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GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 15 Aug 2012 20:46

Sarah,
It looks as if Richard Greenshields and Agnes Douglas moved to London.
Agnes was on the 1851 census in Edinburgh, but no husband in household.

Then, in 1861...

1861 England Census
about Agnes Greenshield
Name: Agnes Greenshield
Age:55
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1806
Relation:Wife
Spouse's Name: Richard Greenshield
Gender: Female
Where born: Scotland
Civil parish: St Marylebone
Ecclesiastical parish: St Paul
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Registration district: Marylebone
Sub-registration district: Christchurch
ED, institution, or vessel: 22
Household schedule number: 251
Piece: 85
Folio:40
Page Number: 39
15 UPPER CHARLTON STREET
Household Members:
Name
Richard Greenshield 54 B Scotland. Occ: Cabinet Maker
Agnes Greenshield 55 wife
James Greenshield 21 son B Scotland. Pianoforte Maker
Mary A Greenshield 5 g/daughter B Middlesex

Richard dies 1866

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
about Richard Greenshields
Name: Richard Greenshields
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1807
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1866
Age at Death: 59
Registration district: Marylebone
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a

1871
1871 England Census
about Agnes Greenshields
Name:Agnes Greenshields
Age 63
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1808
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Edinboro
Civil parish: St Marylebone
Ecclesiastical parish: All Souls
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Marylebone
Sub-registration district: All Souls
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Household schedule number: 262
Piece: 152
Folio:24
Page Number:41
12 GEORGE STREET
Household Members:Name

Agnes Greenshields 63 b Edinburgh
Agnes Greenshields 40 daughter b Edinburgh
Magdalin Greenshields 15 Grand daughter b Marleybone

I cannot locate a death for Agnes Greenshields b circa 1808, but there is one for the other Agnes Greenshields b 1832. She died in London in 1896.

Information overload:
James Greenshields bc 1839, Piano Maker
He married Caroline Judith Neal in St Pancras in 1873

The relevant census data is available if required

Anne







sarah

sarah Report 16 Aug 2012 12:53

Hi, thank you so much for all your help. Can you help me out again? I am really in a muddle!!!
Fraser 1900 siblings were Rose, William and Richard. parents Richard and Margaret. then i have Magadlene as the mother of Richard with William, Robert, David, Jessie and John as the siblings? I can't work it out in my head?
sarah x

GlasgowLass

GlasgowLass Report 16 Aug 2012 14:28

Ok Lets try and sort it out.

William Watt and Magdalen Greenshields married in Edinburgh 4 Jun 1854
Most Scottish births up until 1875 can be found on Family Search

Children of William and Magdalen: ( All born in Edinburgh)
Agnes Watt b 18 Oct 1855
Richard Watt b 4 Mar 1860 ***
James Archibald Sidney Watt b 5 Oct 1862
William Watt b 2 Feb 1865
Robert Ramage Foster Watt b 5 Mar 1867
David Watt 4 Sep 1869
Jessie Knox Watt b 17 Jun 1862
Williamina Pottinger Watt b 20 May 1874
John Watt bc 1876

Then Richard, son of William and Magdalen
Richard Watt married Margaret Munro in 1885
Children found on census records: ( all have Edinburgh as place of birth)

Rose F Watt bc 1885
William G Watt bc 1889
Richard F Watt bc 1894
Fraser Munro Watt b 1900



Edit:
After Magdalen and William married, Magdalen's parents Richard and Agnes ( Douglas) Greenshields moved to London with some of their other children.
They are found in London from 1861 onwards.