Our March meeting was all about the letter Q. Members covered various topics including Quarter Sessions, Quakers, an ancestor named Queenie, queries and questions. My instant first choice was a place in my research and the the next was an old occupation.
Quetta My great uncle James White, born 1875 in Kent. died in 1903 in Quetta Balucistan. Quetta was a garison town in a region close to the border with Afghanistan which was under British control. He was
a bombadier in the 1st Mountain Battery of the Royal Garison Artillery.
a bombadier in the 1st Mountain Battery of the Royal Garison Artillery.
Quassilarius This is an old occupation for a merchant or pedlar. My great grandfather, Robert Jackson was born 1833 in Kilbarchan Renfrewshire. His family were hand loom weavers and he stayed in that field until the 1881 census when I found him in the 1881 census with his son as pedlars. They were in Campbletown, Argyleshire staying with a Catherine Crawford. Was this a relative as Robert's mother's maiden name was Crawford? He was still a pedlar in 1891 where he was staying in a Model Lodging House in Govan, Lanarkshire and again in 1901 but this time in Mathieson St, Govan together with his son. I showed a variety of different Scottish documents including Old Parish Registers and a Paternity Decree for Robert and his future wife Helen. This was about the son Robert having been born out of wedlock.
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