AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
AITKEN to WHAITE - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth ROBB
Birth Dateca 1824
Birth PlaceBothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Memofrom 1951 census
Death Datebef 1874 Age: 50
FatherFleming ROBB (1798-)
MotherJean BORROWMAN (ca1800-)
Spouses
Birth Dateca 1822
Birth PlaceFalkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Memofrom 1851 census
Death Datebef 1874 Age: 52
OccupationJoiner, railway servant
Marr Date28 Nov 18463030
Marr PlaceMid Calder, Midlothian, Scotland
Marr MemoAlso married the next day in Bothwell, Lanarkshire. James resided in Bothwell Parish & Elizabeth in Mid Calder
Reside Date30 Mar 18513031
Reside PlaceBothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland
MemoJames Watt, age 29, a joiner Journeyman on the railways, lived with his wife Elizabeth, 27 and daughter Margaret, age 3 in Edin Road, Muirmadkin. Visting them was Janet Russel, age 56, a farmer’s wife. James and Elizabeth other daughter, Janet, age 1, was staying at her “grand parents” at New Dunyvan, Old Monkland some 8km away.

It is probable that Janet Russel (Watt) (age 56) is in fact Elizabeth’s mother and that she was married to John Robb, why James and Elizabeth’s children stayed with Fleming and Jean Robb and were described as their grand-children is hard to explain, but the Robb connection probably means John & Fleming Robb were cousins or even brothers although no John Robb can be found as a child of Fleming’s parents.
ChildrenJanet Russel (ca1850-1923)
 Elizabeth (ca1853-)
Notes for Elizabeth ROBB
Can’t find a birth of Elizabeth with Fleming Robb as father, it also highly likely that even if Fleming was her father, her mother was not Jean Borrowman, although Fleming was given as grand father of James & Elizabeth’s daughter Janet Russel Watt.

The most likely fit for Elizabeth is 10/11/1825 ROBB, ELIZABETH
parents JOHN ROBB/AGNES BRYSON FR260 F
ST CUTHBERT'S EDINBURGH CITY/MIDLOTHIAN GROS 685/002 0330 0494

or considering Janet’s middle name of Russel the following is a strong possibility

09/09/1816 ROBB ELIZABETH parents JOHN ROBB/JANE RUSSEL F
NEW SPYNIE OR SPYNIE /MORAY GROS 136/ 0010 0421
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