John Wellwood

Posted on January 11, 2011 by archivecookie

John Wellwood, born about 1823, is also not present in Scotland for the 1841 census.  He is, however, present in Glasgow for his marriage to Margaret Grant Thomson on June 3, 1845.  John and Margaret proceeded to have a 40-year marriage during which 8 children were born.  In 1851, they were living in Calton, Glasgow along with their oldest 3 children: George, born on Mar. 16, 1846; Jane, born on March 29, 1848; and Agnes Grant Wellwood, born on Sept. 21, 1850, all three having been born in Barony Parish, Glasgow.  John, Jr. was born on Dec. 18, 1852, also in Barony Parish, Glasgow.  Janet Gosland Wellwood followed on Feb. 6, 1855 in Bridgeton.  Elizabeth was the sixth child, born on April 8, 1857 in Bridgeton, and then Margaret, born on May 11, 1859, also in Bridgeton.  John and Margaret’s last child was Samuel Moses Wellwood, born on Dec. 11, 1861 in Bridgeton, Glasgow.  Samuel signed his father’s death record on Sept. 3, 1885 in Dennistoun.

George Wellwood married Helen Smith in Hutchesontown, Glasgow on July 20, 1869.  In the 1871 census, they had one daughter, Lizzie, who was a year old.  Upon checking the birth registers at ScotlandsPeople, I discovered her name to be not Lizzie or Elizabeth, but Margaret Brown Wellwood, who had been born to George and Helen on March 24, 1870 in Glasgow.  In the 1881 census, Helen is widowed and living at her mother’s house in Springburn with 2 daughters: Maggie and Helen.  Checking the birth registers shows that Helen Thomson Wellwood was born on Dec. 13, 1871 in the Hutchesontown district of Glasgow.  I have found no death record for George.  Her sister Maggie married, according to her record of death on Aug. 7, 1950 in Pollock, Glasgow, a man named James McCulloch Robertson.  I can find no record of the marriage, but according to her death record they were divorced.  The sisters were living with their aunt Margaret Smith in 1891 and neither was married, so Maggie’s marriage must have occurred after that time.  (Edit: I have found Maggie and her husband definitively in the 1901 census!  They are visiting her uncle Samuel Moses Wellwood in Paisley, Renfrew – both are 31 years of age and they have no children with them – so her marriage to James must have occurred between 1891 and 1901, likely closer to 1901.  End edit.)  (Just another quick edit: as you can see from the comments below, one of our readers has pointed me to the marriage date and location for this couple.  I will send for the certificate to get the exact date and will then post it here.  It turns out they were married in Lancashire, England in the first quarter of 1901.  End edit) (One further note:  James and Maggie had at least one child – a son named Cyril Wellwood Robertson born in Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland on Aug. 13, 1901.  On his birth record, the date and place of his parents’ marriage is given as Jan. 8, 1901 in Ormskirk, Lancashire.  James’ occupation is given as Artist.  Cyril died at the age of 17 on Mar. 29, 1919 in Cathcart, Glasgow of an infection from a ruptured appendix).  Helen (Smith) Wellwood died in Dennistoun on Mar. 23, 1886.  Helen Thomson Wellwood died in Dennistoun on Feb. 17, 1897 at the age of 15 of pthisis, or pulmonary tuberculosis.

George’s sister Jane married John W. Forrest on Sept. 21, 1877 in Dennistoun.  Beryl M. Smith signed her grandmother Jane’s death certificate on Jan. 21, 1940 in Pollock, Glasgow.  So, working backwards, I looked for a birth certificate for Beryl.  When that brought me no luck, I searched for a marriage between a female Forrest and a male Smith that might have been Beryl’s parents.  I also struck out there.  So I moved on – but will come back to it again later when I located a brother to Beryl…

(Edit – May 2, 2011:  Just a note here – as you can see from the comments, I now know that William Smith was Beryl M. Smith’s husband, not her brother.  Beryl Mary’s parents were Hugh Smith and Jeannie Wellwood McCallum Forrest, whose parents were the above Jane Wellwood and John W. Forrest.  I located Jeannie’s death certificate which lists her parents names and gives her death as October 3, 1932 in Springburn, Glasgow.  I also located a subsequent marriage for Hugh, just 2 months after his wife’s death, to his late wife’s father’s brother’s (Thomas’) daughter (his wife’s first cousin) Agnes Forrest who was 23 years his junior.  According to Beryl’s daughter, Beryl died in 2006 at the age of 97 (98 on the death record) and William died in 1994, at the age of 85 according to his death record.)

