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Gail,
I'm sitting here on a cold scottish winter's night browsing through the message boards when I came across your posting.
The local family history centre has a website where they have posted quite a number of graveyard inscriptions from the North East of Scotland (mostly smaller rural ones). If you click on this link (http://www.abdnet.co.uk/mi-index/) it will take you to the page where there is a list of graveyards. If you click on 'Coldstone' which is a village nearby Ballater, then scroll down to ROBERTSON, Charles it brings up some details which I thought could link to your family.
The website doesn't give the full inscription details but if you think there could be a connection for you I'd be quite happy to go into the Family History Centre sometime this week and look up the full inscription for you.
Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with locally.
best regards
Susan
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I am looking for the family of Charles Robertson, who was born in 1833 and died in 1903. In 1901 he was living on Golf Road in Ballater with his wife, Ann Brown, raising his son William's four children after their mother, Elizabeth Johnston, died sometime around 1899. I was under the impression that both William and Elizabeth died prior to 1903; however, Charles' death certificate information was provided by his son, William Brown Robertson, so I know that William was still alive in 1903.
Charles' parents were Charles Robertson and Susan Milne, who married in 1827, and produced five children, Alexander Robertson, b. 1828. William Robertson, b. 1831, my Charles Robertson, b. 1833, Margaret Robertson (possibly known as Mary Ann), b. 1835, and James Robertson, b. 1838.
Charles Robertson and Ann Brown married in 1857. and had five children, Isabella Robertson, b. in 1860 in Old Machar, Elizabeth Robertson, b. in 1863 in Glenmuick, Helen Milne Robertson, b. in 1865 in Glenmuick, and Flora Rosina Robertson, b. in 1870 in Glenmuick.
Charles' grandson, also named Charles Robertson and born in 1891, apparently emigrated to either New Zealand or Australia and died there, but his body was said to have been brought back to Aberdeen. Charles' granddaughter, Ann Robertson, died of influenza in 1917. The second granddaughter, also named Flora Rosina Robertson, was my grandmother - she emigrated to the United States in 1924 and her immigration records indicate that her brother, William Robertson, was living in the Falkirk area at the time.
Other persons associated with this family were Isabella Robertson's husband, Duncan Ritchie, b. 1845 in Dunbarton, Elizabeth Robertson's husband, William MacLean, b. 1859 in Moray, Helen Milne Robertson's husband, Ingleby Robert Fernie Cowie, b. 1867 in Glenmuick, and John Mitchell, who married Flora Rosina Robertson.
I have been looking for this family for ten years and have yet to find any other researcher doing so. Scotland's People and the IGI have provided me with my information, but I am beginning to believe that this part of the family may have been extraterrestrial in origin and simply beamed themselves back up to the mother ship!!!!! If anyone has any information regarding these people I would be overjoyed to correspond with you, and would happily reimburse any costs incurred.
Thank you,
Gail on Long Island in NY
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