Person:Robert Sweeney (6)

Robert Sweeney was born on 22nd June 1873 at Barsalloch Farm in the parish of Mochrum, Wigtownshire, son of Janet Sweeney, formerly Milroy, and her husband Michael Sweeney, a farm labourer. Robert appears in the 1881 census living with his parents and younger siblings at Kirkinner, also in Wigtownshire. By 1891 Robert had left home and was working as a farm servant in the parish of Penninghame, which covered the town of Newton Stewart.

On 4th June 1897, Robert married Helen Oliver Muir at Corwar, a farm in the parish of Sorbie. At the time of their marriage Robert was working as a ploughman and lived in Penninghame. On their second wedding anniversary they had a daughter, Madge, in 1899. By this time they were living at 32 Phoenix Park Terrace in Glasgow and Robert was working as a police constable. Sadly Helen died in the same year that Madge was born, leaving Robert a widower with a young daughter to look after. By 1901, Madge was living with her maternal grandfather back in Sorbie, whilst Robert was still living at 32 Phoenix Park Terrace.

Robert has yet to be traced after 1901, but it can be deduced that he was still alive in 1911 from the answers his parents gave to the 1911 census.

1. ↑ Birth certificate, in General Register Office for Scotland. Civil Registration.

   1873 BIRTHS in the Parish of Mochrum in the County of Wigtown
   No.45
   Name: Robert Sweeney
   When and Where Born: 1873 June Twenty second 10h P.M., Barsalloch Farm, Parish of Mochrum
   Sex: M
   Father: Michael Sweeney, Farm Labourer
   Mother: Janet Sweeney M.S. Milroy
   Date and place of marriage: 1872 February 8th at Liverpool
   Informant: Michael Sweeney, Father
   Registered: 1873 June 30th at Mochrum

2. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   Registration Number 889; ED 6; Page 11, 3 Apr 1881.

   Address: Kirkland Cottage (50 Yards North of Village), Kirkinner, Wigtownshire
   Michael Sweeney, head, male, 32 [1848/9], Ag Lab, b. Ireland
   Janet Sweeney, wife, female, 32 [1848/9], Ag Lab's Wife, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Robert Sweeney, son, male, 7 [1873/4], Scholar, b. Mochrum
   Mary Sweeney, daughter, female, 5 [1875/6], Scholar, b. Mochrum
   William Sweeney, son, male, 3 [1877/8], b. Kirkinner

3. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   Registration Number 895; ED 8; Page 9, 5 Apr 1891.

   Address: Farm House, Penninghame, Wigtownshire
   Wm McKand, head, male, 54 [1836/7], Farmer, b. Whithorn, Wigtownshire
   Mary McKand, sister, female, 41 [1849/50], House Keeper, b. Kirkinner, Wigtownshire
   Robt Swenie, servant, male, 17 [1873/4], Farm Servant, b. Mochrum, Wigtownshire

4. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
   Registration Number: 644/8; ED 22; Page 13, 31 Mar 1901.

   Address: 32 Phoenix Park Terrace, Milton, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
   Robert Sweeney, boarder, male, 27 [1873/4], Police Constable, b. Marbum [sic], Wigtownshire
   [whole household not transcribed]