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Not sure if this is the other record you mentioned - seems to be the same person:

David C Hastie
in the U.S., Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944
Name: David C Hastie
Age: 15
Birth Year: abt 1912
Arrival Year: 1927
Arrival Country: USA

There's no further info - it's just an alphabetical list of names.

David Hastie
in the UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960

Name: David Hastie
Gender: Male
Age: 15
Birth Date: abt 1912
Departure Date: 5 Mar 1927
Port of Departure: Greenock, Scotland
Destination Port: St John, Canada
Ship Name: Montnairn
Shipping line: Canadian Pacific Railway
Official Number: 144402
Master: Captain J Turnbull


Last UK address: 8 Pattison Street, Paisley
Occupation: farmworker.

Thanks AG- so where did he go from there?

OK, got fed up- used some credits:

Birth:
Precilia Hastie or Evans
Born 7th January 1909 at Burnside Place, Elderslie
Mother: Sarah Ann Evans, wife of Samuel Hastie, carter, who she declares is not the father of the child, she not having had intercourse with him for the past 3 years.
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So that confirms the Priscilla that married William Gibson in 1938 is correct.

Her death
First name(s) PRISCILLA
Last name GIBSON
Gender Female
Birth 7 January 1909
Death quarter 1
Death year 1991
District Havering
Register number 191
County Essex
Volume 13 Page 382
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Birth:
David Cross (illegitimate)
born: 3rd September 1911 at Burnside Place, Elderslie
Mother: Sarah Ann Hastie or Evans, Housewife, widow
Father: Robert Cross brown?stone miner
registration signed by both Sarah and Robert.

Can anybody see Precilia/ Priscilla Hastie returning to UK from US or Canada between 1928- 1938.

Wondered if she returned with David?

Death of Samuel 1956:

Samuel Hastie (carter, retired)
Widower of Sarah Ann Evans
Died 6th May 1956 County Hospital, Cleland (works C?hill House Airdrie)
Age: 84
Mother: Mary Jane Hastie nee Hyman (deceased)
Father: Robert Hastie, carter (deceased)
Informant: Robert S Thomson- Superintendent Cairnhill House, Airdrie

655/3 121
Shotts (Western District)
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There's quite a bit about Cairnhill House Airdrie if you google including photos.

Well done AustinQ. Samuel's mother's maiden name was Hyndman. As it's Hyman that explains why it was not showing when I put Hyndman in.

There is an occupation of Brownstone miner so you've read that correctly.

David's father in 1911

CROSS
ROBERT
1911
M
26
573/2 2/ 13
Johnstone and Elderslie
Renfrew

????

Miss Priscilla Hastie
in the UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960

Name: Miss Priscilla Hastie
Birth Date: abt 1911
Age: 26
Port of Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Arrival Date: 8 May 1937
Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England
Ports of Voyage: Montreal
Ship Name: Duchess of Atholl
Shipping line: Canadian Pacific Line
Official Number: 160505


Proposed address in UK: 4 Riverside, Westfield, Blairgowrie.
Occupation: Pentograph operator

Seems to have been travelling alone.

I can't see David anywhere after his arrival in Canada.

Oh my goodness :):):)
Are you all professional Genealogists, this is amazing !
I am so sorry I didn't come on line earlier:( Think I was not broadening my searches enough, can't thank you all enough :)
I will follow up and get copies of the registrations.
Samuel was still alive when Sarah died, living at 16 Park Drive Blairgowrie, her death was reported by R Thompson, son in law.
I will create another tree for the Hastie family, perhaps a time line first and tag it to the Alexander Innes tree my grandfather's tree, which I'm still working on. Not missing any ancestors there:)
She was adopted/fostered by the Hossack family from Banff, her name was not changed, she had 9 children, 20 grandchildren and till now I'm still adding GGC & GGGC to the tree:)
Wow!! still bewildered as to how all this info was found and so quickly too.
Many, many thanks Jeanette

Aha! Re the BICA Hostel in Montreal, where David was going, here's some interesting stuff about juvenile immigration into Canada:

http://www.british-immigrants-in-montreal.com/bica.html


From the "Home Children" link given there, there's this, though it doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know:

David Cross HASTIE (117766)
Given Name(s):
David Cross
Surname:
HASTIE
Gender:
M
Age:
15
Year of Arrival:
1927
Ship:
MONTNAIRN
Date of Departure:
1927-03-04/1927-03-05
Port of Departure:
Liverpool, Belfast, and Greenock
Date of Arrival:
1927-03-13
Port of Arrival:
Saint John
Destination:
British Immigration and Colonial Association, Montreal, Quebec
Children travelling together:
J27JR
Comments:
Group of boys
Type of Records:
Passenger Lists
Page Number:
71
Volume Number:
3
Microfilm Reel Number:
T-14849
Reference:
RG 76 C1c
Source:
Library and Archives Canada
Database Item Number:
117766

The only known daughter that we haven't found a marriage for is Mary b. abt. 1904. Not seeing a marriage for her on SP to an R. Thompson. Is it definitely Thompson with a "p" . The more usual Scottish spelling is Thomson. It is always possible, I suppose that Sarah Ann had more children than we've found.

Seems rather sad that Elizabeth was the only child not with her in 1911 but it's good to know she had a happy life with her adopted parents.

Possibly Mary's birth - but I don't see her definitely after that, either, nor any link to an R Thompson;

HASTIE
MARY
F
1904
573/1 1920
Paisley

Got to go out now but this may be a possibility and yet another daughter for Sarah Ann!


THOMPSON
ROBERT GILCHRIS
RAFFERTY
ELLEN
1946
282/1 248
248
St Mary and St Peter

THOMPSON
ROBERT GILCHRIS
HASTIE
ELLEN
1946
282/1 248
248
St Mary and St Peter

THOMPSON
ROBERT GILCHRIS
EVANS
ELLEN
1946
282/1 248
248
St Mary and St Peter

THOMPSON
ELLEN
51
1972
381/ 126
Blairgowrie

Birth registered under Evans, Hastie and Rafferty


HASTIE
ELLEN
F
1921
573/1 1422
Paisley

Well done, RG!

Looks good- Sarah was a busy lady.

Amazing work everybody!

jude

Yes she sure was !! Lol
The amount of details you have all found in such a short time is unbelievable!!
Very much appreciated :)
I can hardly keep up making sense of all the details!
Have a line on Samuel in the valluation rolls 1925/26 that he was a tenant and a laborer at 8 Pattinson Street, Paisley which is the same address David put as his address when he left for Canada. So that's another confirmation.
Whenever Samuel is mentioned on the birth registrations he is either a carter or a laborer but he is not mentioned in any of the censuses only Sarah Ann as Head.
Which may make sense because he was at sea, while she was .....
But looks like they were still together at the end.
Will continue to look for the kids & GKs.
Thanks so much,
Jeanette :)