The Waterston Family of Hamilton, Lanarkshire
William Waterson, a hand loom weaver, married Helen McLaughlan in Hamilton, Lanarkshire circa 1790.
This is our oldest confirmed ancestor from a long line of Waterstons who would marry into the Haddow family and eventually the Strachan family. Little is known about William and Helen's life in Hamilton and this is due to crucial records being lost and destroyed from the local archives.
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What we do know of them is that they lived and worked in Hamilton and had several children:
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Peter Waterston born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1792. Peter married Jane Smith in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 23 July 1815.
They lived all of their married life at 12 Quarry Road, Hamilton. Peter died before 1850 and Jane died aged 87 on 10th December 1881 at 106 Quarry Street in Hamilton. Her nephew James Waterston signed the death certificate. He lived at 22 Duke Street Hamilton.
Margaret Waterson born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 13th January 1799. She died as an infant in 1800.
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James Waterson born Bothwell, Lanarkshire in 1801. James married Jane Frame in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 13th of February 1820. He was 19 and she was 20 years old. Like many of the other family members, the couple lived on Quarry Road, Hamilton.
Their children were:
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Mary Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1821. Mary married William Gardiner on the 7th April 1844 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Click HERE to read their story.
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Margaret Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1822. She married Robert Martin on 20th December 1844 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. They had 8 Children
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Robert Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1847.
He married Euphemia Leitch Heggie in Monimail, Fife, Scotland on 26th December 1873. The couple settled at 21 Muir Street, Hamilton and had 7 children:
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- Robert Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1874
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- Catherine Walker Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 5th November 1876. She married Duncan Henderson at 24 Regent Park Square, Pollokshields, Glasgow on 27th September 1907
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- Margaret Waterston Martin born 21 Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 11th May 1870. She died the 15th of January 1903 from an abdominal aortic sarcoma at 466 Cathcart Road, Glasgow
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- Euphemia Jane Martin born 21 Muir Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 10th of August 1881. She married Alexander Law at 18 Bolton Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow on the 1st of January 1915. They had one daughter born in 1915 - Euphemia Leitch Heggie Law who married William Wright Allan on the 30th June 1941 at Bridgeton, Glasgow.
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- Jane Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 30th October 1885
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- Isabella Jessie Heggie Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 28th March 1887. She married Clement Sim at Alexandra Hotel, Blythswood, Glasgow, Scotland on Christmas Day 1913.
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- James Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 30th June 1889
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Jane Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1848 (Twin to Gavin) She married Peter Clark at Clyde Bridge, Parish of Hamilton on the 2nd August 1867. They had 5 children all born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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- Margaret Clark born 1869. She married James Bell on the 29th february 1888.
He had previously been a neighbour in Muir Street, Hamilton. Together they had 13 children
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William Cole Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1889
Peter Cole Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1890
Jeanie Martin Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1891
James Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1893
John Donaldson Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1889. He died 1896.
Adam Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1897
Duncan Donaldson Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1900
Robert Martin Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1901
Helen Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1903
Norman Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1906
Margaret Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1907
John Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1909
Isabella Bell born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1910
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- Peter Clark born 23rd of April 1871. He died as an infant in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 19th November 1872.
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- Richard Clark born 3rd December 1872 and died 1st of May 1873.
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- Agnes Smith Clark (Twin to Jane) born the 15th of March 1875 at 18 Low Patrick Street, Hamilton.
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- Jane Clark (Twin to Agnes) born the 15th of March 1875 at 18 Low Patrick Street, Hamilton.
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Gavin Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1848 (He was twin to Jane Martin, above)
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James Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 25th September 1850
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Alexander Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 3rd of January 1855. When the family moved to the Old Toll House on Motherwell Road, Hamilton they became more familiar with the Motherwell area of the district. Alexander met Sarah Weir there and they were married in Motherwell in 1877. They had 5 children before moving back to Hamilton
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- Margaret Martin born 1880. She married John Shearer on the 9th of December 1898 at 198 Quarry Street, Hamilton.
They lived at 8 St Johns Lane, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Margaret died at 16 Johnstone Street, Hamilton on the 17th of May 1951 from a brain hemorrhage. Only one child of the marriage Elizabeth (Lizzie) Shearer born 1900 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She never married and died in Hamilton in 1965.
