Mary COCKIE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, Tersets, Drumoak, Scotland, UK

Notes:

Tersets Farm, Drumoak, where Mary Cockie worked in 1881, is now owned by William (Sandy) Bisset. Sandy and Mary are both second cousins twice removed and third cousins, twice removed because of double connections through the Silver and Gordon families.

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Birth:
Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
Name: Mary Cockie Gender: Female Birth Date: 27 May 1860 Birth Place: Maryculter,Kincardine,Scotland
Father: Alexander Cockie Mother: Helen Silver
FHL Film Number: 6035516

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Census:
1881 Census for Tersets, Drumoak:
John SHEPHERD Married / Head / Farmer of 140 acres 61 Male born : Echt
Ann B SHEPHERD Married / Wife / Farmers Wife 64 Female born : Echt
Robert SHEPHERD Unmarried / Son / Agricultural Labourer 32 Male born : Echt
Frank EMSLIE Unmarried / Farm Servant 22 Male born : Strachan
Thomas YULE Unmarried / Farm Servant 15 Male born : St Fergus
Mary COCKIE Unmarried / General Domestic Servant 20 Female born : Maryculter

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Family/Spouse: John SILVER. John was born in 1859 in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK; died in 1923 in Gorbals, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Silver's father, also John, is recorded on his death certificate as a journeyman mason and was potentially still living when John junior died in 1924. Without knowing when he was born, there are a couple of John Silvers who were masons born around 1860 or earlier who are potentially his father, given John junior was born in 1883.
The best 'candidate' is a John Silver born around 1859 Fettercairn, Kincardineshire. The others come from districts too far removed from Lumphanan to be seriously considered although it's not impossible that they could have been in the district at the time Mary Cockie fell pregnant to John Silver. But, given the closer proximity between Fettercairn and Lumphanan, the 1859 John Silver stands as the obvious choice. On 1901, he is found in Glasgow as the son of law on a John Joseph Blair, so obviously was married to Agnes Blair.
An online tree gives him was the son of William Silver and Elizabeth Smith, who is turn was the son of Joseph Silver and Isabella Alladyce.
That Joseph Silver is reportedly from Dunnottar, so they all fit in the Aberdeenshire district or surrounds.
As well, on 1881 census, Mary Cockie was at Drumoak which is only a few miles from whether the John Silver in question was living at Clodhill, Banchory Devenick.
All assumptions, but reasonable ones.

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Birth:
1883 births in the parish of Lumphanan, No 8. John Silver Cockie (illegitimate), born 1883 February 21 at 8pm at Old Mill of Auchintrove, Lumphanan, male, son of Mary Cockie, domestic servant.
NOTE: Thereafter known as John SILVER. Marriage cert records that his father was John Silver, mason, journeyman.

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Died:
1924 deaths in the district of St Nicholas in the burgh of Aberdeen.
John Silver, farm servant married to Rachel Kemp, 1924 20 Juy at 7.30pm at Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Laurencekirk, male, aged 42* years, son of John Silver, mason and Mary Cockie, domestic servant (deceased). Causes: Acute cellulitis of scrotum and lower abdoment, general toxaemia. Informant: Andrew Kemp, brother-in-law.
*Based on birth cert, he was 41, not 42.

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John married Rachel KEMP on 30 Jun 1914 in Lumphanan, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Rachel was born in 1886 in Scotland, UK; died in 1961 in Aberdeen Eastern, Scotland, UK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane married Thomas Hadden ROSS on 11 Oct 1940 in Eastend Belmont Church, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Thomas was born in 1880 in Scotland, UK; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]