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ErikaH

ErikaH Report 13 Sep 2022 12:19

1841 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Backaskaill, Burness (Sanday), Orkney, Scotland

John Wallace Male 20 1821 Orkney, Scotland
Jean Wallace Female 25 1816 Orkney, Scotland
Barbara Wallace Female 1 1840 Orkney, Scotland

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 13 Sep 2022 12:29

1851 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Tangbrae, Burness (Sanday), North Isles, Orkney, Scotland

John Wallace Head Married Male 32 1819 Ploughman ag lab Orkney, Scotland
Jean Wallace Wife Married Female 38 1813 - Orkney, Scotland
Jean Wallace Daughter - Female 9 1842 - Orkney, Scotland
Margaret Wallace Daughter - Female 6 1845 - Orkney, Scotland
Eliza Wallace Daughter - Female 1 1850 - Orkney, Scotland

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 13 Sep 2022 13:09

Continuing on - though I'm sure Mike has all this -

John Wallace
in the 1861 Scotland Census
Name: John Wallace
Age: 42
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819
Relationship: Head
Spouse's Name: Jane Wallace
Gender: Male
Where born: Cross, Orkney
Registration Number: 31
Registration district: Stronsay
Civil parish: Stronsay
County: Orkney
Address: No 11
Occupation: Ag Lab
ED: 6
Household schedule number: 16
Line: 22
Roll: CSSCT1861_4
Household Members Age Relationship
John Wallace 42 Head
Jane Wallace 52 Wife
Eliza Wallace 11 Daughter


John Wallace
in the 1871 Scotland Census
Name: John Wallace
Age: 53
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Relationship: Head
Spouse's Name: Jane Wallace
Gender: Male
Where born: Cross, Orkney
Registration Number: 31
Registration district: Stronsay
Civil parish: Stronsay
County: Orkney
Address: 12 Village
Occupation: Grocer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
ED: 6
Household schedule number: 15
Line: 19
Roll: CSSCT1871_6
Household Members Age Relationship
John Wallace 53 Head
Jane Wallace 55 Wife
Margaret Wallace 7 Grandaughter (Granddaughter)

The grand-daughter is the girl listed as step-daughter to Robert in 1881.


It does seem, though, that Robert (Barbara's father) , who was born in Edinburgh, changed occupation from shale miner to grocer when he moved to Orkney.
No doubt he had to - there's not much call for shale miners in Orkney.

Perhaps he took over from Barbara's father John, who was a grocer by 1871??

Robert and Margaret's marriage . Their daughter Elizabeth (in 1881 census) was born in West Calder:

28 January 1870 at 6 Tay Street, West Calder.
Robert Watt, shale miner, bachelor, 19.
Parents: Robert Watt, tailor, and Margaret Watt, ms Brown.

Margaret Wallace, domestic servant, spinster, 22.
Parents: John Wallace, spirit merchant, and Jane Wallace, ms Scott.



AHA!
Reason for the Garrioch name - it was Barbara's grandmother's surname.
Death of her father:

WALLACE
JOHN
81
mmn GARRIOCH
1899
031/ 8
Stronsay

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 13 Sep 2022 13:19

CORRECTION -

At 11:20 I said that Margaret was in Dalkeith, Edinburgh in 1901.

My mistake - she was in Dalkeith, Orkney.

Spotted it myself, then Mike also PM'd:

"her father was primarily a farmer with shops, he had land on sanday stronsay and papa stronsay. The census say one thing other official documents ie deaths births another
The Dalkeith you refer to is in Orkney my grandfather lived there.
Generations of my own family built boats but they were primarily farmers "