Agnes Grant Wellwood married Robert Ramsay in Glasgow on Jan. 14, 1873.  At some point during the year they travelled to the United States, as their first child, Margaret T., was born in Chicago, Illinois (according to the 1901 census, which gives her birth as Nov. 1873).  They then returned to Scotland, where their next 2 children were born: Jane Shaw Ramsay was born in Gorbals district, Glasgow on Oct. 10, 1875 (although the birth was registered in Hutchesontown) and John Wellwood Ramsay was born in Kinning Park, Glasgow on Sept. 23, 1878.  In the 1881 Scotland census the family is living in the Bothwell district of Glasgow and Margaret’s place of birth is simply given as America.  Robert is listed as a steel worker in the 1881 census, but on his son’s birth record a year and a half earlier he’s listed as a merchant seaman.  In November, 1881 Agnes and the children sailed on the FURNESSIA out of Glasgow to New York, arriving on Nov. 23.  I have not been able to locate Robert’s emigration, but it’s possible he was working the voyage, and so was not on the passenger list.  In the 1900 census, Agnes, Robert, and their son John are living in Everett, Ma.  Robert’s birth is given as Feb. 1851, Agnes’ (correctly) as Sept. 1850, and John W. (also correctly) as Sept. 1878.  Robert is a stevedore foreman in a steamship company.  He also had become a naturalized citizen, although his son John had not.  Also stated in this census is the information that Agnes has given birth to 3 children, all of which are still living.  I then looked on the NEHGS site to locate the marriages of the two girls, and found that Maggie had married Edgar Beach on Christmas day, 1896 in Everett, Mass.  Looking further, I discovered the birth of two children to them: Robert Ramsay Beach, born in Everett on June 21, 1898 and Harold William Beach, born on Nov. 12, 1902 also in Everett.  In the 1900 census the Beach family is living in the same house as Margaret’s parents, and her husband is a stevedore, presumably working for his father-in-law.  Returning to NEHGS, I discovered Jane had married Herbert Cook in Everett on May 26, 1897.  In the 1900 census, they have had no children.  By the 1910 census Robert, Agnes, and their still-unmarried son John have moved to Suffolk county, Mass. And live in the town of Winthrop.  The Beach family is still living at the same address, but in addition to two living children, Maggie has had a third child that died.   NEHGS tells us an unnamed daughter was born on Nov. 8, 1908 in Everett.  The birth records of all three children list Maggie’s place of birth as Chicago.  Finding no reference to a stillbirth, or a death in Everett for this third child, I looked in Winthrop and discovered she had been given the name Eleanor A. Beach and had died on March 13, 1910 just before the census, at a year and four months old, of tubercular meningitis.  Herbert Cook and his family are living in Winchester, Ma., and they have a 10-yr-old daughter Doris A.  I searched the NEHGS site, but could find no birth record for Doris.  By the 1920 census, Agnes and Robert are living alone in Winthrop – John is married and living in Wellesley, Ma. with his wife Ida and children John. W. Jr. and Virginia.  John married Ida Florence (Seaver) Heath on Nov. 28, 1911 in Winchester and the marriage was registered in both Winthrop and Winchester.  (Edit, June 23, 2011: This was Ida’s second marriage.  Ida was born on May 3, 1885 in Berwick Maine to George F. Seaver, Jr. and his wife Ella R. Waterhouse.)  Ida gave birth to an unnamed daughter in Winthrop on March 13, 1915.  This could not have been Virginia, as the age is wrong – Virginia was only 8 months old in the 1920 census, and John was 3 years and 8 months old.  As there was no child in the 1920 census who could have been this daughter, she must have died before 1920.  Jean and Herbert and Doris Cook are still living in Winthrop in 1920, as are Margaret, Edgar, and their sons Robert and Harold.  By the 1930 census, Agnes and Robert are nowhere to be found, and I assume they both died in Winthrop between 1920 and 1930.  Herbert and Jean are living alone on a poultry farm in North Attleborough, Ma. in 1930, and I have not been able to find Doris – I assume she married between 1920 and 1930.  Edgar, Margaret and their two unmarried sons are still living in Winthrop in 1930, and John and his family have moved to Bourne on Cape Cod.  In addition to John, Jr. and Virginia, John and Ida also have a 9 year old son named Robert.  According to the Social Security Death Index, John Jr. died on Dec. 4, 1976 in Ohio and was born on April 20, 1916, and Robert who died in May 1986 was born on Aug. 1, 1920.  I have no marriage or death information for Virginia Ramsay.  Robert and Harold Beach both died in Yarmouth, Ma. although I have no marriage information for them.

