Thursday 17 September 2015

Rosemount, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire

First I must apologise for giving the wrong year for the marriage of Mary Holmes and William Thomson. Thanks to my brother, David Huntingford for pointing this out. Mary was the daughter of Peter Holmes, Farmer at Priestside Farm, Kilmacolm. William lived on the next farm, West Kilbride, where he worked for his uncle, Arthur Lang. They married in 1912 and sailed off to Canada to a new life together.
I found the following on Ancestry.com passenger lists;

29th March 1912 "Cassandra" Glasgow to New Brunswick, Canada

William Thomson 42, Farmer, Protestant
Mary Thomson 30, wife, Housewife

31st October 1916 "Pretorian" Montreal to Glasgow

Wm Thomson 46, Farmer
Mary Thomson 34
Nancy Thomson 4
Nellie Thomson 2
Wm Thomson 1



This is the house next door to theirs in Vancouver where a family called Hall lived. Nancie is sitting on the wall. Mrs Hall came to visit Mary some years later at Rosemount.

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