I can’t find the Parents of my great-grandfather.....

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:47 am

Well that's good to hear..

..well maybe not for you.

....but your absence of late has been noticeable

Hope you manage to keep that borrowed line open

Best wishes
Jean

dockerty · Post by **dockerty** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:13 pm

Hi there Jack & Jean
thanks for this info. I have been persuing your last booty Jean but obviously not as efficiently as either of you.

I found Noble in the index age 11 in Hamilton but ran out of credits so left it there till next visit. So thanks Jack;

Jack, your comment about a second marriage, has given me something to think about re my second brickwall but I will run with that later after I've finished running with this one. Were divorce or seperations common in Scotland in the 1830- 1840s?. thats where my other brickwall is.

very gratefull to you both
GORDON

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:12 pm

Hi Gordon

In order to save you guessing for locating them in 1841....I mean there are only 3 James Thomsons in Bothwell all the same age

.....I've looked into the crystal ball and believe you should choose the one that matches this GROS number....625/00 009/00 011.

I'm thinking that this was not a second marriage unless James managed to find two Mary Robertson's! Mary is his wife in 1841 throughout and because she is named as mother of James in 1852 and John in 1841 that puts her on either side of the gap. Perhaps they had a child or two that did not survive. We know that they went on to have James and Andrew after Margaret!

As for Noble that lead doesn't look very promising at the moment. If he is related it will likely be distantly. If the enumerations are accurate you'll note that Noble's entire family was born in Ireland....and if his father Thomas and John's father James were brothers James would have to have been born in Ireland or Thomas would have to have returned to Ireland to marry and have his family. Certainly a very difficult if not impossible connection to unravel. You're best clue right now is James stating his birthplace as Stonehouse.....and knowing that the marriage banns were read in both Neilston and Barony. But then again you may be back as far as you can go..............

Divorce or separations were not overly common but difficult to prove. I don't think there were many formal divorce proceedings from that era....more likely that two people just stopped being a couple and went their own ways. We've seen our share of Widowed women who weren't....we've also uncovered a bigamist or two.

.....so there is really no end to the possibilities! Folks haven't changed much.............

Best wishes
Jean