Thread: Williamina ROBIN mystery child?

Hello fellow researchers,
Do you have a mystery child or person in your family?

In the 1901 SCT census:
Glasgow, SCT St. George in the Fields
William ROBIN.....................Head [ have doc records] 1874-1963
Helen " .....................Wife " 1876-1915
Helen J.N." .....................Dau " 1898-1913
Williamina" ..................... " [no birth/death records?] age on census could be 4mths, 14 mths
or 14 yrs old very hard to read too many cross marks?
Was she really a daughter, helper or relative of the family? Or possibily did she die with no record?]

Where is sweet Williamina ROBIN?
Who was she?
How old was she?
I have several birth records for Williamina that I went out-of-the-box for. Thought maybe Helen 'Nellie' Burns may have had a brother? Maybe making too much of this? What are your thoughts?
Maybe she died very young and her birth and death were never registered?

Wonder if this is Williamina Robin
marraige to RALPH LEDDRA oct qtr 1917 Plymouth Devon vol 5b page 604
The surname differs also it says on freebmd LODDRA

Makes you think why she came to be wed in Plymouth, Devon .....
Birth dec qtr 1920 Yvonne H G Plymouth,Devon vol 5b page 366

just found on familysearch.org Parents to Williamina Robin ...father Eugene... mother Beatrice Elizabeth Charlotte Mauger
and this Williamina is born Devon .
Sorry this obviously isnt yours

Originally Posted by Hazelnut

Wonder if this is Williamina Robin
marraige to RALPH LEDDRA oct qtr 1917 Plymouth Devon vol 5b page 604
The surname differs also it says on freebmd LODDRA

Makes you think why she came to be wed in Plymouth, Devon .....
Birth dec qtr 1920 Yvonne H G Plymouth,Devon vol 5b page 366

just found on familysearch.org Parents to Williamina Robin ...father Eugene... mother Beatrice Elizabeth Charlotte Mauger
and this Williamina is born Devon .
Sorry this obviously isnt yours

Thank you Hazelnut! I had searched that too and several other similar names. Did not however know the parents. Infact I went crazy on Scotland's People sereaching almost any Williamina. She, I think will remain my sweet Williamina mystery girl. She may have been a child of a liason. I have found that my grandfather receiving a substantial inheritance at age 18, 21 and 40 was quiet a, shall we say 'playboy'. He was a handsome tall man with money and lived the high life traveling coming from two affluent families-Robin & Neilson. My mom knew this from stories from her Aunt Kitty my grandfather's sister. There was a terrible scandle [don't know the details] by Victorian terms probably today no one would care.

Originally Posted by gillian

No success so far. The census image says daughter clearly and her entry is last so it is likely the age is 4 months. Have searched all Robin (and Robins) births and have found nothing. Even (unlikely) if she was someone else's child the birth record should show up.
In fact I am having just the same problems as you have experienced.
Gillian

Thank you, Gillian!

Yes, I was thinking she had to be 4 months old. Well she will be my Sweet Williamina mystery girl; but at least she is thought of after all these years! I found this poem on my travels and when I think of some of my ancestors I find these words comforting. Even though I don't know the burial places just finding their names on the census and other records is still fact that they lived.

Dear Ancestor

* * * * * * Your Headstone stands among the rest,
* * * * * * Neglected and alone
* * * * * * The name and date are chiseled out
* * * * * * On polished,marble stone.

* * * * * * It reaches out to all who cares
* * * * * * It is to late to mourn.
* * * * * * You did not know that I exist
* * * * * * You died and I was born.

* * * * * * Yet each of us are cells of you
* * * * * * In flesh,in blood, in bone.
* * * * * * Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
* * * * * * Entirely not are own.

* * * * * * Dear ancestor the place you filled
* * * * * * One hundred years ago
* * * * * * Spreads out among the ones you left
* * * * * * Who would have loved you so.

* * * * * * I wonder if you lived and loved,
* * * * * * I wonder if you knew
* * * * * * That someday i would find this spot
* * * * * * And come to visit you.

Author Unknown.*
__Monumental Inscriptions: A Beautiful Poem* found on the Merchant Navy rootschat 2005__
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