Thomson and Thompson

I think it is long overdue that I introduce you all to my Scottish branch which begins with my 6x great-grandparents Robert Thomson, ship carpenter, and Margaret Cargill. Scottish records are without question the most organised and detailed records you will ever come across.

Robert and Margaret had one son who was also called Robert, and my 5x great-grandfather, on 17^8th December 1784 in Wemyss, Fife. Robert Jnr (seaman) did stay in Wemyss as his marriage to Margaret Leitch (1785-1865) on 1^st December 1812 is registered there. They eventually moved to Burntisland, Fife where they had 7 children:

1.     Janet Thomson b. 15^th September 1813

2.     Margaret Thomson b. 30^th April 1816, m. Andrew Gilmour c.1836 and d. 12^th February 1889 in Burntisland, Fife. They had 13children all of whom were born in Burntisland.

3.     Barbara Thomson b. 30^th April 1816

4.     Robert Thomson b. 17^th November 1820, m. Catherine Morrison on 26^th January 1845. They had one daughter Margaret Leitch Thomson b. 4^th July 1845, she married a Joseph Barckwich on 22 January 1866in Leith, Midlothian

5.     Peter Thomson b. 9^th October 1822

6.     Thomas Thomson b. 28^th September 1828

7.     James Thomson (4x great-grandfather, Blacksmith) b. 1^st May1831, m. Elizabeth Carstairs on 16^th July 1855 in Edinburgh, Midlothian and d. 18^th August 1882 in Kinghorn, Fife from stomach cancer. They had 10 children.

Merchant seamen records suggest that Robert did do some form of military service before his death on 21^st February 1859in Burntisland, Fife.

Margaret Thomson and Andrew Gilmour Children:

1.     Margaret Gilmour b. 29^th January 1838

2.     Andrew Gilmour b. 25^th May 1839

3.     Barbara Thomson Gilmour b. 25^th July 1840

4.     Jane Dalrymple Anderson Gilmour b. 5^th March 1842

5.     Sophia Murray Gilmour b. 19^th June 1844

6.     Andrew Gilmour b. 6^th October 1847, m. Charlotte Walker on 20^thDecember 1872

7.     Jane Turnbull Leitch Gilmour b. 26^th April 1849, m. JohnBrown on 11^th October 1869 in Burntisland

8.     John Gilmour b. 26^th September 1851

9.     Thomas Thomson Gilmour b. 5^th March 1853

10.  Margaret Leitch Gilmour b. 4^thMarch 1855

11.  George Murray Gilmour b. 6^thApril 1857

12.  Barbara Thomson Gilmour b. 31^stMarch 1859

13.  Agnes Hope Gilmour b. 16^thAugust 1866

James Thomson and Elizabeth Carstairs children:

1.     Margaret Thomson b. 30th November 1856 in Cramond, m. James Black on 11^thNovember 1872 and d. 1^st October 1933 in Canada. There is at least one daughter Isabella Cunningham Black b. 13^th August 1874 in Kirknewtown and East Calder, Midlothian.

2.     Peter Thomson (3x great-grandfather) b. 29^th April 1858 in Cramond, m. Jessie Brown on 12^th September 1879 in Kinghorn, Fife and d. 11^th July 1939 in County Down

3.     James Lockhart Thomson b. 7^th July 1860 in Cramond

4.     Janet Leitch Thomson b. 6^th November 1862 in Burntisland

5.     William Thomas Thomson b. 16^th December 1864 in Burntisland

6.     Elizabeth Carstairs Thomson b. 4^th July 1867 in Burntisland,m. John Trotter on 8^th November 1893 in Edinburgh

7.     A son born in 1868 in Cramond

8.     Barbara Charlotte Thomson b. 22^nd July 1869 in Burntisland,m. Robert Cochrane on 2^nd November 1892 in Tipperary, Ireland and d.18^th October 1950 in Cupar, Fife

9.     Ann Thomson b. 27^th March 1872 in Kinghorn, Fife

10.  Mary Ann Thomson b. 6^thMarch 1875 in Kinghorn, Fife

Peter worked as a riveter in Scotland before moving to Belfast so he could work in the shipyards. He and his wife Jessie had eight children, seven of whom were born in Kinghorn, Fife with the exception of the youngest who was born in Middlesex, England

1.     Helen Thomson b. 8^th February 1880, m Alexander Kirkwood on20^th October 1900 in Belfast and d. 17^th May 1945 in Belfast

2.     James Thomson b. 19^th November 1881, Caroline McCay on 25^thDecember 1901 in Belfast

3.     Peter Brown Thomson b. 29^th November 1883, m. Wilhelmina Kennedy on 12^th December 1907 in Belfast and d. 10^thApril 1958 in Perthshire

