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From: "Craig McDonald" <>
Subject: Re: [GLASGOW~] SCOTCH GIRLS FREINDLY SOCIETY; REID/ROSS/LAWSON
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:16:01 -0000
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It still exists:-
http://www.gfsplatform.org.uk/

(assuming the "Scotch" version is part of the same organisation)

----- Original Message -----
From: "peigi mulligan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: [GLASGOW~] SCOTCH GIRLS FREINDLY SOCIETY; REID/ROSS/LAWSON


>I have a printed certificate, on bark paper rather than traditional paper,
>from SCOTCH GIRLS FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Govan,of the marriage of my
>gr-grandparents:
> Mary Wilson Reid to George Campbell Ross,
> 4 June 1897.
> I also have their GRO marriage certificate:
> George Campbell Ross, (son of George Campbell Ross & Mary Wright),
> Mary Wilson Reid, (dau of Peter Reid & Susan Todd)
> married 4 June 1897 at 874 Govan Rd, Govan.
> Minister:
> A Scott Macpherson, Fairfield United Presbyterian Church
> Witnesses:
> John Sinclair, Maggie Reid (sister)
> Both Georges were shipwrights.
>
> Can anyone tell me more about the Society? Does it still exist?
>
> Elizabeth Reid (sister of Mary above), married John Lawson, abt 1892,
> United Presbyterian Church.
> Elizabeth & John had a daughter, Susan, b 1893, and a son Peter, b abt
> 1898.
> Peter married Agnes Cairn, b abt 1901, dau of John, lived on Harmony Row.
>
> Emigration to New York:
> George, Mary & dau Elizabeth (b 1902, my grandmother) Ross emigrated 1904.
> Susan Lawson emigrated 1910, to the Ross's.
> John & Elizabeth emigrated 1914 to the Ross's. At the time of their
> emigration, son Peter lived on McKechnie St.
> Peter Lawson stayed with Aunt Margaret McGarry on Howan St, he & Agnes
> emigrated by 1920. Peter died by 1930.
>
> The Ross' stayed in New York, Brooklyn, then to Long Island, NY, building
> a house with the Lawsons.
> The Lawsons moved, I think, back to Brooklyn, then some to Canada.
> I never knew the Lawsons (except for Susan) although other cousins my age
> did.
> I knew the Ross' until their deaths.
>
> Susan Lawson Blanco died 1976 in Toronto, moving there from LI about 1974.
> She had no children.
>
> Cheers,
> Peigi
>
>
>
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