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I have trawled Ancestry to locate this family without success.
Could someone please check and see if it exists on FMP although I accept that they may not have been enumerated at all.
Family should be found in Aberdeen, potentially with additional children.

Alexander Robertson b 1856 Keith, Banffshire ( Gardener)
Jane Robertson (wife) b 1859 Killearnan, Ross & Cromarty ( 1881 census states she was born in Aberdeen)
Margaret Morrison Robertson b 1882 Aberdeen
William Smith Robertson b 1884 Aberdeen.

Jane Robertson, wife/mother died in Aberdeen in 1895 so they should be there... somewhere?
I cannot find any of this family after the 1881 census in Aberdeen

Next sighting:
Margaret M Robertson b 1882 married in London in 1908 ( I have all further info on her)

Thankies
Anne

1881 posting just for info

Name: Alexander Robertson
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1857
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Jane Robertson
Gender: Male
Where born: Keith, Banffshire
Registration Number: 168/1
Registration district: St Nicholas
Civil Parish: Aberdeen St Nicholas
County: Aberdeenshire
Address: 10 Innes Street
Occupation: Gardener (Jobbing)
ED: 58
Household schedule number: 187
LINE: 8
Roll: cssct1881_51
Household Members:
Name Age
Alexander Robertson 24
Jane Robertson 22


I keep looking at Alex and Jane in 1891 but he is a crofter and has a son William but no daughter called Margaret (Maggie)

In case it is relevant to the search she is shown as a domestic servant

Name: Margaret Morrison Robertson
Estimated birth year: abt 1883
Age: 25
Spouse: William Hawkes - naval stoker
Spouse Age: 37
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 19 Apr 1908
Parish: Holy Trinity, Dalston
Borough: Hackney
Father Name: Alexander Robertson
Spouse Father: Robert Hawkes
Register Type: Parish Register


Father, Alexander, is shown as a mason !!

1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Prospecthill Cottage, Banchory Devenick, Cults, Kincardineshire, Scotland

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Alex Robertson Head Married Male 33 1858 Gardener Macduff, Banffshire, Scotland Transcription
Jane Robertson Wife Married Female 30 1861 - Ross & Cromarty, Scotland Transcription
Maggie Robertson Daughter Unmarried Female 8 1883 Scholar Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
William Robertson Son Unmarried Male 6 1885 Scholar Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Alex Robertson Son Unmarried Male 4 1887 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Ann Robertson Daughter Unmarried Female 0 1891 - Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription

Brilliant find Jacqueline

Thankies for your help Glitterbaby

I have found the family at 1901
Alexander remarried and is indeed a mason's labourer which is consistent with the 1908 marriage of daughter Margaret.

All children born up up until 1894 were born his 1st marriage
Margaret.... is not in the household!

Name: Alexander Robertson
Age: 45
Estimated birth year: abt 1856
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Isabella Robertson
Gender: Male
Where born: Keith, Banffshire
Registration Number: 266/1
Registration district: Nigg Landward
Civil Parish: Nigg
County: Kincardineshire
Address: Old Inn B Of Dee
Occupation: Mason's Labourer
ED: 1
Household schedule number: 20
LINE: 14
Roll: CSSCT1901_84
Household Members:
Name Age
Alexander Robertson 45
Isabella Robertson 36
William Robertson 16
Alexander Robertson 14
Ann Robertson 11.... (Birth record obtained and confirms her parentage)
Mary Robertson 8
James Robertson 7
Lizzie Robertson 4
Bell A Shepherd 12

father re-married

1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Old Inn B of Dee, Nigg, Kincardineshire, Scotland


First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Alexander Robertson Head Married Male 45 1856 Mason's Labourer Keith, Banffshire, Scotland Transcription
Isabella Robertson Wife Married Female 36 1865 - Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
William Robertson Son - Male 16 1885 Message Boy Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Alexander Robertson Son - Male 14 1887 Basket Maker Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Ann Robertson Daughter - Female 11 1890 Scholar Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Mary Robertson Daughter - Female 8 1893 Scholar Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
James Robertson Son - Male 7 1894 Scholar Aberdeenshire, Scotland Transcription
Lizzie Robertson Daughter - Female 4 1897 - Nigg, Kincardineshire, Scotland Transcription
Bella Shepherd Step Daughter - Female 12 1889 Scholar Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Thank you for the kind words, Glitter

Thank You Jacqueline.
A full 2 weeks of searching but you found them.

Case Closed
Anne

Maggie could have been in England by 1901

1901 is Margaret in Kensington as a servant

Thanks to Glitter and Jacqueline,

Alexander's 2nd wife died in Aberdeen in 1914 when he was still living
The 1911 census is proving just as elusive as the 1891 ( which is not on Ancestry).
They moved between Aberdeen and Kincardine a bit too often and there's no corresponding births on SP for some of those children either?

I will be visiting the GRO later this week to see what's what!

Thanks again <3 <3 <3 <3

The Burgh of Aberdeen straddles the county border, i.e., the R Dee. Most of Aberdeen is in Aberdeenshire, but the burgh also includes the neighbourhood of Torry, S of the Dee in Nigg parish (in Kincardineshire).

The county border straddling UK city with the most even split is probably Belfast, split between Down & Antrim.

Thanks mgnv
I have some knowledge of the Aberdeenshire area and I did know that Nigg and Torry are shown as Kincardine.
Most of my families ( Smith) who lived in Aberdeen came from Banffshire and none of them lived on the Kincardine side of the city... apart from this one.

Those who emigrated to OZ and NZ in the 1890's were easier to locate than this single family! LOL