I’ll skip over John Wellwood, Jr., as the next post will be devoted to him and his descendants, and continue here with his sister Janet Gosland Wellwood.  Janet married James W. Jack on June 16, 1882 in Blythswood, Glasgow, Scotland.  They had no children.  James died on Dec. 19, 1938 in Pollock, Glasgow and Janet died there also on Oct. 22, 1944.  James’ death record was signed by his great-nephew-in-law William Smith, who I believe was a brother to Beryl Smith, Jane (Wellwood) Forrest’s granddaughter.  Beryl M. Smith signed her great-aunt Janet’s death record.

Elizabeth Wellwood never married.  She became a teacher, lived in London for a time, and then travelled to the United States on board the CAMERONIA out of Glasgow, arriving in New York on May 22, 1916.  She lived in New Jersey until she retired and then returned to Glasgow on the COLUMBUS out of New York, arriving on May 24, 1925.  Elizabeth died in Cathcart, Glasgow on April 11, 1939 as a result of a motor-car accident on March 26 of that year.  Her death record was signed by her great-nephew William Smith.

Margaret Wellwood has presented me with a bit of a puzzle.  There were two possibilities.

First: There is a marriage for Margaret Wellwood age 21, daughter of John and Jane (Madole) Wellwood on July 13, 1877 in Dennistoun, Lanarkshire.  It appears to be witnessed by Samuel Rowley, Fanny (Wellwood) Rowley’s son and hence Margaret’s uncle, but Samuel would have been only 14 at this time and I would have thought was too young to be a witness on an official document.  And Jane Madole (McDowall with a strong Irish accent) was John’s mother’s name, not Margaret’s mother’s.  Still, I believed this could be John’s daughter Margaret, and so initially followed this line.  The man this Margaret married was Henry Sharp, 2 years her junior.  In 1881 they are living in Jarrow, Durham county, England and have three children: James, age 2 who was born in Scotland, William (named for Henry’s father) age 1 who was born in So. Shields, Durham, and Charlotte (named for Henry’s mother) who is just a month old and was also born in So. Shields, Durham.  In the 1891 census, Margaret is living in Parr, Lancashire with children William, Charlotte, Margaret (age 8 and born in Glasgow), Isabella (age 6 and born in Hebron, Northumberland in England), and Elizabeth (age 4 and born in St. Helens, Lancashire).  Margaret is married and not widowed, but Henry is not present at the time of the census and Margaret is listed as head of the household.  In 1901 Margaret is a patient is the Glasgow District Lunatic Asylum in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.  She died there the following year, on Nov. 17, 1902.  The death record was filled out by an attendant, and her parents are given as Jane Wellwood and William Graham, neither of which agrees completely with her marriage record.  Her spouse is given as Henry Sharp, however, and the mother listed does somewhat agree with that given on her marriage record.  No idea where the William Graham came from, though.  Henry died the following year on June 27, 1903 in the Glasgow City Poorhouse.  Their daughter Jeannie signed his death record.  This may have been their daughter Margaret, or perhaps a niece instead of a daughter as noted, as I can find no record of a daughter Jeannie.  I did locate Margaret’s birth in Camlachie, Glasgow on Oct. 30, 1882, but have not yet verified the birth records of the other children.   In 1901, Henry is boarding at a home for men, Charlotte is in service as a milkmaid, and Elizabeth is boarding out while working.  Isabella is in the Barnhill Poorhouse.  James is in St. Giles, Cripplegate, London, England along with other young men between the ages of 16 and 34.  It appears to be some form of residence for young men working in local warehouses, possibly near the docks of London.  