Person:William Scott (210)

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William Scott
b.14 Feb 1855 Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland
d.27 Jan 1940 Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Parents and Siblings
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m. 5 Nov 1848
  1. Sydney Scott1853 - 1908
  2. William Scott1855 - 1940
  3. Margaret Scott1857 - 1883
  4. Mary Ann Scott1859 - 1929
  5. James Robson Scott1861 -
  6. Charles Scott1863 -
  7. Elizabeth Scott1865 - 1890
  8. John Scott1868 -
  9. Robert Scott1870 - 1944
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  William Scott1855 - 1940
  • W.  Jane Robson1859 - 1926
m. 11 Mar 1891
  1. Mary Jane Scott1892 - 1960
  2. Elizabeth Scott1895 - 1970
  3. Hannah Scott1895 - 1975
  4. Margaret Scott1896 - 1960
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Facts and Events
Name William Scott
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Feb 1855 Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland
Census[2] 7 Apr 1861 Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland
Census[3] 2 Apr 1871 Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scotland
Census[4] 3 Apr 1881 Mid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
Marriage 11 Mar 1891 Coldstream, Berwickshire, ScotlandParish Church
to Jane Robson
Census[5] 5 Apr 1891 Oban, Argyll, ScotlandPorter's Lodge (Benvoulin)
Census[6] 31 Mar 1901 Morebattle, Roxburghshire, ScotlandOtterburn Lodge
Census[7] 2 Apr 1911 Morebattle, Roxburghshire, ScotlandOtterburn
Census[9] 19 Jun 1921 Fossoway, Kinross-shire, ScotlandRosebank, Blairingone
Death[10] 27 Jan 1940 Dollar, Clackmannanshire, Scotland2 Argyll Street
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Childhood

William Scott was born on 14th February 1855 in the gardener's house on the Ladykirk House estate in Berwickshire, Scotland. He was the son of Mary Scott, formerly Robson, and her husband Alexander Scott, who was the master gardener at Ladykirk House. William was the couple's fourth child, but two of their previous children had already died before William was born. He had a surviving elder sister named Sydney. A further seven children would follow, with William eventually being the second of nine surviving children, and the eldest son. His entire childhood appears to have been spent living on the Ladykirk House estate, which stands beside the River Tweed looking across the river to England on the opposite bank.

William with Jane and the children, late 1890s.
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William with Jane and the children, late 1890s.
When William was a child his maternal grandparents, James Robson and Sydney Brown, were still alive. They lived in the town of Kelso, about fourteen miles west of Ladykirk along the Tweed valley. James Robson died in 1879, when William was 24, and Sydney Brown died in 1882, when William was 27.
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Adulthood

By this time, William had left home and as pursuing his own career as a gardener. In 1881, he was working as a journeyman gardener at Calder House in Midlothian. By 1891 he was working in Oban, on the north-west coast of Scotland, yet clearly retained connections with the south-east of the country, as he married at Coldstream, in Berwickshire but right on the English border. His bride, Jane Robson, was from Ford, just over the border into England. They married at Coldstream on 11th March 1891, when he was 36 and she was 31.

The couple travelled around, following wherever William found work. During the 1890s they lived at Oban, where their daughter Mary Jane was born in 1892, then Kelso, Roxburghshire, where they had twins, Elizabeth and Hannah in 1895, before settling at Morebattle in Roxburghshire by 1896, when their daughter Margaret was born. At Morebattle they lived at Otterburn Lodge, part of the Otterburn estate.
The family outside their home at Morebattle, Otterburn Lodge.
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The family outside their home at Morebattle, Otterburn Lodge.

Meanwhile, William's father retired from Ladykirk House, and by 1891 William's parents were living in the village of Norham, just across the border from Ladykirk into England. Alexander died there in 1893, after which William's mother, Mary, went to live in Kelso with William's brother Charles. Mary died in Kelso in 1899.

William and Jane and their family stayed in Morebattle from at least 1896 until after 1915, working for the estate's owner, Thomas Smith Pearson. Jane's widowed mother (also Jane) came to live with the family and died at Otterburn Lodge in 1902. In the 1911 census William and Jane reported that they had had six children, but only four were still living. The identity of the two children who had died has yet to be established.

Sometime between 1915 and 1921, the family moved again to Blairingone in Kinross-shire, where they lived at a house called Rosebank. They later moved to the nearby small town of Dollar in Clackmannanshire, where they lived at Myrtle Cottage, 2 Argyll Street. William lived to see three granddaughters; his daughters Mary, Hannah and Margaret had one daughter each between 1922 and 1926.

Jane died at Myrtle Cottage in 1926, aged 66. William outlived her by fourteen years and died on 27th January 1940, at home at Myrtle Cottage, aged 84.

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

    1855 BIRTHS in the Parish of Ladykirk in the County of Berwickshire
    No.1
    Name: William Scott
    Informant present at the birth
    Sex: Male
    When born: 14 Feb 1855, 3:30PM
    Where born: Gardeners House of Ladykirk House, Berwickshire
    Father: Alexander Scott, Gardener, 35 years, b. Fowlis Wester, Perthshire
    Mother: Mary Scott, maiden name Robson, 30 years, b. Kelso, her 4th child
    Marriage: 1847, Norham
    Previous children: 1 girl living, 1 boy and 1 girl deceased
    Informant: Alexander Scott, father

  2. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1861 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    746/00 001/00 024, 7 Apr 1861.

