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Our Readers Ask This is a self-help page for our readers. editor@scotslink.alphalink.com.au 22 April, 2005 I am a member of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society, and am writing to ask please if it is possible to make an appeal through the pages of your magazine: According to a poor relief application of 1 April 1862, James CUMMING or CUMMINGS, husband of Jessie GARDNER or CUMMING, left for Australia on 18 September 1858. The Liverpool Record Office confirms that the Ship "Mermaid" left Liverpool on 21 September 1858 bound for Melbourne.(The Liverpool Telegraph Shipping Gazette entry reads: "Mermaid 1233 Devey, HT Wilson & Co. Melbourne"). At date of application Jessie was living at 373 Great Eastern Road, Parkhead, Glasgow. James was the son of John, an engine keeper (later a foundry gatekeeper), and Jeanie CUMMING nee JAMIESON. The family hailed from Warnock/Kirkfieldbank, in Banffshire. John and Jeanie were living at 19 Bluevale Street, Glasgow in 1861, and at 18 East Millar Street in 1871. Jessie died in August 1863 aged 27 years, her death certificate detailing James as an iron moulder. By the time of their daughter Jessie’s death on 8 May 1874, aged 19, James is given as a brassmoulder (deceased). My interest in all of this is that Jessie senior gave birth, in March 1861, to a young son, William, illegitimately to Samuel CONNELLY or CONNOLLY, a joiner; Samuel was an elder brother of my Great-Great Grandfather William. Samuel disappears after William’s birth; and young William appears from census to have been raised as a “CUMMING”- but “disappears” after 1874, when he seems, as “Wm Cummings, Brother” to have signed his half-sister Jessie’s death certificate...as a 13 year old! I have been unable so far to find any record of James’s return to Scotland. Thank you in anticipation for any help which your readers are very kindly able to give me. Yours sincerely, Brian D Henderson, Dundrennan Road, Battlefield,
Glasgow UK G42 9SE
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