William is in the Royal Navy in the 1901 census, on board the EDINBURGH working as a stoker.  Charlotte married John Kyle McGregor in Calton, Glasgow on Sept. 28, 1906.  They had 5 children: Margaret Sharp McGregor was born in 1902 and at age 21 on Nov. 16, 1923 married John Leopold Smith in Camlachie – it is her marriage record that gives her father’s middle name, and clears up the error on his own marriage to Charlotte that gives his mother’s maiden name as Kerr instead of Kyle as it should be; James was born in Dennistoun on Dec. 24, 1904; Jeannie Sharp McGregor was born in Bridgeton on Apr. 25, 1910; John. Jr. was born about 1918 in Glasgow, and Thomas was born about 1924 in Glasgow.  In 1927, John Kyle McGregor emmigrated to Canada on board the DORIC out of Greenock arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Mar. 28 to join his son James in Toronto.  James had emmigrated to Canada at the age of 20, on board the LETITIA out of Glasgow and arriving in Quebec on May 3, 1925.  Charlotte, Jeannie, John, Jr., and Thomas followed on board the LETITIA out of Glasgow, arriving in Quebec on Nov. 19, 1927.  I have no record of them after they arrived in Canada.  Their daughter Margaret remained in Glasgow with her husband.  Isabella married Alexander Campbell in Blythswood, Glasgow – a widower 7 years her senior and a Private in the military forces – on July 12, 1917 – they had at least one daughter, as Isabella’s death record on Feb. 18, 1959 was signed by her son-in-law Robert Kirkwood.  Isabella’s sister Charlotte McGregor witnessed her marriage by declaration which took place just prior to the third battle of Ypres (Passchendaele).  Margaret married David Munro Napier on Feb. 25, 1899 in Dennistoun, Glasgow and died at the age of 32 on Sept. 23, 1915 in Dennistoun of pyaemia, a form of staph infection.  She and David had at least 2 children: William, born shortly after their marriage on Apr. 2, 1899 and Margaret, born on July 17, 1905, both in Dennistoun, Glasgow.  In the 1901 census Margaret, David, and their son William are living in Bridgeton, Glasgow.  Elizabeth married Thomas Milne on July 19, 1907 in Springburn, Glasgow and she died on Feb. 27, 1955 in Townhead, Glasgow.  Elizabeth and Thomas had a son, William, born Nov. 12, 1909 in Calton.  Thomas served in the Labor Corps during WWI and was discharged in Sept. 1919 due to deafness, 2 months after asking for a reduction in his rank from a corporal to a private – no idea why.  William Sharp remained in the Royal Navy, and according to his service record (which I downloaded from the UK National Archives – see link, above) was released from service on July 26, 1920 due to heart disease.  There is a notation for the year 1949 – perhaps that is the year he died.  William’s service record also gives his date of birth as Aug. 10, 1880.  I could find no further records for James.

Second: There is a marriage for Margaret Wellwood age 26 to Thomas Thew age 25 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England on August 1, 1885 which was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog.  This Margaret died in Wandsworth in 1930.  She and Thomas had 3 children: Alan Wellwood Thew, age 1 in the 1891 census, 11 in 1901, and 21 in 1911; Doris M. Thew, age 7 in 1901 and 17 in the 1911 census; and Leslie Ernest Thew, born Oct 8, 1899 (from baptismal record), baptised Nov. 12, 1899 in Battersea, London, and listed as age 1 in the 1901 census and 11 in 1911.  Alan married Jesse E. Jones in 1924 in Wandsworth.  Doris married Arthur H. Cole in 1919 in Wandsworth.  And Leslie married twice – first to Winifred E. Lowe in 1927 in Wandsworth, and second to Annie Henderson in Battersea, London in 1937.  Thomas Thew, Margaret’s husband, died in Battersea in 1936 and Margaret died on March 22, 1930 in Wandsworth.  I have no further information on descendants in this line.

