June 12th

Yesterday we noted the death of Mary Banton.  Today we have the birth of her grandson.

William Glover was born on this day in 1840 in Castle Donington.  He is your great great grandfather and you will be visiting his church in Horsley next week!

Mary (of yesterday) and Robert had six children.  The second one was John who had a grocer's shop on Borough Street in Castle Donington with his wife Elizabeth Shaw.  John and Elizabeth's youngest son is William who was born today.

William was a draper until he was educated to become a congregational minister.  He trained at the Bristol Theological Institute.  Around that time he married Celia Adams and they had two children but Celia died during the birth of their second baby - and then the baby, Frank William Adams Glover, died a couple of months later.

William had two churches in the county of Gloucestershire - at Fairford and Blakeney.  Then he was called to Northumberland and became the minister of the Congregational Church in Horsley in 1877.  He was a single dad - his daughter being 3 years old at the time of the move - then the following year he married the neice of the presbyterian minister in nearby Stamfordham.  This was Flora Fisken who originally came from Perthshire Scotland.  Her Presbyterian minister uncle was William Fisken of the plough.

William and Flora had two children - William Fisken Glover and Archibald Ritchie Lawrence Glover.  Their son William is your great grandfather.

The family lived in the manse which was attached to the church.  It's a very old building - from the 1700s - and still stands today - in fact, you'll be having breakfast there next Wednesday!  The church is not the original.  It was actually William who spearheaded the building of a new church to better serve the communty.  The new church was built without debt in 1901/02.  Sadly William didn't live long after to enjoy the fruits of his endeavours.

William was a well-respected minister and member of the community.  He was active beyond the church by being elected parish councillor.

From The Venerable House (The Story of a Country Church)  by H. Rex Coombs

William Glover was a man who believed in progress and much structural attention was effected in his day: changes which reflect that he was a man of vision, for the full scope of his sweeping changes is still proving of increasing value to the life and witness of the church.

June 4th

June 4th marks the anniversary of the deaths of two grandmothers - 127 years apart.

Back in 1876 Elizabeth Shaw died at 18 Red Lion Street in Wandsworth (part of London).  Since 1909 Red Lion street has been called Barchard Street.

Elizabeth Shaw is your 3X great grandmother.  She was born in 1801 in Chesterfield in Derbyshire which is in the east midlands part of England.  Her mum and dad were George Shaw and Mary.  I haven't been able to find out anything about them.  Elizabeth was baptized on March 22nd 1801 at Sutton Cum Duckmanton St Mary (neat name huh?)

At age 26 she married John Glover of Castle Donington and they ran a grocer's shop on Borough Street in Castle Donington.  They had six children but only three of them lived beyond babyhood.  Their first two children, Alfred and Mary, died before age 2 and were gone before their 3rd child Sarah Ann was born.  Their fourth child died in infancy and the their sons Shaw and William were born in 1839 and 1840 respectively.  The youngest, William, is your 2X great grandfather and you'll see his church in Northumberland in a couple of weeks!

Elizabeth became a widow when John died in 1850.  She continued running the shop for a while - but then sometime before 1861 she moved with her three children to 59 Rassbottom Street in Staylybridge in Ashton under Lyne which is in the county of Lancashire (north west England).   Try as I might, I cannot figure out why she would move there.  My best guess is something to do with the cotton or linen industry.  Both sons were drapers at that point.

Her son Shaw Glover seems to have begun the trend to move north up into the North East of England by marrying a woman from there.  Elizabeth and her daughter Sarah Ann began living in Newcastle sometime before 1871.  

Before her son William (your great great grandfather) moved up north, Elizabeth had moved away from Newcastle to where her daughter Sarah Ann had moved:  to Wandsworth in London.   And it was there that she died.  William was able to be there with her.  She died of apoplexy (a stroke).  She was 73 years old.

And then on June 4th 2003 grandma died here in Winnipeg.  She was born Violet Winifred Christie in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1919.  She was the sixth child for Betsy West and John Christie - both Scots.   She was very much the baby of the family - her closest sibling was her brother Leslie who was nearly 9 years older than her.  Her other siblings were Jack and Catherine.  Two other children -  Isabella and Helen - died in childhood.

