Robert Steven(son) - MMFMF

[Shona]

Name:
Robert Steven

The name evolves to Stevenson in later generations.

Date and place of birth:
c1838, Galston, Ayrshire

Parents:
Montgomery Steven, muslin weaver, and Elizabeth nee Connell

Marriage:
1 Sarah Murdoch. Died in Galston in 1862 from TB
2 Margaret McCallum, 24, widow. Banns: 31 December 1863. Marriage: 22 January 1864, Sandbed, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire

Occupation:
Coal miner from the age of 13. Machine agent in 1877. Unemployed miner in 1881.

Lived in:
1841 Brewland, Galston, Ayrshire
- with parents
1851 Woodside, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
- with brother, George
1861 Howies Street, Galston, Ayrshire
- with first wife, Sarah, and children
1871 23 Sandbed Street, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire
- with second wife, Margaret, and children
1881 22 Boyd Street, Loudon, Ayrshire
- widowed, with his older brother, Montgomery, and extended family

Date, place and cause of death:
Not found

[kiterunner]

Ancestry shows a Robert Stevenson on the 1901 Scotland census age 60 born Galston, Ayrshire, occupation miner, a boarder at Napier Lodging House, Govan, Lanarkshire.

[Shona]

Ooh - thanks.

*claps hands in appreciation*

I hadn't found him in 1891, so had killed him off too early.

Googled Napier House - it was a lodging house for seamen whose ships were berthed on the Clyde or under repair in Govan dry docks. It was built between 1897 and 1899 to provide 'model' high-quality lodgings.

But...he was a miner not a seaman. I did notice some of the other people listed on the same entry were recorded as being in the Poor House.

[Shona]

...Napier House was demolished in 2009.