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Just to confuse things further, here is a Robert Falconer who was a professional boxer (pugilist) - I don't really think he is the correct one but I will post it for reference, just in case.:

1911 Census For England & Wales
21 South Station Road Hirst Ashington Northumberland, Ashington, Northumberland, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
Esther Moffatt Head Widow Female 69 1842 Domestic Duties Quarry Hill Cumberland
James Moffatt Son Single Male 30 1881 Insurance Agent Moor Row Egremont Cumberld
Florence J Nutter Daughter Married Female 42 1869 Domestic Duties Egremont Cumberld
Robert Yorke In Boarder Apartments Married Male 45 1866 Coal Hewer Shilbottle Northmld
Margaret Yorke In Boarder Apartments Married Female 45 1866 Domestic Duties Rothbury Northmld
John Howe Boarder Widower Male 58 1853 Carter -
Samuel Woods Boarder Widower Male 56 1855 Bricklayer South Shields Durham
Robert Falconer Boarder Single Male 24 1887 Professional Pugilist Kirkcaldy Scotland (Travelling Boxing Pavilion)
Joseph Armstrong Boarder Single Male 26 1885 Professional Pugilist Newcastle Northmld
(also - was travelling with them but left on 2nd April - a James Carpenter aged 22 - also prof. pugilist (boxer) from Newcastle.

Dea x

OOOer !! - Just read back through the last page and it seems that this 'may' be the right one after all.

The one already posted as being the son of John + Mary A (nee Stewart) was born in Laurencekirk but actually lived in Kirkcaldy on 1901 which is where the 1911 one says he is from. - He just seems to have lost a couple of years off his age ?

Dea x

Yes, he is the one posted earlier by AG + Maddie :

Robert Falconer
in the 1901 Scotland Census
Name: Robert Falconer
Age: 18
Estimated birth year: abt 1883
Relationship: Son
Father's name: John Falconer
Mother's name: Mary Falconer
Gender: Male
Where born: Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire
Registration Number: 442
Registration district: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
Civil Parish: Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
Town: Kirkcaldy
County: Fife
Address: 10 Glebe Park St
Occupation: General Labourer
ED: 26
Household schedule number: 26
Line: 4
Roll: CSSCT1901_142
Household Members:
Name Age
John Falconer 62
Mary Falconer 61
Alexander Falconer 25
Robert Falconer 18

This newspaper snippet confirms:

KIRKCALDY SCENE.
PUGILIST MAULS A COMMERCIAL. Sequel in Court. Robert Falconer, champion professional boxer, Glebe Park, appeared before Bailie at Kirkcaldy Police Court to-day, and denied that, on 12th February, within icecream shop High Street, assaulted...........................
25 February 1910 - Dundee Evening Telegraph - Dundee, Angus, Scotla

Note the address of 'Glebe Park' on both the article and the census !

Dea x

So at some point between 1910 and 1915 he decided to call himself Stewart.
Maybe because of problems with the police?

If that's him in Fetteresso in 1911, he's still Falconer then.

The name change and timing would fit nicely with William's birth cert - though it's still circumstantial.



Possibly his mother still in Kirkcaldy in 1911 - though her age is a couple of years out:

FALCONER
MARY ANN
1911
F
69
442/ 25/ 12
Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall
Fife



Possibly the deaths of John and Alexander:

FALCONER
ALEXANDER
25
1901
442/ 225
Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall


FALCONER
JOHN
69
1909
442/ 46
Kirkcaldy and Abbotshall

Hmmm!
Well, I've looked at Robert Falconer in Fetteresso in 1911 - and it doesn't seem to be him.

That one is a law agent, born in Stonehaven.
He's living with his aunt Helen Thomson, 63, widow, private means, born Stonehaven.

Bother!

There are a number of other Robert Falconers in various places in Scotland in 1911, but I'm not looking at them all!

So it looks like he took his mothers maiden name Stewart?