The reason this Margaret is of interest is because her marriage to Thomas Thew lists her father’s name as John, whose occupation is listed as Commision agent – as our John Wellwood married to Margaret Grant Thompson’s occupation was listed as in the 1881 Scotland census.  One witness to the marriage is Jeannie Forrest – which is most likely her sister Jane who married John Forrest in 1877 and was living in Battersea for the 1891 census. And that same census lists Margaret Thew’s place of birth as Scotland.  I can find no other John Wellwood with a daughter Margaret born in the period from 1855-1860 in Scotland other than the one married to Margaret Grant Thompson, but clearly only one of these two daughter Margarets can belong to John and Margaret Wellwood.  It seems certain that Margaret Thew born in 1859 is the correct daughter.  There is still the matter of Margaret (Wellwood) Sharp born in 1856,however, who is also clearly a Wellwood descendant.  With nothing more to go on than a marriage record in Kirkintilloch that lists John Wellwood as her father (but Jane Madole as her mother) and witnessed by possibly a 14-yr-old Samuel Rowley and a death record in Dennistoun that lists Jane Wellwood as her mother (but William Graham as her father) and the informant was an attendant at the insane assylum where she then resided, I have no real clue as to where she fits in the line or even if she belongs in it at all.  I can also find no fit for her in the Wellwood line that resides in Fife, Scotland.  Perhaps some day a descendant will contact me who knows exactly where Margaret (Wellwood) Sharp fits in the line…

As well as writing about John, Jr’s descendants in the next post, I’m going to put off writing about John and Margaret’s youngest son Samuel Moses Wellwood and his descendants until the post after that.  You’ll understand why in a week or so…  😉

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Matthew Wellwood’s line

Posted on January 6, 2011 by archivecookie

At this point, I’m going to skip over to Matthew Wellwood, even though I haven’t yet proved that he is a child of Moses and Jane.  Matthew makes his first appearance in Scotland on New Year’s Day in 1838, when he married his first wife Catherine Glen in Glasgow.  As near as I can figure it, he was 20 years old at the time of his marriage.  By the time of the 1841 census, they have 2 children: Alexander M., born Jan. 23, 1869, and Jane, born Oct. 12, 1840, both in Glasgow.  Their third child Matthew, Jr., was born on Jan 16, 1842 in Glasgow.  Just a note – Matthew, Jr.’s birth record was witnessed by Samuel Wellwood and Hugh Glen.  The interactions between Matthew, Sr.’s family and the known children of Moses and Jane are the primary reason I believe Matthew to also have been a child of Moses and Jane. Matthew and Catherine’s last child, Hugh, was born on Sept. 27, 1844, also in Glasgow.  Little Jane may have died prior to the 1851 census, as she is not found definitively after that time.  Hugh is in the 1851 census, but does not appear after this date.  As death records were kept after Jan. 1, 1855 when it became mandatory, I assume little Hugh died between the time of the 1851 census and late 1854.  Matthew’s wife Catherine did not survive for the 1851 census, and must have died between the time little Hugh was born and Matthew’s marriage to Jane Gribbons, which took place on Dec. 15, 1850.  Matthew and Jane had a daughter Elizabeth who was born about 1852 or 1853, as she was 8 years old in the 1861 census.  Matthew and his second wife Jane, you will recall from an earlier post, witnessed the marriage of Ellen (Elizabeth) Wellwood to Francis Dickson in 1855.

Matthew, Jane, and their daughter Elizabeth emigrated to the United States at some point between the 1861 Scotland census and the 1870 US census.  They actually appear twice in the 1870 census, which I only just discovered this week!  In June 1870, they are living in Philadelphia, but ancestry.com has Matthew mis-transcribed as Martha.  Matthew is 53, Jane is 49, and Elizabeth is 17, which is all correct.  Then in November, they are once more enumerated – this time the names are correct but the ages have been rounded off (Matthew is 50, Jane is also 50, and Elizabeth is 20).  It is this last census record that I had earlier found.  By the 1880 census, Elizabeth is no longer living at home.  I assume she married, but have no proof to whom or when.  It’s possible she may have been the Elizabeth married to James Dillet in Philadelphia in about 1871, as the 1880 census information on her fits with Elizabeth Wellwood’s, and is the only Elizabeth in Philadelphia who is married and does fit, though that by no means is definitive.  There is an Elizabeth Wellwood who married James Graham in Philadelphia in 1897, but I don’t know if this is the same Elizabeth born to Matthew and Jane, as she would have been about 45 by that time – rather old for a first marriage in those days.  Gopsill’s Philadelphia City Directory, for 1887 lists Matthew as still residing at 2339 Meredith in Philadelphia (according to ancestry.com), but in the 1891 copy of the same directory Jane is listed as widowed.  Matthew must then have died in Philadelphia between 1887 and 1991.  I have checked all the transcriptions listed in Find-A-Grave for Philadelphia but have not found him or Jane, who must have died in Philadelphia between 1891 and the 1900 census, as she does not appear in it.  The record of Matthew’s death – if one can be found – may be the only proof of his being a child of Moses Wellwood and his wife Jane McDowall. (Edit: I have since discovered the dates of death for Jane and Matthew – both died in Philadelphia, he on 25 June 1888 and she on 28 Sept 1891.  He was 72 years old at the time of his death, she was 71.  She is – and I assume he also is – buried at Fernwood cemetery.  I have not yet checked to see if the names of his parents are listed on the original death record).

