William Laurie's death.

[StewL]

Hi all
I have been searching for William Laurie's DC for ages now with no luck.
Here are some details about William

William Laurie b abt 1822 in Dromore, County Down Ireland.
Parents Robert Laurie and Mary Irvine.

William married Sophia Whannell 26 April 1839
Sophia was born abt 1825? although this date is probably wrong. As both William and Sophia's births are guestimates, although their ages in censuses fits in around those dates.

On Sophia's poor relief application 1876 William is listed in same residence, when she dies in 1879 in Glasgow City Poorhouse/asylum, her daughter Maria McPherson said that she was married to William Laurie, which suggests he is still alive. Also on her poor relief application she states her son William was married and went to New Zealand around 1866. Recently I have been wondering if maybe William went to New Zealand also, but struggle to work out where he would have got the money from.

I have searched on SP for William's death with no luck, using a wide variety of dates, but as you can imagine there are one or two William Laurie's around.

Any suggestions most welcome.

[AndrewP]

Hi Stewart,

His death is there, as William LAWRIE, in 1889 in the City Poorhouse, St Rollox, Glasgow; widower of Sophia McWhannell. The age at death given implies a birth year of 1829-1830.

All the best,

AndrewP

[StewL]

Thanks Andrew
I don't know how I missed that one, perhaps I didn't use the soundex feature.
I will go on SP and get it straight away

[LesleyB]

Hi Stewie

I don't know how I missed that one, perhaps I didn't use the soundex feature.

Better to use wildcards - so for Lawrie/Laurie or even Lawrey use La*r* initially, and if you get too many matches, start adding a letter here and there e.g. La*rie.

Soundex is not hugely useful! e.g. Soundex Code for laurie = L600
Other surnames sharing this Soundex Code:
LAHR | LAIR | LAREW | LARR | LARUE | LAUER | LAURIE | LAWREY | LAWRIE | LAWRY | LEAR | LEARY | LEHR | LERAY | LEROY | LOEHR | LOHR | LORIO | LOWER | LOWERY | LOWREY | LOWRY | LOYER |
from http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ... xconverter
...so you would also get all those other surnames included that you are not interested in.

Best wishes
Lesley

[AndrewP]

Hi Stewie & Lesley,

I started with William La*r?*, born 1825 ± 10 years, died 1876 onwards. That gave 132 results - too many to consider looking at. So I took a gamble based on his wife's death and restricted the results to Glasgow City. That reduced it to 14 results. I assumed that Stewie would probably have looked at, and discounted the two Laurie results. Ignoring the names that were not spelling variants of Laurie, that left four William Lawrie results. There was one with a middle name, so I was leaving that as last to look at as Stewie had not mentioned a middle name. That left three, so I looked at the first one and it gave the answer that Stewie was looking for. No need to look at the others. So there was luck as well as judgement in the method.

All the best,

AndrewP

[StewL]

Hi Andrew & Lesley
I must have looked at the entry at some stage and discounted it as it had a middle initial. I don't have a middle name for Wullie. I got the image yesterday and great that it's the right one. Although the McWhannel has me a bit puzzled
I will have to find out which son Christina was married to, I have had a look and it is a bit difficult at the present to pinpoint, one or two could fit with their children's names, but I will have a look another time as I used up a few credits yesterday.

[JustJean]

Hi Stewie

How's thing's downunder? In reading this thread I'm a bit confused. Who is Christina? I'd love to have a look at the records for you if I can lend a free hand but at the moment have no idea what I'd be searching for!! Then again it might just be a getting more senior moment on my part......

Best wishes
Jean

[AndrewP]

Who is Christina?

Hi Jean,

Christina Lawrie, his daughter-in-law, was the one who informed the registrar about William Lawrie's death. (Not a senior moment, Stewie hadn't mentioned that detail above.)

All the best,

AndrewP

[StewL]

Hi Jean
maybe it was me having the senior moment, in all the excitement of finally getting Wullies DC I didn't mention that the informant was Christina Lawrie.
It is also noted the spelling difference in surname with this lot, or it could be the registrar, although it appears Christina could write.
I also found him in the 1881 Census living in St. Andrews Street as a boarder.

[Troupman]

Stew
I have been researching the surname Laurie / Lowry / Lawrie etc in and around Glasgow from 1800 onwards. My own line goes back to Thomas Laurie who married twice firstly to Elizabeth Reid and then to Agnes Ferguson. I have in the course of my research come across the family you are researching and have several bdm, census and poor relief that relate to that family. I am aware of the Christina who registered the death of William in 1889 and can advise how she is related. I would be happy to share what I have but don't want to spend a long time typing up what you may already have. Please can you let me know what you have and what are your current lines of research and I will see what I can offer. I have approx 4 lever arch files of info to plough through so an indication of what you need would be helpful

Robert