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Robert McTaggart
SRoH. Listed as a soldier from Gatehouse but with no records.
Anwoth & Girthon War Memorial, Gatehouse inscription : Robt. McTaggart R.S.F.
Anwoth Church Memorial : Pte. Robert McTaggart K.O.S.B.
Anwoth (Old Kirk) Gravestone ...Also Private Robert McTaggart, son of the above, who died in hospital Jan 13th 1916 aged 38 years. Interred at Liverpool’. Father : James McTaggart, mother : Margaret Henry.
1881 Anwoth Census, Fleet Street : Robert McTaggart (2) with mother Margaret (40, joiner’s wife) + 3 siblings. [father would seem to be alive but not at home]
1891 Anwoth Census, Fleet Street : Robert McTaggart (13, born Anwoth) with father James (58, joiner) and mother Margaret (49) + 3 siblings.
1901 Anwoth Census, Fleet Street : Robert McTaggart (23, gardener, born Anwoth) with father James (67, house joiner) and mother Margaret (60) + 2 siblings.
1911 Anwoth Census, Fleet Street : Robert McTaggart (32, general labourer, born Anwoth) with parents James(77) and Margaret (71) McTaggart.
Birth Certificate : Robert McTaggart 05/04/1878 at Fleet Street, Gatehouse (Anwoth); Father : James McTaggart (joiner), Mother : Margaret Henry.
Death Certificate : 13/01/1916 Robert McTaggart died of T.B. at the City Hospital, Toxteth, Liverpool. Home given as 17 Salisbury Pier, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool. He was a general labourer.
Buried in Kirkdale Cemetery, Liverpool Plot 1290. Witness was his sister Margaret Rennie. Margaret was born in Gatehouse, her husband Alexander Rennie (dock gateman) was born in Garlieston, but they lived in Liverpool for at least 16 years. (ex 1911 census, Walton, Liverpool)
Gatehouse link : Born in Fleet Street and lived there for most of his life.
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