Matthew’s surviving children by his first wife did not enter the U.S. when he did, but his son Matthew, Jr. did eventually immigrate with his family.  Matthew, Jr. married Margaret McMillan in Bridgeton, Glasgow on Sept. 16, 1870 – after his parents had arrived in Philadelphia.  They proceeded to have 10 children in Scotland before moving to the U.S. where their 11th and last child was born.  Their first child, Mary, was born in Bridgeton on July 21, 1871 but died there not quite ten years later on Feb. 4, 1881.  Matthew III came next, born in Bridgeton on May 8, 1873.  Alexander was born next, on May 23, 1875 in Dennistoun.  The fourth child was John E. Wellwood, born on Nov. 8, 1876 in Camlachie.  James was the next child born, on July 21, 1878 in Dennistoun.  Little James died there less than three months later on Oct. 13, 1878.  James McMillan Wellwood was born on Aug. 18, 1879 in Dennistoun, but also died – on Jan. 15, 1882 in Bridgeton.  A daughter, Margaret McMillan Wellwood (named for her mother) was the seventh child.  She was born in Bridgeton on April 9, 1881.  Next came a set of twins – James (surely, persistence will eventually pay off!) and Samuel.  They were born in Camlachie on Aug. 22, 1883, but unfortunately both infants died the following day.  Elizabeth Grant Wellwood was the 10th child, born on Aug. 20, 1884.  Little Elizabeth died at exactly 5 months of age, on Jan. 20, 1885 in Camlachie where she was born.  Was the name of this last child another tie to the other Wellwood siblings?  Elizabeth Grant was the maiden name of Samuel Wellwood’s third wife, who at that time was his widow.

