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SylviaInCanada

I thought you must 'know that' :-)

The image is VERY clear, good hand writing but if you were tired, it may have confused you

Midnight, UK time, is what in CA.....7ish ;-)

Gins ........

do you honestly and truly think I don't know that?

really!

I said that the writing on the image COULD be taken for Rachel, meaning at first glance.

......... and I do admit that I didn't look at the image at midnight your time.

That was neglectful of me ............. but I don't need an elementary lesson in reading censuses.

(below was Death, later that year)

Chris :)

Deaths Sep 1911 (>99%)
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Ruchet-Fairweather Ruby 0 Blean 2a 1219

SylviaInCanada

The transcription(s) from site to site can be correct/incorrect but the 'image' of the census is a 'scan' of the original

OK

I bow to Gins superior information

Although I must admit that the handwriting as showing on the ancestry site could be taken as Rachel.


I wonder if the Fairweathers had been there for some time, and naming the son "Ruchet" was a nod to friendship, or to the fact that the 2 mothers were pregnant at the same time?

Linkfield House was definitely a big house ....... 13 rooms, and 16 people living there (9 men, 7 women)

He's on Gloucester ER's from 1939 to 1971:


Ruchet R Swan
in the Gloucestershire, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1974

Name: Ruchet R Swan
Year: 1971
Country: England
County: Gloucestershire
Parliamentary Divison: West Gloucestershire

I'd checked the image and the following is correct:

On the 1911 census, there are two 'Ruby' girls, one an adult (24yr) and the other a daughter (under a mth)

Ruchet Ransome Swan is a boy born 1911, married three times and dies in 1979.

There is no Rachel on the 1911 census

Added: Here he is in 1939

Swan Household (1 Person)
35 Arthur Street , Gloucester C.B., Gloucestershire, England

Rucher (mistranscribed) R Swan 13 Mar 1911 Male Coach Finisher Married 146 1
3 more people who are officially closed

ArgyllGran

my earlier post didn't appear as clearly as I had hoped, although I didn't notice last night

Ruchet was a mis transcription!!!


FMP version as posted by Gins .........

William Augustus Swan Head Married Male Clerk 31 1880 Hamilton Bermuda
Rose Annie Swan Wife Married Female - 34 1877 St Georges Gordon Square London Middlesex
William Augustus Swan Son - Male - 9 1902 London Kennington
Stanley Howard Swan Son - Male - 7 1904 London Kennington
>>>>>>>> Ruchet Ransome Swan Son - Male - 0 1911 Isleworth Middlesex
Ruby Ruchet Fairweather Boarder Married Female - 24 1887 Ancroft Northumberland

Version as posted by ancestry ..........

>>>>> Rachel Ransome Swan Under 1 M <<<<<<<<
Ruby Rachel Fairweather 24
Ruby Rachel Fairweather 0
Reginald Rachel Fairweather Under 1 M


so it was a little girl called Rachel


BUT ancestry did get the Ruchet wrong for the Fairweathers :-D

Sylvia, I was intrigued by what connection Ruchet Ransome Swan had to the Ruchet-Fairweather family, too.

Haven't managed to work it out.

His mother wasn't a Ruchet:

Marriages Mar 1901 (>99%)
HILL Rose Annie Chelsea 1a 521
Swan William Augustus Chelsea 1a 521

They were an army family:

William A Swan
in the 1891 England Census
Name: William A Swan
Age: 11
Estimated birth year: abt 1880
Relation: Son
Father's name: William S Swan
Mother's name: Elizabeth Swan
Gender: Male
Where born: Bermuda
Civil Parish: Kensington
Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address: South Kensington Museum, RE Barracks
Registration district: Kensington
Sub registration district: Brompton
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 30
Folio: 119
Page Number: 15
Household Members:
Name Age
William S [actually A] Swan 44 - Company Sergeant Major, RE, born Chelsea
Elizabeth Swan 36 - born Barbados (British Subject)
William A Swan 11 - Bermuda
Percy Swan 9 - Gibraltar
Florence Swan 7 - Chatham, Kent
Arthur G Swan 5 - Brompton
Victoria Swan 3 - ditto
Lilian M Swan 11/12 - ditto


Presumably his father's birth:
Births Jun 1848 (>99%)
Swan William Augustus Frederick Bethnal Gn 2 24

William and Elizabeth maybe married abroad, perhaps in Bermuda.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=fairweather&id=I9235

(just to add, James Young Fairweather on above, from google)

Chris :)

Just posting the details of Henry Ruchet Fairweather' wife


1891 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Main Street, Tweedmouth, Berwick, Northumberland, England

Agnes Melville Head Widow Female 36 1855 Laundress Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
Robert Swanston Son Single Male 17 1874 Coal Miner Scotland
Janet Swanston Daughter Single Female 15 1876 Domestic Servant Cheswick, Northumberland, England
Mary Swanston Daughter - Female 13 1878 Scholar Ancroft, Northumberland, England

Robina Melville Daughter - Female 5 1886 - Ancroft, Northumberland, England

William Melville Son - Male 4 1887 - Berwick, Northumberland, England
Hugh Moran Boarder Single Male 20 1871 Tobacco Pipe Maker Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England


1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
4, Church Road, Tweedmouth, Berwick, Northumberland, England

John Gibson Head Married Male 37 1864 Coal Miner Hewer Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England
Agnes Gibson Wife Married Female 42 1859 - Tynemouth, Northumberland, England
William Melville Step Son Single Male 14 1887 - Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England
Agnes Simpson Step Grand Daughter - Female 4 1897 - Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England

Robina Melville Step Daughter Single Female 15 1886 School Teacher Ancroft, Northumberland, England


To check her marriage (1910c) to 'Fairweather' you would need to purchase credits from here:

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Google Reginald Ruchet Fairweather, and there are several mentions of him being made in The London Gazette ...... presumably promotions in rank

eg https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35005/page/6862/data.pdf

The undermentioned Squadron Leaders are transferred to the Technical Branch.
24th Apr. 1940.
.
Reginald Ruchet FAIRWEATHER (33054).


