geboren um 1843
gestorben 31. Januar 1911 in Grindelwald, Schweiz
gestorben 31. Januar 1911 in Grindelwald, Schweiz
geboren um 1843* in New York, USA
gestorben am 31. Januar 1911 in Grindelwald, Schweiz
Grace Duncan war eine Tochter von
Caroline Franklyn
und
Alexander Duncan
Sie heiratete am 5. August 1871
Thomas Robertson (II)
und hatte mit ihm 5 Kinder; zweitjüngstes Kind und jüngste der drei Töchter war
Grace Robertson
, die Urgroßmutter von Robin und Katya Müller.
Die überlieferte Annahme, Grace Duncan sei in New York geboren, wurde durch neuere Nachforschungen von
John Humphreys
bestätigt. Er schreibt:
Weitere Kinder waren ein Sohn, Duncan, der mit 11 Monaten starb (Geburtsdatum unbekannt); Margaret Maud Isobel (geb.1875, verh. Robin Johnson); Anne Caroline (geb. 1877,starb unverh. zwischen den Kriegen); und John Seymour (geb.1882, heir. 1907 Constance Bettington).
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"She married Thomas Robertson in Melbourne on 15/8/1871. It was a Presbyterian wedding held at the Menzies Hotel. He was 47 years old, and a prosperous member of the squattocracy; she was about 27. According to a family legend she had been looking after the children of one of his brothers, which was how they met.
So Alexander and Caroline had evidently migrated to Australia, married, had two daughters, returned to England, had a third daughter and crossed the Atlantic; Grace was their fourth daughter; then they travelled the relatively modest distance to Pennsylvania, where their first son and fifth daughter were born. It is easy to imagine Caroline as typically pregnant, at sea and constantly looking round in case small children disappeared overboard."
"1600" is the "Value of real estate owned", presumably dollars.
The oblique stroke is in a column "Attended school within the year".
"Free" presumably means that the census excluded slaves.
32 FLinks: Grace Duncans Grabstein
in Grindelwald, Schweiz. Transkription:
".......
GRACE ROBERTSON
WIDOW OF
THOMAS ROBERTSON
OF TOGANMAIN
...
WHO DIED AT GRINDELWALD
JAN 31st 1911
AGED 68 YEARS"
Until recently I had not been able to trace Grace Duncan's parents. Births, marriages and deaths in New York were not recorded at the time. However I found her in Pennsylvania in the US 1850 Census (16 Sep 1850), then 6 years old. Her parents were Alexander Duncan (then aged 37) and Caroline Duncan née Franklyn (then aged 32):