    Address: Ladykirk Gardens, Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    6 rooms with one or more windows
    1 child in this household attending school
    Alexander Scott, head, married, male, 41 [1819/20], Master gardener, b. Fowlis Wester, Perthshire
    Mary Scott, wife, married, female, 34 [1826/7], Gardener's wife, b. Kelso, Roxburghshire
    Sidney Scott, daughter, female, 8 [1852/3], Scholar, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    William Scott, son, male, 6 [1854/5], Gardener's son, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Margaret Scott, daughter, female, 4 [1856/7], Gardener's dau[ghte]r, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Mary Ann Scott, daughter, female, 2 [1858/9], Gardeners' dau[ghte]r, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    James R. Scott, son, male, 1m [1861], Gardener's son, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Margaret Robson, sister in law, unmarried, female, 25 [1835/6], Dressmaker, b. Kelso, Roxburghshire

  3. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1871 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    746/00 001/00 005, 2 Apr 1871.

    Address: Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    3 children in household in education
    6 rooms with one or more windows
    Alexander Scott, head, married, male, 51 [1819/20], Master gardener, b. Fowlis Wester, Perthshire
    Mary Scott, wife, married, female, 44 [1826/7], Gardeners wife, b. Kelso, Roxburghshire
    William Scott, son, unmarried, male, 16 [1854/5], Apprentice gardener, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Margaret Scott, daughter, unmarried, female, 14 [1856/7], Gardeners daughter, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Maryan Scott, daughter, unmarried, female, 12 [1858/9], Scholar, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    James Scott, son, unmarried, male, 10 [1860/1], Scholar, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Charles Scott, son, unmarried, male, 8 [1862/3], Scholar, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Elisabeth Scott, daughter, unmarried, female, 5 [1865/6], Gardeners dau[ghter], b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    John Scott, son, unmarried, male, 4 [1866/7], Gardeners son, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Robert Scott, son, unmarried, male, 11m [1870], Gardeners son, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire

  4. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1881 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    694/00 005/00 029, 3 Apr 1881.

    Address: Calder House Offices, Midcalder, Midlothian
    1 room with windows
    Peter Stewart, head, unmarried, male, 23 [1857/8], Journeyman gardener, b. Humbie, Haddingtonshire
    William Scott, Broth Tradesman [sic], unmarried, male, 24 [1856/7], Journeyman gardener, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire

  5. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1891 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    523/00 002/00 020, 5 Apr 1891.

    Address: Porter's Lodge (Benvoulin), Oban, Kilmore & Kilbride, Argyll
    2 rooms with windows
    William Scott, head, married, male, 35 [1855/6], Gardener domestic serv[ant], employed, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Jane Scott, wife, married, female, 32 [1858/9], b. England

  6. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1901 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    801/00 002/00 003, 31 Mar 1901.

    Address: Otterburn Lodge, Morebattle, Roxburghshire
    2 rooms with windows
    William Scott, head, married, male, 46 [1854/5], Gardener (domestic), worker, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Jane Scott, wife, married, female, 48 [1852/3], b. England
    Mary J. Scott, daughter, female, 9 [1891/2], Scholar, b. Oban, Argyleshire
    Elisabeth Scott, daughter, female, 6 [1894/5], b. Kelso, Roxburghshire
    Hannah Scott, daughter, female, 6 [1894/5], b. Kelso, Roxburghshire
    Margaret Scott, daughter, female, 4 [1896/7], b. Morebattle, Roxburghshire

  7. ↑ General Register Office for Scotland. 1911 Scotland Census. (Edinburgh)
    801/00 002/00 005, 2 Apr 1911.

    Address: Otterburn, Morebattle, Roxburghshire
    2 rooms with windows
    William Scott, head, male, 56 [1854/5], married, Gardener (domestic), worker, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire
    Jane Scott, wife, female, 52 [1858/9], married 20 years, 6 children, 4 still living, b. England
    Margaret Scott, daughter, female, 14 [1896/7], b. Morebattle, Roxburghshire

  8.   1915 Valuation Rolls.

    Parish of Morebattle, County of Roxburgh
    No. 149
    House (Lodge), Otterburn
    Proprietor: Thomas Smith Pearson of Otterburn, Roxburgh
    Inhabitant Occupier not rated: William Scott, gardener
    Annual value of dwelling house: £4 0s 0d

  9. ↑ Scotland. 1921 Scotland Census
    461/1/8, 19 Jun 1921.

    Parish: Fossoway
    Address: Rosebank, Blairingone
    Rooms: 3
    William Scott, head, 63 years 4 months [1858], male, married, b. Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Gardener - Private
    Jane Scott, wife, 62 years 1 month [1859], female, married, b. Ford, Northumberland, H[ousehold] D[uties]
    Elizabeth Scott, daughter, 26 years 5 months [1894/5], female, single, b. Kelso, Roxburghshire, Domestic Servant - Private

  10. ↑ Death certificate, in General Register Office for Scotland. Civil Registration.

    1940 DEATHS in the District of Dollar in the County of Clackmannan
    No.6
    William Scott, gardener (retired), widower of Jane Robson
    27 Jan 1940, 7h10m PM, 2 Argyll Street, Dollar
    Male
    84 years
    Father: Alexander Scott, gardener (deceased)
    Mother: Mary Scott, MS Robson (deceased)
    Cause: Arterio-sclerosis myocarditis
    Informant: Elizabeth Scott, daughter, present
    Registered: 29 Jan 1940

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