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- Isabella (Bella) Martin born 1881. She married Hugh Wardrope on the 21st of January at the Sheriff Court, 35 Hutchison Street, Merchant City, Glasgow. Due the the location of the wedding and the ages of the couple (Bella 19 & Hugh 20) it's likely the marriage was similar to an elopement. It is believed that they married in this fashion because of parental disapproval. The couple lived at 15 High Patrick Street but tragically Hugh succumbed to bronchitis aged only 26 and died in 1907.
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- Robert Martin born August 1882 - He died days after being born.
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- William Martin born 1884. He lived with his sister Maggie for a while at 8, St Johns Lane, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland when he was a teenager. He married Annie Shearer on the 1st of March 1907 at Church of Scotland, Mansewood, Union Street, Hamilton, Lanarkshire.
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- Jeanie Martin born 1887
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Sadly the children had very little time with their mother before she died at 68A St Johns Lane, Hamilton on the 3rd of May 1890. A stomach ulcer which had given her 4 years of problems burst suddenly.
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Adam Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 12th of August 1857. He married Anne Glen Philips on the 2nd of April 1886 at Mountblow in Kilmacolm, Scotland.
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Peter Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1861
John Martin born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1863
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Margaret Martin (born Waterston) died on the 4th of June 1882 in Motherwell. Her husband Robert Martin died on the 14th April 1887 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. They are both buried in the old parish churchyard in Hamilton.
The gravestone simply reads 'Martin & Waterston'
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Jane Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1824.
She married William Patrick in Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 16th November 1842. Click HERE to read their story.
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Marion Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in February 1826. She married James Scott on the 14th of January 1844 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. They had 6 children:
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Alexander Scott born 22nd of April 1849 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. He died of consumption at 56 Florence Street, Glasgow on the 29th of July 1868. He was 19 years old and single.
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Jane Scott born 5th of October 1851 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.She died of consumption at 56 Florence Street, Glasgow on the 2nd of March 1872. She was 20 years old and single.
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Bethea Scott born 23rd of April 1854 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. She died at 512 Rutherglen Road, Glasgow on the 17th of March 1878 from pleurisy. She was 23 years old and single.
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James Waterston Scott born 6th of January 1857 at 19 Union Street, Hamilton. He married Mary Livingston at Cathcart, Lanarkshire in 1883. They had 5 children:
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- James Scott born 1884
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- Christina Scott born 1886
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- Marion Scott born 1888. She married Alexander Smith Lee in 1915 in Govan, Glasgow. One known daughter Marion Scott Lee born 1918 she married John Kerr Hastie in 1950 in Pollock, Glasgow.
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- Jane Scott born 1891
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- Donald Scott born 1893. He was killed in action during World War I aged 25 in 1918.
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Archibald Scott born 1862 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire. Nothing known about his life or death.
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Adam Scott born 6th May 1865 in Hamilton, Scotland. He died of consumption aged 28 on the 26th of August 1893 at 11 Oatlands Square, Glasgow.
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Elizabeth Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 15th July 1828. She married James Straiton on the 30th of June 1835 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire
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Adam Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 11th November 1830. He married Marion Brownlie in Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1853. Click HERE to read their story.
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James Prentice Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 14th July 1833. He died as an infant before 1835.
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James Waterston born Hamilton 1835. He worked as a Carter in Hamilton. Found at various addresses over the years he looked after his elderly mother. At the age of 45 he married a widow from Hamilton - Helen Morton (nee Brownlie) They were married at 22 Duke Street, Hamilton on the 19th of October 1880. The marriage was a short one as James died at 40 Miller Street, Hamilton on the 21st of September 1882 from Ulceration of Stomach - 3 Months. He was 47 years old.
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Martha Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 6th May 1839. She married John Mason at 25 Low Patrick Street, Hamilton on the 2nd of January 1860. In 1881 the family are living at 4 Caledonian Railway Cottages Newarthill Bridge, Holytown, Lanarkshire. John is a railway signalman and Martha is listed as a railway signal man's wife.
They had six children
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- Jane Mason born 1860. She died as an infant.