Also references to him being in the RAF prior to WW2

There is also a memorial to Gordon Melville Ruchet Fairweather in Royston in the grounds of Royston Church on Church Street, and is inscribed:

IN LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM THE VILLAGE OF ROYSTON WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
(NAMES)
1939 - 1945
(NAMES)

Gordon Melville Ruchet Fairweather (567309)
Royal Air Force
29 July 1942, aged 24
Son of Henry Ruchet Fairweather and Rubina Fairweather.
Alamein Memorial

??? Gordon Melville's birth

Births Jun 1918 (>99%)
Fairweather Gordon M H Melville Berwick 10b 895

I was intrigued by the Ruchet Ransome Swan as posted by Gins at 05:25, and wondered what the connection was ............

William Augustus Swan Head Married Male Clerk 31 1880 Hamilton Bermuda
Rose Annie Swan Wife Married Female - 34 1877 St Georges Gordon Square London Middlesex
William Augustus Swan Son - Male - 9 1902 London Kennington
Stanley Howard Swan Son - Male - 7 1904 London Kennington
>>>>>>>> Ruchet Ransome Swan Son - Male - 0 1911 Isleworth Middlesex
Ruby Ruchet Fairweather Boarder Married Female - 24 1887 Ancroft Northumberland >>>>> Rachel Ransome Swan Under 1 M <<<<<<<<
Ruby Rachel Fairweather 24
Ruby Rachel Fairweather 0
Reginald Rachel Fairweather Under 1 M


so ancestry is not the only site that has rotten transcriptions :-) :-D

This is to everyone who has replied, thanks a lot for all the info, I will sift thru it all soon, will be oversea's till the end of the month.
Craig

Augustine R Fairweather
in the 1881 Scotland Census
Name: Augustine R Fairweather
Age: 29
Estimated birth year: abt 1852
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's name : James Y Fairweather
Gender: Female
Where born: Frankfort Ontho Maine, Germany
Registration Number: 387
Registration district: Perth
Civil Parish: Perth East Church and Tibbermore
County: Perthshire
Address: Pitheavlis Bank
ED: 9
Household schedule number: 294
LINE: 16
Roll: cssct1881_109
Household Members:
Name Age
James Y Fairweather 32
Augustine R Fairweather 29
Esther Fairweather 8
Louise Fairweather 6
Rose Fairweather 3
James Fairweather 1
Jane McFarlane 16 - servant



Marie Augustine Ruchet Fairweather
in the Perth, Scotland Newspaper Index Cards, 1809-1990
Name: Marie Augustine Ruchet Fairweather
Publication Date: 28 Nov 1931
DEATH: 25/11/1931


A tree on Ancestry takes Marie Augustine's family back to her grandparents.

Marie Augustine's marriage:

J. Y. Fairweather
in the Scotland, Select Marriages, 1561-1910
Name: J. Y. Fairweather
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 24 Apr 1872
Marriage Place: Perth,Perth,Scotland
Spouse: M. A. Ruchet
FHL Film Number: 6035516


Augustine Fairweather
in the 1891 Scotland Census
Name: Augustine Fairweather
Age: 39
Estimated birth year: abt 1852
Relationship: Wife
Spouse's name : James Y Fairweather
Gender: Female
Where born: Maine, Frankforton (mistranscription - Mainz? Frankfurt?)
Registration Number: 387
Registration district: Perth
Civil Parish: Perth East Church
Town: Perth
County: Perthshire
Address: Pitheavlis Bank
ED: 9
Household schedule number: 120
LINE: 17
Roll: CSSCT1891_117
Household Members:
Name Age
James Y Fairweather 42
Augustine Fairweather 39
Esther Fairweather 18
Louise Fairweather 16
Rose Fairweather 13
James Fairweather 11
Francis Fairweather 9
Henry Fairweather 6
William Fairweather 4
Georgina Fairweather 5 Mos


Assuming Frankfurt is her birthplace, then this could be her birth;

Maria Auguste Ruchet
in the Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
Name: Maria Auguste Ruchet
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 3 Mai 1851 (3 May 1851)
Baptism Date: 11 Mai 1851 (11 May 1851)
Baptism Place: Evangelisch,Soedel,Oberhessen,Hesse-Darmstadt
Father: August Ruchet
Mother: Katharine Jost
FHL Film Number: 1269772

Reginald's father:

Dundee Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 13 September 1922

PERTH MAN'S DEATH IN ENGLAND
One of the most promising of Perth's young men, Mr Henry Rupert Fairweather M.A, B.Sc, F.Sc, Principal Municipal Technical School and Science Master ,Bishop Vassey, has died at Copthorpe Tudor Hill, Sutton Coldfield, eight mile from Birmingham.

Mr Fairweather who was the third son of Mr J Y Fairweather, accountant in the employment of Mssrs Condie & M'Kenzie solicitors, Perth, was the first winner of the Town Council's gold medal at Sharp's Institution, Perth, and later he graduated to St Andrews University. A man of outstanding ability, the news of his death came as a blow to his friends in the Fair City.

Thirty eight years of age, deceased is survived by a widow and two of a family.