Grandma's father was the foreman at the Newcastle Breweries Maltings and the family lived above there at 7 Tower Street.  Grandma lived there until the time of her second marriage (to my dad) in 1946.  She began school at age 5 going to the Royal Jubilee School across the road from her home and then at age 10 she attended Osborne Grammar School and at age 15 she attended Skerry's College to learn shorthand and typing.  Over the years these skills held her in good stead for a number of jobs including being a legal secretary.  She was a conscientious and organized worker and was appreciated by her employers.

Grandma turned 20 shortly after the start of World War II.  And at that time she had already been dating Donald Dick for more than two years.  Donald joined the army and was one of the soldiers evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 (you and I saw the movie).  It was after this that he and grandma married but I think that his war experiences must have changed him - or what other explanation could there be for him to not want to be married or to know his daughter who was born two years later.

Grandma never moved out of her parents' home until she met my dad and they married in 1946.  They met through the St. James Congregational Church in Newcastle - on an outing to the "Hoppings" - an annual event rather like the Red River Ex.  Post war Britain was in a bit of a mess which included very little housing stock so Grandma and Grandda didn't get decent housing for quite a while during which time they had rooms and Alison remained with her grandparents. They moved into 56 Bell Terrace in 1950.

And it was while at 56 Bell Terrace that I was born.  But before I came along grandma had lost three babies.  One a full-term boy they named Ian.  He was still-born.  And then twins who she lost mid-term.

As of 1954 the family started the round-country treks.  We left Newcastle for Diss in Norfolk in the spring of that year and until we settled at 21 Duchess Street in Whitley Bay 4 or so years later, we lived at 12 addresses which included caravans in four locations in England and Scotland.  My mother rarely bothered unpacking the trunk!

All the moving around was due to my father's inability to keep a job.  It must have driven my mum mad!

Things were fairly settled for grandma once we were in Whitley Bay.  She worked as a legal secretary at Briggs & Co.   She was involved with the church (Park Avenue Congregational) and volunteered with the Red Cross.  But during this time dad was ill a lot and was often unable to work.  Mum kept things together.

I believe she was mostly pleased about our move to Blyth in 1967 as it meant she had a brand new semi-detached council house with central heating and a garden.  But Dad's health declined within the first few months and he died within a year of the move after which she was keen to leave Blyth and get back to Whitley Bay - which she and I did - she swapped our council house for a council flat in Monkseaton.

After my dad's death, grandma came into her own.  She got a good job with the University of Newcastle - secretary in the burser's office.  She got into all sorts of new activities and generally enjoyed herself.  She even tried horse riding!!  But after having a holiday with Alison and Bruce and the kids in 1969 she declared that she'd like to live in Canada.  So that project was put into motion and she (and I) sailed from England in May 1972.

Settling into a new country in her 50's - and in those days things were quite different - probably wasn't all that easy - but in true grandma-style she got involved and kept busy.  She worked as a legal secretary for Pitblado & Hoskins and then got a provincial government job at Land Titles which she loved.  But she was lonely and so sought out a new relationship which resulted in her meeting Alex. Smith who she married in 1977 and shortly thereafter moved to the West Coast.

The West Coast was a good place for her to be - and she was there for 20 years only returning after Alex's death in 1999.  She enjoyed the natural amenities of Vancouver and environs.  She was the inveterate volunteer and kept busy and engaged.  She enjoyed travelling - cruises and trips down to Reno - as well as  shorter trips in B.C. and Canada.

Once she hit her late 70's she announced that she was the longest living Christie in her family.  She made it to 83.  She died in Winnipeg on this day in 2003.

At Whitley Bay 1958

May 18th

William Fisken 1837 - 1917

On this day your great great grandfather, William Fisken, died.

This is not the William Fisken of steam-plough fame but of course they are related.  Plough William is GGgrandfather William's uncle.

The other interesting relationship is that GGgrandfather William is the brother of Flora Fisken who happens to be your great great grandmother.  His daughter married her son.  This means you are short a couple of great great grandparents!

Anyway, to William Fisken of the day.

All our Fiskens started off in Perthshire, Scotland and then some ended up some 50 odd miles east of there in Dunbartonshire and then some, like William, ended up in Newcastle upon Tyne in England.

I don't have an exact birth date for William so I'll write about his beginnings here.  He was born in Muthill, Perthshire in about 1837.  He was the fourth child of the five born to Peter Fisken, a sawyer and Elizabeth Crerar.  His sister Flora of above, was a year younger than him.  