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- John Mason born 1865 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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- Boyd Mason born 1867 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a railway signalman. He married Belinda Davie in Rutherglen in 1891.
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They had eight children:
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- John Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1892.
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- William Davie Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1895. He married Lovinia Ann (Annie) Cousins on the 2nd of January 1917 at Registry Office, 21 Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
They had at least two children:
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Belinda Davie Mason born 1921. She died of consumption in 1922.
Boyd Mason born in August 1925. He died 10 months later on the 1st of May 1926 from cancer of the kidneys with tumours in his skull.
- Thomas Boyd Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1897. He died on the 4th of June 1918 aged 21 years. He had an accident while working at Clydesdale Steel Works, Bellshill. While making repairs to the roof he slipped and fell 45 feet, landing on his head, fracturing his skull. He died instantly.
Motherwell Times 28th of June 1918
- Martha Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1899. She married Richard Murray Sneddon in Holytown in 1922. It was a very short marriage as the following year she died, aged 24, on the 24th of September 1923 at 18 Hope Street, Bellshill from pyaemia - blood poisoning.
- Mary Davie Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1901. She died at 71 Stevenston Street, New Stevenston on the 17th of February 1910. She was 8 years old. She died from Gastritis.
- Belinda Davie Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1904. She trained at the Royal Scottish National Institution for mental defectives in Larbert and then received her hospital and maternity training at the Western District Hospital, Glasgow.
She was matron at Lennox Castle Hospital, Stirling from 1944 until her retirement in 1960. She was a nurse for 38 years and was invited down to Buckingham Palace to receive an OBE from Queen Elizabeth. She took both of her sisters, Margaret & Jean, with her for the presentation. She died on the 3rd of May 1988 at the age of 84. She never married and is buried with her parents in Wrangholm Churchyard, Holytown, Motherwell, Lanarkshire.
- Margaret Logan Mason born in Holytown, Lanarkshire on the 21st of May 1906 at 83 Stevenston Street, New Stevenston.
She married William Bryce Crichton on the 24th of August 1932. Prior to the wedding he lived at 168 Oxford Street,Glasgow and owned a restaurant. Margaret died in Bellshill, Lanarkshire in 1993.
- Jeanie McGradie (Jean) Mason born in Jerviston Street, New Stevenston, Lanarkshire on the 3rd of August 1908. She married Robert Penman Dalgleish, a miner, at Wrangholm Kirk Manse, Holytown, Lanarkshire in 1939. They had one known son James Dalgleish born in New Stevenston on the 31st of January 1940. He was a planning foreman with Historic Scotland.
He had responsibility for all of the properties on Bute for many years and was awarded an MBE by the Queen. He died in Wishaw on the 3rd of September 2007. In 2007 a new bench was erected at St Blanes Church, Isle of Bute in memory of James ‘Jimmy’ Dalgleish, MBE
- James Mason born 1870 in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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- Martha Mason born 1874 in Newarthill, Lanarkshire. She married Joseph McConnell in Eastwood, Glasgow in 1899. They had one son James.
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- Allan Mason born 1880 in Newarthill, Lanarkshire. He married Elizabeth Hastie McLean on the 14th of June 1907 at Barrhead Road, Pollokshaws, Glasgow.
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Boyd Mason died on the 12th of January 1922 at the Royal Infirmary Glasgow. Cause of death was blood poisoning. His usual address given as Winona Terrace, New Stevenston. He was buried at Wrangholm Kirkyard. Holytown. Belinda Mason (nee Davie) died on the 10th of November 1938 at 146 Stevenson Street, New Stevenson from chronic nephritis. She is also buried at Wrangholm Kirkyard. Holytown.
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Margaret Waterson born Hamilton, Lanarkshire on the 4th January 1801
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Alexander Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1810 and married Catherine Haddow in Hamilton, Lanarkshire 1837.
(my ancestors) To read their story click HERE
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Robert Waterston born Hamilton, Lanarkshire in 1814. Virtually nothing is know about Robert's life. He appears on the 1861 census. He's 48 and living at Peasebank Cottage, Townhead Street, Hamilton
A Gardener and Widower lodging with his nephew Adam Waterston.
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