Family Search: Walter HILL and Margaret WATSON GROSSERT

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coldshuga
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Family Search: Walter HILL and Margaret WATSON GROSSERT

Post by coldshuga » Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:00 am

Family Tree information concerning the following two people (possible immigration of a family members to unknown locations)

Walter Hill
Birth abt 1867 in Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland

[Parents: John Hill
Birth 1844 in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death 1920 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland
AND Mary Anderson
Birth 1845 in Blackrigg, Linlithgow, Scotland
Death 1911 in Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland ]

Margaret Joyce Watson Grossert/Grossart
Birth abt 1872 in liberton, Gilmerton, Scotland

[Parents: Adam /Grossert/
birth: 1846 Liberton, Scotland
death:
Esther /Watson/
birth: 1847 Dalkeith/midlothian, Scotland
death: 13 August 1926 Colinton Edinburgh ]

interested in what happened to the following (possible) children:

Walter Hill
1890 (Aberdour, Fordell, Scotland) –
Esther H Hill
7 Oct 1891 (Bothwell, Lanark, Scotland) – 10 Nov 1957 (Launceston, Tasmania) - came to Australia 1929
Margaret Hill
1893 (Liberton, Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland) –
Mary Hill
1895 (Liberton, Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland) –
Annie Hill
1896 (Liberton, Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland) –
Agnes Hill
1898 (Liberton, Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland) –
James Hill
1901 (Liberton, Gilmerton, Midlothian, Scotland) –
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Re: Family Search: Walter HILL and Margaret WATSON GLOSSERT

Post by AndrewP » Mon Dec 29, 2014 10:50 am

Hi coldshuga,

Their birth certificates can be viewed on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk on a pay per view basis. Also there is the 1902 death certificate for Margaret Hill (ms Grossert). Be careful not to restrict yourself to a single spelling for Margaret's maiden surname. Her marriage to Walter has her as GROSSART, her death shows GROSSERT. When searching on ScotlandsPeople I used wildcards G*SS*T to cover for what I took as likely variants of that surname.

Walter's death certificate can also be found on ScotlandsPeople if you give or take a few years on his age. Although he died in the poorhouse, a usual residence address is given. I would take that to (probably) mean that he was in the hospital part of the poorhouse, as it was just before the establishment of the National Health Service, so no free health care (in standard hospitals) for all in that year. The death was registered by one of his daughters, so it looks like she never emigrated.

All the best,

AndrewP