William became a sawyer.  I'm not sure how long he remained in Perthshire but presumably until he was old enough to be off on his own.  We find him on the 1861 census already in Dunbartonshire - in Tarbet on Loch Lomond - lodging with his future parents-in-law, the Campbells.  He married one of their daughters, Lily Campbell in 1868.  I will already have written about the marriage last month as the date was April 30th.  But I will re-iterate here:  William and Lily were married in Dumbarton in the church which I visited last year.  What a treat that was!  William was 30 years old and Lily was 29.  She was a dressmaker.  Lily already had a child - Neil - who was 10 years old at time of the marriage.  Neil had his biological father's surname (MacDonald) but went by his mother's name Campbell.  William and Lily had six children between 1869 and 1882.  The fifth child was Catherine Fisken - our direct line - she is your great grandmother.

After Catherine - your great grandmother - married her first cousin William Fisken Glover of Northumberland/Newcastle in 1904, she moved to Newcastle.  This occured just shortly after her mother Lily died.  A few years later, William (the William Fisken of today's post) moved to Newcastle too.  And interestingly three of his adult children moved too.  So this was the migration of the Fisken name into the Newcastle area.  At one point he was the head of the household at 92 Georges Road in Newcastle and four of his adult chldren as well as his son-in-law William Glover and his and Catherine's three children (my dad's siblings) were living with him.  This is according to the census taken in 1911.  Sometime after that the Glover/Fisken couple (your great grandparents) moved to 88 Ethel Street (an address which remained "in the family" (though never owned) until 1960).  And it was at 88 Ethel Street that William Fisken died on May 18th in 1917.  He was 79 years old, a retired wood sawyer.  He died from bronchitis.

I've never been able to figure out where he is buried. I would like to do so.  It's one of my ongoing challenges!

I will just finish up with a brief update on those other children (other than great great grandmother Catherine) of William and Lily.  In birth order:

• Mary McFarlane Fisken married a seaman of Bristol and she lived down there (and hence set off the chain of events which caused me to have an aunt and uncle in Bristol)
• Elizabeth Lilly Allan Fisken went to Newcastle.  Never married.  She was the "Aunt Lil" my dad would speak of (I actually believed she raised my dad - but maybe not exactly).  Aunt Lil was still living when I was born but I have no personal memory of her.  Alison does of course.  She remembers her as very formidable lady who scared her half to death!
• William Fisken moved to Newcastle and worked in the shipyards.  He doesn't seem to have married - he certainly was still single at age 40.  I lose him after that.  
• Alan Campbell Fisken went to Australia!  It is two of his grandchildren in Adelaide with whom I'm in contact.
• And finally, Duncan Campbell Fisken went to Newcastle as part of the Fisken Wave.  He was a ship's carpenter.  He married Eva Ferguson in Newcastle when he was 29.  They moved south - first to Cheshire and then to the greater London area.  He died in 1953 at age 70.  He and Eva had one child - a son Alan who was killed in 1945.  He was a flying officer in the RAF.  He left a widow and a young son. 

Change of Pace

I'm going to change the terms of reference for this project.  By including all ancestors with whom we share "blood", the project is overwhelming - and more to the point, not achieving what I intended.

Because there are so many that come up I haven't had time to do what I wanted - to review what I already had documented and to research further.

So, I've decided that I'm going to just work on your pedigree line.  These are your direct ancestors.  So the parents of parents of parents, etc.  No siblings therefore no cousins.

May 9th

222 years ago today, on May 9th in 1797, George West was born.  He is your 5th great uncle.   His parents were Ferryden fishers John West and Janet Simpson - they are your 5xgreat grandparents.  They had eleven children including their second born George - but our blood line descends through his brother Alexander who was born a couple of years later.

As with a lot of the Ferryden folk, I can't determine with any confidence further information about George.  There are so many people with the same name.  Once civil registration was instituted in 1855 there is a better chance of confirming that you've got the right person.  i.e. in terms of marriage, rather than the church just jotting down George West of this parish married Annie Coull of this parish, we get information about their ages, their parents, where they lived etc.  Lots of clues to follow!  Same with death and birth certificates.

It didn't look like this in 1797 I'm sure!!

May 7th

On May 7th in 2004 Clive John Lincoln died.  Clive is your first cousin once removed.  He is my first cousin having been the child of a brother of my mother.

