confused on this one

[MaryB]

Birth Neil McEwan Gage b. 1/6/1870 (b Greenock) mother Amor (Emma) Gage, wife of William Henry Pearce (Wm not the father) no marriage date


Neil is listed on the IGI as Neil McEwan Pearce as is his siblings (curnow pearce). 2 of his siblings birth cert list a marriage, which I have sent away for.

Neil's marriage cert - father William Curnow mother Susan??? Gage although looks like Sage

Emma's death cert - married to William Henry Pearce parents John Gage/Jane Kitchencom (think the kitchencom is wrong) and the english marr cert won't help


This is from the IGI



William Henry PEARCE married Emma GAGE
and their children are...

1. Fanny Curnow PEARCE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: F Birth: 17 Jan 1868 Middle Or New Parish, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland

2. George Henry Curnow PEARCE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: M Birth: 25 Aug 1872 Middle-East-West Parishes, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland

3. Neil Mcewen PEARCE - International Genealogical Index
Gender: M Birth: 1 Jun 1870 Middle Or New Parish, Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland

[AndrewP]

Hi Mary,

Here are the parents in the 1881 census (from the LDS CDs), an older daughter and son-in-law. No sign of the children that you have listed. Had they died young? Or were they elsewhere?

• Dwelling: Langwell Close 1st Low Door
  Census Place: Middle Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland
  Source: FHL Film 0203569 GRO Ref Volume 564-1 EnumDist 6 Page 2
  Marr Age Sex Birthplace
  Wm.H. PEARCE M 57 M England
  Rel: Head
  Occ: Seaman Merchantile
  Erna PEARCE M 55 F England
  Rel: Wife
  Occ: Seaman Wife
  James MUNRO M 27 M Keith, Banff, Scotland
  Rel: Son In Law
  Occ: Seaman Merchantile
  Jane MUNRO M 18 F England
  Rel: Daur
  Occ: Seaman Wife
  Margt. TAYLOR U 46 F England
  Rel: Servant
  Occ: Domestic Servant

To add to the list of names for the mother - this one is E-r-n-a (not Ema as it may look). You would need to view the census microfilm to see if that is a transcription error or if that is what the enumerator wrote.

Added later:
Deaths found on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk that are most likely this family.

• FANNY PEARCE, 1868, age 0, Greenock
  GEORGE PEARCE, 1873, age 1, Greenock

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

[MaryB]

Thanks Andrew. I had an idea that George and Fanny died young. Minnie the other daughter never married, and I think she was born England as well. Jane on the census, is my gt grandmother

Neil I found on the 1881 census, as Neil Gage, in the naughty boy's home

Emma/Erna/Amor - with the Cornish/Kent accent, goodness knows what the name is

[MaryB]

Forgot to add - the above james Munro, was supposed to have been murdered abroad, as the family story goes I'll find him one of these days