Matthew, Jr. first entered the U.S. through Boston on June 7, 1886 on board the CANADIAN out of Glasgow.  His wife and their four surviving children (Matthew III, Alex, John, and Maggie) entered through New York on Sept. 14, 1886 on the CIRCASSIA out of Glasgow.  They settled in Rhode Island and their daughter Jane was born in Providence on June 9, 1889.  Matthew, Jr. became a U.S. citizen, although his date of birth is given as Feb 2, 1842 instead of Jan. 16, 1842 as on his birth record.  In the 1900 census, his birth is recorded as being in March 1845!  Please remember in your own searches to look for the definitive record and use it if possible (birth record for birth date, etc.), as opposed to using the first date you come across in some other document.  Yes, they should all agree – no, they all too often don’t.  Matthew, Jr.’s wife Margaret died on Aug. 21, 1916 and was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery.  Matthew, Jr. was buried with her upon his death in 1925 – I do not have the exact day.  Of Matthew, Jr. and Margaret’s 5 surviving children, Mathew III died on March 1, 1905 at the age of 31 in Providence, Rhode Island having never married.  Alexander died at the age of 24 on Feb. 2, 1909 in Providence also having never married.  In the 1900 census, Alex was 16 years old and an inmate at the state mental hospital in Cranston.  John married on Nov. 25, 1896 to Margaret T. Provan in Swansea, Ma., and they had four children: an unnamed son who was born on May 30, 1897 in Providence and died on June 28, 1897; Albert James, born on Mar. 8, 1899 in R.I.; Gordon C., born on Mar. 5, 1903 in R.I.; and Leroy C., born in Providence on Apr. 24, 1907.  Albert was listed in the 1930 census as divorced – he registered for the WWI draft and listed his father as the person to notify in the event it was needed, and he was single in the 1920 census.  In 1931, Albert took a one-week cruise to Honduras, and in 1933, 1934, and 1935 Albert can be found as a member of the crew on vessels sailing into Havana, Cuba and Bermuda. He must have fallen in love with the sea on the voyage to the Panama Canal area that he took with his family in 1912.  In 1941, Albert can be found returning from a cruise to Bermuda, and his status at that time is married, though there appears to be no wife present on the ship.  I can find no other information on Albert or who he married.  Perhaps when the 1940 census is released I’ll find some answers.  Albert’s brother Gordon appears to have remained in R.I. until his death in March, 1986.  I have no information on any spouse or children for Gordon.  Leroy appears to have remained in the Providence area.  He later married.  Leroy died in January 1988.  Margaret McMillan Wellwood married on June 25, 1900 in Taunton, Ma. to Arthur Joseph Roberts.  They went on to have 2 daughters: Mildred, born Dec. 12, 1901 in Providence and Helen, born in Providence on April 12, 1903.  I can find no record of them after Helen’s birth.  Jane Wellwood married Frederick Gay Renfree in Providence, R.I. on Aug 7, 1915.  They had 2 sons: John M., born in 1916 and who died on July 8, 1930 in Providence, R.I. (in the 1930 census he is a resident at a treatment center for troubled youths); and Frederick Jovine, born July 13, 1918 in R.I.  Fred joined the Army, fought in Korea, and died on Feb. 13, 1980 in California.  He is buried in Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon.  I have no record of any spouse or children for him.  Jane’s husband Fred died at some time in 1920, as he appears in the census but in the 1920 Warwick city directory Jane is listed as his widow, and Jane died at some point after the 1930 census.

Matthew, Sr.’s first child Alexander M. Wellwood remained in Scotland.  He married Elizabeth Rowan in Bridgeton, Glasgow on June 10, 1862.  Alex and Elizabeth had 7 children.  Their first child, William, was born in the late summer of 1863.  His death on May 25, 1865 in Glasgow gives his age as 1 year 9 months, which would put his birth around August of 1863.  I have found no record of his birth, but assume it would have been in the Glasgow area.  Jane (known as Jeanie) Wellwood was their second child.  She was born in Glasgow on Oct. 5, 1864.  On June 21, 1895 she married David Bald in Neilston, Renfrew, a man 7 years her junior.  I can find no record of children born to them, and on the 1901 census they have no children living with them. I’ll skip over the third child for just a moment, and move on to Alex and Elizabeth’s fourth child, David.  David was born on Nov. 22, 1868 in Calton, Glasgow.  He died less than a year later on Sept. 30, 1869, also in Calton.  Child number 5 was Mary, who was born on July 10, 1870 in Bridgeton.  Mary never married, and lived at home until she died on Jan 6, 1919 in Gorbals.  Mary signed her father’s death certificate in 1909, and her sister Jeanie Bald signed hers in 1919.  Elizabeth came next, being born on Aug. 27, 1874 in Neilston, Renfrew, Scotland.  She also never married, and lived at home until her death on Apr. 19, 1918 in Gorbals.  Jeanie signed her death certificate as well.  The last child of Alex and Elizabeth was a male child who never had a name in the official records.  He was born on Feb. 27, 1876 in Neilston and died 5 days later on Mar. 3, 1876 also in Neilston.  I have no idea why he was never given a name in the official records.

Now I’ll come back to Alex and Elizabeth’s third child.  This was Alexander M. Wellwood, Jr. and he was born on Nov. 1, 1866 in Calton, Glasgow.  On June 20, 1893 he married Elizabeth Kenmure in Kelvin, Glasgow and they had at least 8 children.  This is the reason I’ve put off listing him until last – as he and his father have the same name, and both married Elizabeth’s, I felt it would be easier to tell which children went with which parents if I put the information in separate paragraphs, rather that refer to them as children of Alex and Elizabeth or Alex, Jr. and Elizabeth in the same paragraph – that sounded too much as if he’d married his mother!  😉

