Robert Barclay
(Abt 1786-)
Mary Wilson
(Abt 1786-)
John Cowan of Tarbolton
(1794-1863)
Jean (Jane) Leggat
(1795-1877)
James Barclay of Tarbolton
(1823-1910)
Mary Criddle Cowan
(1824-1886)
Robert Barclay of Ayr
(1854-1928)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Margaret Mair

Robert Barclay of Ayr

  • Born: 12 Jan 1854, Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland 2
  • Married: 17 Jun 1880, Sorn Village, Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland 1
  • Died: 12 Nov 1928, 35 Hawkhill Ave., Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland 3

  Research Notes:

At the time of the 1881 Scotland Census Robert Barclay, aged 27, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, letter stamper, and wife Margaret, aged 25, born in Sorn, letter stamper's wife, were living at 32 Content St., St. Quivox Ayrshire. Present was brother James Barclay (15) of Tarbolton, telegraph messenger

At the time of the 1891 Scotland Census Robert Barclay, aged 37, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, letter stamper G.P.C., and wife Margaret, aged 35, born in Sorn, were living at 40 Content St., Ayr, Ayrshire. With them was daughter Bessie B. (7) of St. Quivox.

At the time of the 1901 Scotland Census Robert Barclay, aged 47, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, letter stamper, and wife Margaret M., aged 45, were living at 44 Content St., Ayr, Ayrshire. With them was daughter Elizabeth B. (17), pupil teacher.

At the time of the 1911 Scotland Census Robert Barclay, aged 57, born in Tarbolton Ayrshire, postman, and wife Margaret, aged 55, born in Sorn, were living at 35 Hawkhill Ave., Ayr, Ayrshire. Present was daughter Elizabeth (29) of St. Quivox, school teacher.

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Robert Barclay, postman (retired), married to Margaret Mair, son of James Barclay, silk weaver, deceased, and Mary Criddle Barclay M.S. Cowan, deceased, died aged 74 years as a result of cerebral apoplexy, Thos. Brown of 23 Hawkhill Avenue Ayr, intimate friend, the informant.

  Marriage Information:

Robert married Margaret MAIR, daughter of Alexander MAIR and Elizabeth BORLAND, on 17 Jun 1880 in Sorn Village, Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland 1. (Margaret MAIR was born on 30 Dec 1855 in Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

Robert Barclay, letter stamper, bachelor, age 26, of Ayr, son of James Barclay, silk weaver, and Mary Barclay M.S. Cowan, and
Margaret Mair, domestic servant, spinster, age 24, of Sorn, daughter of Alexander Mair, general labourer, and Elizabeth Mair M.S. Borland

Witnesses: Robert Montgomerie, Annie Mair

Sources


1 General Register Office of Scotland (GROS), Sorn Marriages, p. 7, no. 14.

2 International Genealogical Index, Batch # 7618316, sheet 54.

3 General Register Office of Scotland (GROS), Ayr Deaths, 1928, p. 165, no. 493.


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