But I never knew him.  I knew of his existence but it wasn't until I began doing genealogy did I find anything out about him.  He was a child lost to the family through various circumstances I suppose but mainly because of the the war.

If you flip back to February 4th you can refresh yourself in regards to Clive's birth - and the April 4th post for his first marriage.  (We'll get to his second marriage in September).

But today we are noting his death.  I was very sad to find this certficiate because it meant I was never going to know him.  The certificate also made no mention of family.  The informant was a neighbour which may mean something or nothing of course.  At the time of his death he was a scaffolder and living at 13 Greywood Avenue in the Fenham district of Newcastle.  The cause of his death, as certified by a coroner (he had an inquest, the reason for which is maybe worth my while following up) was Left Sided Pneumothorax and Pulmonary Emphysema.  He was 64 years old.

May 6th

On May 6th in 1831 Hugh Morrice was born.  Hugh is your first cousin 4X removed being the son of 4th great aunt Margaret Matthew.  Hugh was Margaret and John Morrice's 4th of nine children.  He was born in a crofter's cottage in Greystone in the parish of Monquhitter.

Greystone and Bell Croft (geograph.org.uk)

May 5th

On Mary 5th in 1902 your great great grandfather William Glover died.  He was the much respected minister of the congregational church in Horsley in Northumberland.  William was born and raised in Castle Donington in the east midlands of England.  He was married twice.  First to Celia Adams with whom he had a daughter.  Sadly Celia died along with a second child.  William heeded the call to Northumberland to head the church at Horsley- which he did for 25 years during which time a new church was built "within budget"!  He married Flora Fisken who lived with her uncle, William Fisken (of plough fame) who was the minister of the presbyterian church in nearby Stamfordham.  William and Flora had two sons.  

On May 5th William was out and about visiting parishioners.  He stopped at Holeyn Hall cottage to rest where he "sighed and expired".  

He was 62 years old at the time of his death.  Cause was cardiac dilation syncope.  His funeral was reported in wonderful detail in the Hexham newspaper.  He is buried at the graveyard in nearby Ovingham.  

May 4th

May 4th in 1854 was when your fist cousin 3X removed, Alexander Ironside, was born in Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire.  The Ironside name came onto our family tree through the marriage of Alexander's father, also Alexander, to Jane Donald.  Alexander was their first born.  Eight siblings followed.  The family were crofters / farmers. 

And May 4th is also the day when your German grandparents got married.  Karl Muller and Klara Schwalb tied the knot in 1929.  I fear I know nothing about the marriage - but would assume it took place in Rheinbach or nearby - maybe in Fritzdorf where Oma was from.  At the time of the marriage Karl was 23, Klara was 22.

May 3rd

Got a bunch for May 3rd:

In 1815 Hellen Christie was born.  She is your 3rd great aunt.  She was born in Mannellan in Banffshire, Scotland.  She was the 2nd child of nine for farmers John Christie and Helen Gordon.  She was baptised on May 14th.

It's also the birthday of your great great grandmother Isabella Donald.  She was born in Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire to farmer George Donald and Ann Matthew.  She was their fourth child and many more (not totally sure just how many) followed.

Then there's the birth of your 3x great aunt, Christian Smith Donald in 1847.  She's a sister of Hellen above but by the time Christian was born, the family had moved into Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire.

It's certainly the day for the Donalds!  Next up is Ann Donald - another 3rd great aunt of yours - sister to Hellen and Christian.  On this day in 1856 she married Andrew Clark.  At the time of the marriage she was 19 years old and a domestic servant. Andrew was 26 and a farm servant.  They were married in Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire.

Now to a 2nd great-aunt - but still in the same family - the Aberdeenshire clan.  Christina Christie died on this day in 1891.  She was just 19 years old.  She died at Ewebrae Croft.  She was a domesic servant, the daughter of your great great grandparents, Adam Christie and Isabella Donald (same person as above).  Cause of death was Phthisis Pulmonalis.

May 1st

On May 1st in 1959 your second cousin 2X removed, Annie Isabella Glover, died in Newcastle upon Tyne.  She was a packer at a chemists as a young adult.  She married Henry Mason at age 33.  They had no children.  She was 67 when she died and had been recently widowed.