4.     Isabella Thomson b. 18^th August 1886, m. Samuel Robert Fleck Kyle on 12^th May 1906 in Belfast and d. 19^th October 1926

5.     Elizabeth Thomson b. 20^th November 1888, m. Hugh Duncan on 25^thDecember 1907

6.     William Thomson b. 11^th February 1889, m. Leah Harper Brown on 5^th June 1918 in Belfast

7.     Jessie Thomson (2x great-grandmother) b. 26^th October 1890,m. Robert George McGaffin on 26^th November 1911 in Belfast and d. 30^thDecember 1959 in Belfast

8.     Margaret Carstairs Thomson b. 3^rd December 1892. William Nelson on 25^th December 1913 in Belfast and d. 26^thDecember 1974 in Sydney

Elizabeth Carstairs Thomson and John Trotter children, the eldest was born in Edinburgh whilst the rest were born in Wales:

1.     Alexander C Hander Thomas Trotter b. 1895 and d. 8^th February1917 in France

2.     James Henry Trotter b. 30^th July 1896

3.     Robert Adam Trotter b. April 1899

4.     Elizabeth Carstairs Trotter b. January 1902

5.     John William Thomson Trotter b. 3^rd January 1905

Helen Thomson and Alexander Kirkwood children all of whom were born in Belfast:

1.     James Kirkwood b. 1^st April 1901

2.     Jessie Kirkwood b. 17^th March 1902

3.     Eileen Kirkwood b. 30^th October 1911

James Thomson and Caroline McCay children all of whom were born in Belfast:

1.     Jessie Thomson b. 23^rd September 1902

2.     James Thomson b. 13^th June 1904

3.     Caroline Thomson b. 10^th May 1907, m. Alex Houston on 25^thAugust 1925

4.     Ellen Thomson b. 12^th January 1909

5.     Barbara Thomson b. 14^th January 1911

6.     Frank McLeod Thomson b. 6^th July 1915

7.     William Thomson b. 18^th February 1918

8.     Margaret Thomson b. 8^th February 1919

Peter Brown Thomson and Wilhelmina Kennedy Children, five of whom were born in Belfast with the exception of the youngest three who were born in Stirlingshire:

1.     Peter Thomson b. 8^th November 1907

2.     William Thomson b. 16^th July 1909 and d. 5^th July1910 of pneumonia

3.     Eileen Thomson b. 1^st August 1912

4.     Robert Coleman Thomson b. 7th January 1914

5.     Wilhelmina Thomson b. 7th January 1915, m. Percy Faith on 5^thMay 1945

6.     James Thomson b. 1918

7.     Andrew Kirkwood Thomson b. 1920

8.     Alexander Kennedy Thomson b. 1923

Isabella Thomson and Samuel Robert Fleck Kyle Children:

1.     William James Kyle b. 11^th October 1906, m. Annie Wright and d. March 1977 in Yorkshire

2.     Samuel Robert Kyle b. 21^st  November 1907

3.     Elizabeth Kyle b. 13^th April 1909

4.     Isabella Kyle b. 4^th February 1911

5.     Ethel Kyle b. 1926

6.     Robert Kyle

7.     Gladys Kyle

Elizabeth Thomson and Hugh Duncan Children:

1.     Richard Duncan b. 4th October 1908 and d. 16^th May 1914

2.     Hugh Duncan b. 5th October 1913

3.     Margaret Nelson Duncan b. 3rd February 1916

4.     Florence Duncan b. 11th December 1922

5.     Thompson Duncan b. 25^th May 1928

Jessie Thomson and Robert George McGaffin Children:

1.     Robert George McGaffin (my-great grandfather) b. 13th March 1913 - d.28th March 1985, married Mary Shannon in 1936 in Belfast. They had four children.

2.     James Renwick McGaffin b. 23rd March 1921, m. Annie Paton in 1942 and d.24th February 1996 in Belfast. They had two children including a son Thomas (1942-1943)

3.     Jessie Sarah McGaffin b. 15th September 1916 and d. 11th January 1997

4.     Peter Renwick McGaffin b. 24th April 1914 and d. 4th September 1914

Margaret Carstairs Thomson and William Nelson Children:

1.     Alexander Donaldson Nelson b. 1^st June 1915 and d. 8^th June1944 in New South Wales, Australia

2.     Peter Thomson Nelson b. 28th February 1917 and d. 20^thFebruary 1989 in Cambridgeshire, England

3.     Jeanie Nelson b. 19^th May 1918 and d. November 1996 in New South Wales

4.     Margaret Nelson b. 9th December 1919 and d. 20^th March 2002in New South Wales

5.     William Nelson b. 12^th  November 1922 and d. 12^th June 1989in Queensland

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