Hello Brian, I have some Edinburgh WILSONs. Not sure if there is any link to yours though. Kenneth McCrae WILSON, son of John WILSON and Alison THOMSON. b. ca. 1853. Married 8 Mar 1872 to Helen Henderson STEEDMAN, at 411 Broughton St. Edinburgh. Their dau. Catherine WILSON, b. 20 Apr 1885 at 10 Barlston Place, Edinburgh, married 15 Jul 1910 at 67 Merchiston Pl. Edinburgh, to Donald McLEOD. regards, Ian Martin On 10 Nov, 2008, at 3:02 AM, sct-edinburgh-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:22:31 +0000 (GMT) > From: brian ware <lorconbew@yahoo.co.uk> > Subject: [SCT-EDINBURGH] Margaret WILSON > To: sct-edinburgh@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <194605.17402.qm@web25007.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hello listers, > > Any WILSONs out there, connected to a Margaret WILSON (known as > Maggie) b.c1874, Edinburgh. father - William WILSON (insurance > agent - according to marriage certificate.) > > 1900 - Margaret WILSON married Arthur WARE in Aston,Birmingham. > Arthur WARE died in 1930 in Restalrig, Edinburgh. > Margaret WARE (nee WILSON) died at 35 Dean Street.Leith in 1965. > > I have both marriage & death certs and a copy of the 1901 census. > marriage cert has only father William on it. death cert has father > William and mother Margaret - no surname. > > Margaret lived at various addresses in Edinburgh, > i.e., Niddrie - Portobello - Leith. She died in Dean St. Leith. > > Thanks in advance. > Regards Brian.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:03:15 -0500, you wrote: >Hello Brian, > >I have some Edinburgh WILSONs. Not sure if there is any link to >yours though. > >Kenneth McCrae WILSON, son of John WILSON and Alison THOMSON. b. ca. >1853. Married 8 Mar 1872 to Helen Henderson STEEDMAN, at 411 >Broughton St. Edinburgh. > >Their dau. Catherine WILSON, b. 20 Apr 1885 at 10 Barlston Place, >Edinburgh, married 15 Jul 1910 at 67 Merchiston Pl. Edinburgh, to >Donald McLEOD. > >regards, >Ian Martin Hi Ian, I suspect that we have been in contact in the past. Helen is a 3rd cousin twice removed to me. Your message gave me reason to look at the 1881 - 1901 census records where I found siblings for Catherine as shown below. In the 1901 census: Kenneth McCrae WILSON is on his own in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kenneth jnr is an inmate in a Home For Waifs And Strays in Washington, Co Durham Regards David ********************************************************** Descendants of Kenneth McCrae Wilson 1 Kenneth McCrae Wilson b: Abt. 1853 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1910 .. +Helen Henderson Steedman b: 13 July 1855 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland m: 8 March 1871 40 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1910 ...... 2 Alison Wilson b: Abt. 1875 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1901 ...... 2 Helen Henderson Wilson b: Abt. 1877 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1901 ...... 2 John Wilson b: Abt. 1879 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1901 ...... 2 Magdalene Wilson b: Abt. August 1880 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Aft. 1901 ...... 2 Euphemia Wilson b: Abt. 1884 Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Bet. 1891 - 1901 ...... 2 Catherine "Katie" Wilson b: 20 April 1885 9 Earlston Place, Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: 4 August 1965 Granby, QC, Canada .......... +Donald McLeod b: 12 November 1881 54 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland m: 15 July 1910 67 Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: 6 July 1932 RI Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland ...... 2 Kenneth Wilson b: Abt. 1889 Portobello, Edinburgh, MLN, Scotland d: Bet. 1891 - 1901