 

 

April 30th

On April 30th in 1861 your first cousin 4X removed, Philip Barker Fisken, was born.  His father was Thomas, one of the Fisken brothers of steam plough fame.  His mum was Frances Barker.  Philip was born in Crieff in Perthshire.  He was Thomas and Frances' third child (of four).

Also on this day - in 1868 - your great great grandparents, Lily Campbell and William Fisken, were married.  

Great Great Grandparents, William & Lily

Last fall when I was in Glasgow I visited the church where they were married in Dumbarton which was pretty cool.  

William was 30 at the time of the marriage.  He was sawyer and living in Tarbet on Loch Lomond in Dunbartonshire.  Lily was 29 and a dressmaker.  She also lived in Tarbet.  But they were married in Dumbarton - at the church on West Bridgend - and they continued to live in Dumbarton.  The church where they were married is the "old" church.   A new church was built right next to a few years later.  Both church buildings remain - but the "new" one (which is really quite old now) is used for worship, the old old church is used as the church hall.  The photo is one I took last year.

And another birth on this day was of Archibald John Page Glover.  He is your first cousin 2x removed.  He was born in 1916 in Newcastle upon Tyne.  He is the son of great grandfather William Fisken Glover's brother, Archibald Ritchie Lawrence Glover and Caroline Anne Page.  Of particular interest is that his first marriage was to Pauline Anna Emma Weisse who is the daughter of Grace Marie Igel who figured in the recent BBC production of A House Through Time (which you will watch very soon!).

April 28th

On this day in 1891 your second cousin 3X removed, William Butchart Coull, was born in Dundee in Scotland.  He was the 7th of the eleven children of Archibald Coull and Ann Burchart.  The Coulls were originally from Ferryden.  Sadly William didn't see his first birthday.  He died a few months later from bronchitis.

April 27th

On this day in 1879 - 140 years ago - grandad Glover was born.  This is William Fisken Glover - your great grandfather.  My dad's dad about whom we have recently learned that he fathered a child before he married great grandma.  

Great Grandad was born in the Northumberland village of Horsley (I hope you'll see just where he was born next month!!).  His father, William, was the minister of the congregational church there.  His mother was Flora Fisken.  He was their first child but he also had a half-sister, Gertrude, who was the child of his dad's first marriage.

The Manse at Horsley

Also on this day - in 1947 - Victor McBean West married Marjorie Vera Turk.  Victor is your first cousin 2x removed.  He was grandma's first cousin and I remember meeting him once.  He had a brief pop-in visit with us at Duchess Street.  I was about 8 or 9 I think and as he was leaving he put a coin in my hand and I was gobsmacked that it was half a crown!  

Victor and Marjorie were married in Isleworth Congregational Church in Middlesex.  He was a 25 year old bachelor, a police constable (at the time he was a police constable in Perthshire, Scotland - he continued his career with the police down south).  Marjorie was also 25 and was a widow.  

April 26th

For today we head for the U.S. again - to Barre in Vermont where on this day in 1990 your 2nd cousin once removed, Henry Milne, died.

The Milne name married into the Riddel family who after marrying into the Christie family left Aberdeenshire to work in the granite industry in Vermont.

Henry was born in Barre and seems to have lived most of his life in Vermont.  It would appear that he was a political figure like other Milnes and was a lawyer.  I don't have much info on him.  I'm quite sure I could find out more detail - but I'm finding it a bit time consuming making sure I've got the right Milne - so will just leave it at this for now or I'll never get caught up on this blog!!

Henry was married to Catharine Fraher with whom he had four children.  He died in Manchester, New Hampshire.  He was 81.

April 24th

We have just one event today - a marriage.  On April 24th in 1784 Sarah Glover married Richard Dexter.  This is going way back in time and back to Castle Donington, the cradle of our Glovers.  Sarah was the daughter of John Glover and Mary who are your 5th great grandparents.  Sarah herself is your 5th great aunt.

Sarah was 25 when she married Richard Dexter in Castle Donington.  I don't know much about the couple or what Richard did for a living but they had at least one child, Mary.  Most of the information I have is from the very detailed will, the original of which I saw in Castle Donington in 2016, of Sarah's father, John Glover.  Dad left his daughter some money with the proviso that it was for her alone and should not be used for any benefit to her husband.  This maybe suggests John wasn't too keen on his son-in-law.

These events (birth of Sarah, Richard and their daughter were all before civil registration and so it is more difficult to confirm facts.