'Our' man is definitely the one travelling with his boxing pavilion and boarding in Northumberland on 1911 (posted above).

These newspaper articles are of interest:


https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/97922833

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/97922841

Mind you, none of this is actually proof that he is the father of William but it does show that he would be a very good fit for the role !!


Dea x

I'd forgotten you'd posted that 1911, Dea - a satisfying find!

Yes, Ellen, it seems he took his mother's name as an alias.
Went back to Falconer while in the army ( maybe forced to), then probably went back to Stewart when he deserted in 1919.
Was still Stewart in 1939.

Possibly Rose's death?

Rose Stewart
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Rose Stewart
Death Age: 56
Birth Date: abt 1889
Registration Date: Oct 1945
[Nov 1945]
[Dec 1945]
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 502

I don't see a particularly likely death for Robert, but there are lots of deaths of men named Robert Stewart or Robert Falconer, all over the place, of about the right age.


It would be interesting to know what father's name is on his marriage cert in 1915.

Thank you wonderful people for helping me in this search, I am very grateful to you all
It looks like Robert Falconer was born abt 1883 to John Falconer & Mary Ann Stewart (sometimes known as Robert Stewart)
Robert Stewart married a Rose King 24th August 1915 at Birmingham.
Many thankyou's

I have been searching for a colleage (Tania) who tells me that Robert Stewart died in WW1 her half uncle William Stewart s/o Robert Stewart received a Pension from the British Army as his next of Kin.
Tania thinks the most likely one is Robert Stewart who lived at Mill of Barrass
Sorry to tell you after all of your hard work

No problem, Ellen - it's been a very interesting search!

The address does seem a compelling argument.

He would have been 51 in 1914, though.

CWGC website doesn't show any deaths for any Robert Stewart of a compatible age, so he must be one of the ones listed without an age at death.

Does Tania have any paperwork re Robert's war service - an army number or similar detail?


EDIT:

Well, maybe not.
Robert Bain Stewart, born 27 Aug 1863, son of John Stewart and Susan Bain, appears to have died in 1930, as per the death record previously posted on page 2.

Copied again here:

STEWART
ROBERT BAIN
66
1930
644/4 381
Dennistoun


A tree on Ancestry says he died 1 March 1930 in Glasgow.
The tree says this is his probate - they show the image of the probate record - though unless they know he lived at this address, the record doesn't identify him with any certainty from our point of view.

Stewart, Robert, labourer, 40 Polmadie Road, Glasgow, died 1 March 1930 at Glasgow, testate. Confirmation Glasgow, 23 April, to Ernest Marshall Love CA, Glasgow, and Dr Gilchrist, 114 Main Street, Gorbals there, Executors.
Will dated 25 February, recorded Glasgow 16 April 1930. Value of estate: £225 19s 11d.

That is definitely Robert Bain Stewart's death in 1930 - I've had a look at the death cert;

Robert Bain Stewart, labourer Electricity Department, widower of Annie Robertson.
I March 1930, 5pm, at Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
Home address: 40 Polmadie Road.
Age 66 years.
Parents: John Stewart, farm servant, deceased, and Susan Stewart, ms Bain, deceased.
Cause of death: cystitis, "to my knowledge 14 days", toxaemia. Certified by Wm B Adam, MBChB.
Informant: Wm Stewart, son, 12 Pirie [ ?? Pine ? ] Street, Glasgow.

Hmmm -
the same tree says that the son William was his son with Annie Robertson, and was born 1889 in Glasgow.

And indeed, that Wiliam is on the 1891 and 1901 censuses posted on page 2.


The tree doesn't mention a later son William with Georgina.


Does it seem likely that a married "inspector in cleansing dept" living in Glasgow (per 1901) , and still in Glasgow in 1930, would be a farm labourer fathering a child in Kinneff area in 1913?

I'll try to find him in 1911.

His wife Annie died 1908.