Genealogy Chat

My 85 year old mother will be thrilled to hear all this information. Therese is her grandmother. Thank you! Her father is William Henry Webber b 1905.

Thank you AustinQ for spending precious credits on me. I am more than happy to settle up payment. It means everything to have the information about close family. :-) :-)

My pleasure Lavender- They were just spare credits I've had for a while, very happy I could put them to good use.

Catherine still remains a mystery though- hopefully we can find something positive on her soon.

Thank you for your kindness. I shall order some certificates where it helps and start to look at Catherine. My niece shares the same name chosen without the family knowledge. All good :-)

Lovely to tell my mother the name of her Gt Grandmother :-)

I said that Amy's daughters were born in Scotland but muddled as usual.. was another Amy.. I haven't looked into whether Amy Fletcher had children yet.

There were large numbers of O'neil births in Glasgow 1902-17, and unfortunately it's not possible (after 1854) to use mother's maiden name as a search term on Scotlands People website, so can't narrow it down.

Even her death cert won't help, as no child of hers would have been old enough to be the informant.

I've used a few credits to look at the 1911 census.

By 1911 they'd had one child, who had died..

Living in one of many flats at 260 Stobcross Street, Anderston, Glasgow:

John O'Neill, 42, engineers labourer, shipbuilding, born Glasgow.
Amy O'Neill, 40, born England.
Violet Webber, Neice, 10, school, born England.
(also three boarders).

Mother's maiden names are gradually being added to death records on SP, but at the moment there's no record of a death in Glasgow 1902-11 with mms Fletcher.

I presume this is Amy in 1901. (Scotland'speople transcription have her ageas 28 (not 20- but I haven't viewed the original). 76 Gallowgate was the address on Amy's marriage certificate.

Name: Amy Fletcher
Age: 20
Estimated birth year: abt 1881
Relationship: Lodger
Gender: Female
Where born: England
Registration Number: 644/5
Registration district: Blackfriars
Civil Parish: Glasgow St Andrew
Town: Glasgow
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 76 Gallowgate
Occupation: Stay Machine Flourisher
ED: 37 Household schedule number: 87
LINE: 23 Roll: CSSCT1901_285

Household Members:
William Robertson 40
Christinea Robertson 35
Thomas Robertson 13
Peter Robertson 21
Amy Fletcher 20
Isabella Denigle 23

FMP have Isabella as surname Genigle- this is possibly one of the witnesses from Amy's marriage:

Witnesses to Amy's marriage in 1902 were:

Thomas Seymour & Isabella Gingell

Assuming the child died in the Anderston area, and assuming he/she was not born before the marriage, these are the possible deaths. A few credits (for each record until you found the right one!) would let you see or print the image of the original document:

O'NEILL
SAMUEL
0
1904
644/10 262
Anderston

O'NEILL
EDWARD JOHN
2
1906
644/10 542
Anderston


O'NEILL
ALICE
0
1909
644/11 35
Anderston


O'NEIL
ANDREW
0
1902
644/10 301
Anderston



O'NEIL
ANNIE MITCHELL
2
1904
644/10 61
Anderston


O'NEIL
ANNIE
2
1904
644/10 588
Anderston


O'NEIL
HUGH
2
1904
644/10 445
Anderston


O'NEIL
THOMAS
5
1909
644/11 509
Anderston


O'NEIL
PATRICK JOSEPH
0
1911
644/11 319
Anderston



EDIT:

As John O'Neil''s father was Hugh, I would suggest maybe the child Hugh (died 1904) might be the one to try first.

Wow, thank you again.. lots to go at for me.

Violet Webber, niece.. she eventually moves to Worthing, Sussex.

I will start looking for Catherine O'Shea now I've had that breakthrough.. <3

Thank you also Argyll Gran, so kind <3

Thank you so much Chris Ho :)... <3

Somehow I managed to miss the newspaper article which is hugely interesting to me!! I was just re-reading everything and found it.. such a lovely surprise.

Can't thank you enough for that. Many thanks for your time :-D :-D

The newspaper article is also of family interest since one of Therese's daughters, Dorothy M Webber b 1898 was sent to an institution at a young age suffering with epilepsy. The story went that she jumped out of a window but maybe there was more to it and actually the illness was in the family. She died young.