St Edward King & Martyr church where Sarah and Richard were probably married

April 23rd

On this day, April 23rd 1887, Elspet West died.  She is your 5th great aunt - being the sister of 4Xgreat grandfather Alexander West.  Elspet was the 11th of eleven children of Ferryden fisherman John West and Janet Simpson.

I reported on Elspet's birth earlier this month.  She lived her whole life in Ferryden.  She married a Ferryden fisherman, Robert Anderson and they had eight children.  She died of Phthisis (tuberculosis) which she'd had for two years.  She'd been a widow for three years.  She was 66 years old.

Ferryden from the harbour today

April 22nd

On this day in 1859 - 160 years ago - Adam Tawse was born.  He is your 1st cousin 3X removed.  He was born in Monquhitter in Aberdeenshire - the fourth child (of nine) born to blacksmith James Tawse and Mary Donald.  Mary is your 3Xgreat aunt.  Interestingly enough there is another Adam Tawse from the same area who left Aberdeenshire and came to Manitoba.  But I'm pretty sure it's a different person - though likely related.  Another line of research to pursue!

Another birth on this day is that of Flora Anne Page Glover.   She was born in 1919 in Newcastle upon Tyne.  She is your first cousin 2X removed.  Her father is Archibald Ritchie Lawrence Glover -  the brother of William Fisken Glover - my dad's dad.  Archibald was a bank clerk.  Flora's mum was Caroline Anne Page.  Flora was their second (and last) child.  Her older brother is also called Archibald (Archie) - and he's the fellow who married Grace Marie Igel's daughter Pauline (made famous by the BBC's A House Through Time which you'll see sometime soon).

The Westgate Road in 1920 - West End of Newcastle - fairly close to where the Glovers lived.

April 21st

On this day, April 21st, we go way back to 1795 for the birth of James West who is your 5X great uncle!  The name WEST means we're on Grandma's side of the family and in Ferryden.  James was the first of the eleven children born to Fisherman John West and Janet Simpson.  (it seems to me that I have written quite a few times about families with 11 children.  Just couldn't make the round dozen I guess).

Next we have a marriage on this day (and a death actually - see below).  In 1860 Helen Morrice married James Lamb.  Helen is your first cousin 4X removed and James is also your first cousin 4X removed!  Yes, Helen and James are first cousins to eachother (their mothers are sisters) and you are connected by blood to both of them through the Christie/Donald/Matthew line.

They were married in the manse of Monqhitter.  James was 22 years old, a bachelor and a farm labourer.  Helen was 33 years old - never previously married.  They don't seem to have any children but they lived and worked on Graystone Farm in Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire for four plus more decades.  Helen died in 1905 but oddly enough, James died on this day - April 21st in 1913.

And finally, on this day - in 1933 - Francis McNee West was married. He's your first cousin 2X removed (he was a first cousin to grandma).  I bet you're thinking WEST!  Must be Ferryden!  But no.  As we get into more recent times, a lot of the Ferryden folk have moved away from the east coast.  Most to the west side of the country - to Clydebank and Glasgow.  Francis married Rose Dolan in the Church of Our Holy Redeemer in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.  He was 38 at the time, a bachelor and a butcher's salesman by trade.  She was a spinster aged 26 and worked in a garage.

I'm interested in pursuing a bit more research into this family unit.  Francis and Rose seem to have had twin daughters.  And there was movement to New Zealand via Australia by one of them, if not both - and also Francis.  A grandson in New Zealand was in contact with me a while back.  Not sure what happened to Rose the bride of this day 86 years ago.

April 20th

Your 4th great grandfather, Alexander West, was born on this day in 1799 in Ferryden.  He was the third child of the eleven born to fisherman John West and Janet Simpson.

Robert Christie Paterson, who you "met" on March 5th (date of his birth) got married on this day in 1938.  Robert was a 25 year old  farm servant in Aberdeenshire when he married Christina Clark Crighton Cheyne.  Christina was 20 years old and a domestic servant.  They were married in the Club House at Fyvie.  Robert is your 1st cousin twice removed.  Robert and Christina had six children and lived in Turriff, Aberdeenshire.

Of some interest is that Robert, a few months before his wedding, was hauled up before the sheriff.  He and a friend were accused of stealing 32lbs of apples from an orchard.