount of engineering work going on in Glasgow at the
> time, is there any possibility of finding out who Alexander may have
worked
> for?
> >
> > The family has not been found on either then Scottish or English 1901
> Census Record. What might be some ways of finding out where the family
> might have moved to?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance for any assistance anyone is able to give me on
the
> above questions for this family.
> >
> > Jenny Gibson,
> > Toowoomba, Australia.
> >
> >
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