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From: Elsa Vorwerk & Bill Wood <>
Subject: WILSONs not in OPRs
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:51:18 -0400


Responding to Kay Bastin:

First let me say that I don't have an answer, only
another question! Having great difficulty tracking down
the family origins of my Peter Wilson, and since his
wife was born in Muirkirk, Ayr, I'm thinking that perhaps
there were other Wilsons there who weren't having births
and marriages registered for one reason or another. My
Peter Wilson (according to his Buffalo NY death certificate)
was born in Scotland c1832, parents Robert Wilson and
Agnes (surname unknown). This would make his father
Robert Wilson a contemporary of your James Wilson,
possibly a sibling or other relative.

Peter Wilson married Margaret Simpson in the mid-
1850s and they had one son William before emigrating,
but there is no record of their marriage either. I guess
I've been fortunate that Margaret Simpson's mother Jean
Craig Simpson emigrated with them and lived to the age
of 90, to die in 1884, therefore providing more history of
the family despite the lack of it in the OPRs.

Does anyone else have Wilsons in Ayr during the first
half of the 1800s who were not included in the registration
process?

Elsa in Allegany County, Maryland, USA


Kay Bastin wrote:
I have Anne LOVE aka Mary Ann who married James WILSON in Kilmarnock in 1829. They
left for New Zealand in 1839 aboard the 'Bengal Merchant' from Greenock. She was
down as age 32 on the passenger list so could be born in 1807 approx. Their
children were: John, Jessie, James, Thomas, Robert then Allan, Annie and Margaret
in New Zealand. I have only been able to guess at her parents because I haven't
found her birth or death certificate yet. Family story was that her son Robert (my
ggrandfather) visited his mother's grave at Highgate Cemetery when he came to
London on a visit. This seemed most odd as she was in NZ and anyway we thought she
came from Scotland. However it transpires that they returned to London for some
reason in 1866 and she died there sometime later and was buried in Highgate
Cemetery. So did one of their daughters. James WILSON returned to NZ with the
other daughter. I'm still looking for his parents as his death cert. only said
'Father Wilson Gentleman ' and that he was born in Ayrshire.

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