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Record #14659
Name :
: Margaret Scott PEARSON (1879 - 1906)
  aka : Maggie Pearson


Father
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Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 12 Oct 1879

Marriage (1)
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Marriage (2)
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Date of Death
: 23 Jun 1906
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Glasgow

66 Kelvinhaugh Road
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Martintown
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 13 Jun 1894
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Pomeranian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
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Agency
: Quarriers
NotesA birth registration was found for Margaret Scott Pearson: Date: October 12, 1879, 11:30 pm; Place: 66 Kelvinhaugh Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: David Pearson, warehouse porter (shown as deceased on 18th October, 1879), and Mary Scott, married January 28, 1876, Kelvin District, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

A death registration was found for David Pearson, warehouse porter, married to Mary Scott: Date: october 18, 1879, 2:30 pm; Place: 66 Kelvinbaugh Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: Andrew Pearson, seaman (merchant services) and Margaret Cameron; Cause: valvular disease of heart, 9 months.

Within time, Mary Scott remarried to a David Thomson who became the girls' stepfather. The family moved to Hopehill Road, but a short time later, death claimed Mary Scott Pearson Thomson, leaving the girls without their birth parents.

A death registration was found for Mary Mackenzie Thomson, married first to David Pearson, grocer; second to David Thomason, booksellers assistant: Date: May 6, 1887, 1:30 am; Place: 22 Hopehill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Parents: Adam Scott, grocer; and Mary McKenzie; Cause: phthisis pulmonalis, duration 1 year, 6 months.

Thomson remarried and it was stated in an 1892 letter tat he no longer could keep Maggie. Maggie was sent to the Quarriers' orphanage at Bridge-of- Weir.

In 1894, Maggie Pearson, 14, arrived at Quebec, Canada, in a group of 114 Quarrier children en route to Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

On June 4, 1902, at Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between Margaret Scott Pearson, 21, born in Scotland to David Pearson and Mary E. Scott; and Mac D. McMartin [Malcolm Duncan McMartin], 34, farmer, born in Martintown, Ontario, Canada, to Henry S. McMartin and Bettey McGregor.

Malcolm Duncan and Margaret Scott Pearson McMartin had one child: Margaret Lillian McMartin, born on March 17, 1905, at Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, and died in 1975.

According to family histories, Margaret Scott Pearson McMartin died on June 23, 1906. Malcolm Duncan McMartin remarried Mary Lillian McDonald. Malcolm Duncan McMartin died November 21, 1935. 
ContributorsCreated : 2011-05-29 12:46:05 / From original database

Last Updated : 2011-05-29 13:01:34 /

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13348 ALLISON, Elizabeth1876SCT,     Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
22776 ALLISON, Jane1884ENG,     Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
8368 ASHLING, Emily1870ENG,     May 1888 : Pomeranian CAN Charlotte Alexander  
10059 BUSH, Grace1887SCT,    , Govan Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
23505 GENTLE, Isa Cunningham1884SCT,    , Peebles Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
23506 GENTLE, Janet Anne1890SCT,    , Peebles Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
23504 GENTLE, Marion McBain1882SCT,    , Peebles Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
10304 HEENAN, Isabella1878SCT,    , Wishaw Jun 1893 : Pomeranian CAN St Mary Industrial School, Glasgow  
16376 IZARD, Alfred1878ENG,     Apr 1888 : Pomeranian CAN MacPherson Homes  
13386 MURRAY, Mary1889SCT,     Oct 1904 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
10973 PATEY, George1878ENG,    , Ventnor Apr 1888 : Pomeranian CAN MacPherson Homes  
23486 PATON, Hugh George1893SCT, LKS, Glasgow Sep 1903 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
14659 PEARSON, Margaret Scott1879ENG,    , Glasgow Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
9813 SOLE, William1878ENG,     Apr 1888 : Pomeranian CAN MacPherson Homes  
21816 STABO, Lizzie1884SCT,     Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers  
21815 STABO, Nellie1886SCT,     Jun 1894 : Pomeranian CAN Quarriers