The first child of Alex, Jr. and Elizabeth was Sydney Kenmure Wellwood, who was born on May 8, 1894 in Gorbals.  Next born was Alexander Glen Wellwood, born on May 19, 1895 also in Gorbals.  These two oldest children emmigrated to Wellington, New Zealand on board the WAIMANA out of Southampton on Feb. 18, 1921 when they were 26 and 25 years old, respectively.  Sydney’s marriage to Jessie Smith Christie took place in 1925, according to the BMD site for New Zealand, which can be found at https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/home/.  Jessie died in 1937 at the age of 42.  Sydney died in 1959.  I have no personal knowledge of any children born, or any possible remarriage, due to the privacy laws of New Zealand which limit publically accessible information.  I came across a discussion group that included descendants of Alexander and Elizabeth (Rowan) Wellwood, but have not personally been in contact with them so have no definitive information on which children they are descended from, and so will continue to publish only my own research here.  Alexander Glen Wellwood died in 1955 in New Zealand.  I have no record of any marriage for him.

The third child of Alex, Jr. and Elizabeth was Isabel Wellwood.  She was born on April 19, 1896 in Gorbals.  After her birth, the family appears to have moved to the London, England area, as the next child, Charles Frederick, was born in Islington in the last quarter of 1898 (I have not yet sent for the certificate, so do not definitively have the actual date).  His brother David Bald Wellwood was also born in Islington, but in the September quarter of 1901.  At this point, the family moved back to Scotland, and the next child, Frances Anna Wellwood, was born in New Ardrossan, Ayrshire on July 15, 1903.  John Kenmure Wellwood was born next, in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, on July 20, 1907.  Their last child, Jeanie Glen Wellwood, was born on April 6, 1910 also in West Kilbride.  In 1922, a year after the two oldest children had emigrated to New Zealand, Alex, Jr. and his wife and remaining children also emigrated there.  They traveled out of Liverpool, and arrived at Wellington.  The name of the ship on which they travelled is unfortunately not written on the page of the passenger list that contains their names, nor was the date of their departure.  In order to obtain the name of the ship, I had to view the transcript, as well as having previously viewed the original image.  This told me the name of the ship was the DORSET and that she departed Liverpool on Jan. 28, 1922.  Let me take this opportunity to praise yet one more site, www.ancestorsonboard.com, which contains copies of the passenger lists for ships leaving England between 1890 and 1960.  It should be noted that Alex, Jr’s sister Jeanie Bald and her husband David also emigrated to New Zealand.  They departed on the IONIC out of Southampton to Wellington on April 19, 1923 at ages 58 and 51, respectively.  Jeanie Bald died in New Zealand in 1930, and her husband David died there also in 1942.

Of Alex, Jr., his wife Elizabeth, and their other children who moved to New Zealand, I know that Charles Frederick married Margaret Norris Christie in 1930, that David Bald Wellwood married Anne Matilda Lucy Stunt in 1929 and that they had a stillborn child in 1947, that Is(a)bel married John Campbell in 1928, and that Frances Anna married Harold William Chambers also in 1928.  I have no idea if it may have been a double wedding.  I have no marriage information for John Kenmure Wellwood.  Jeanie Glen Wellwood’s death record lists her married name as Parsons.  She died in 2000, but her birth is given as April 5, 1910 instead of April 6, 1910 as shown on her birth record.  Alex., Jr. died in 1936 at the age of 69.  His wife Elizabeth died in 1947 at the age of 81.  John Kenmure Wellwood died in 1978 – his date of birth as shown on the death record agrees with his birth record.  David Bald Wellwood died in 1986 – his date of birth on the death record is given as July 21, 1901.  Charles Frederick’s death record has his names reversed to Frederick Charles Wellwood.  He died in 1980, and his date of birth on the death record is given as November 20, 1898.  When I eventually send for and receive copies of David’s and Charles’ birth records, I can state with certainty what day each was born, but for now this is likely accurate.  Charles’ wife Margaret died in 1972 at the age of 67.  David’s wife Ann(e) died in 1991 and her birth is given as Jan. 30, 1901.  Isabel (Wellwood) Campbell died in 1965 at the age of 68.  From the information I have available, I can’t be certain which entry for the death of John Campbell applies to Isabel’s husband.  Harold William Chambers died in 1950 at the age of 47.  His wife Frances Anna (Wellwood) Chambers died in 1967 at the age of 64.  All of the above occurred in New Zealand.

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