Biography

This profile is part of the Duncan Name Study.

Walter Davidson Duncan was born 2 January 1834 on Old Belses, an estate between Lilliesleaf and Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland and about four miles from St. Boswells. His parents were Alexander and Jean (Heatlie) Duncan. ^{[1] [2]}

In 1834 it was still unusual to have a middle name in Scotland. His parish register birth record shows him without a middle name, but by the time he married he was using Davidson as a middle name. In that era a middle name was usually given to honor an ancestor but no Davidsons have been found in his family tree. However, at the time of Walter's birth, half of Old Belses was owned by Harry Davidson, ^[3] Writer to the Signet, an influential soliciter in Edinburgh. ^[4] It is possible that Walter was given the middle name Davidson in honor of the gentleman who owned the farm.

Walter's father was described as both a baker and a laborer. ^{[2] [5] [6]}

Seven years later, at the time of the first Scottish census in 1841, Alexander was not found with the family. ^[7] Walter was the last of Alexander and Jane's children, so his father may have died around the time of Walter's birth, leaving Jane to provide for four children. Elizabeth appears to have been living with her uncle William Heatlie in 1841 in Cockpen, about 35 miles north of St. Boswells. ^[8]

In 1851 Walter was living in a house with two other people, apparrently unrelated to him. His sister Margaret was a house servant for the family next door and Walter's mother and sister Janet are not to be found in St. Boswells. Walter was listed as a 17-year-old scholar, which was very unusual for the time. Children who went to school usually finished at 14 and began work. It is not known how Walter was able to live on his own without working. ^[9]

We don't know what Walter did for the next six years or where he was, but on 10 June 1857 he married Margaret Marshall in Arbroath, Scotland. Arbroath is 120 miles north of St. Boswells, a distance one would not have traveled without good reason and we don't know why he did so. ^[6] However, a possible clue may lie in the fact that the men of the household next door to Walter in 1851 were occupied as "Draper, Grocer & Spirit Dealer." ^[9]

The Grocery Years

Margaret was the daughter of a locomotive engine fitter and Walter was, in 1857, a grocer. ^[6]

Margaret and Walter had eight children:

• Alexander Duncan, born 14 June 1858 in Arbroath, Scotland;^[10]
• Grace Sharp Duncan, born 24 May 1860 in Arbroath;^[11]
• George Marshall Duncan, born 3 April 1862 in Arbroath;^[12]
• Jane Heatlie Duncan, born 26 June 1864 in Glasgow, Scotland;^[13]
• Walter Duncan, born 14th June 1866 in Gartshore Siding, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland;^[14]
• Robert Marshall Duncan, born 20 July 1868 in Gartshore Siding;^[15]
• William Graham Duncan, born 27 February 1871 in Gartshore Siding;^[16]
• Margaret Duncan, born 27 July 1873 in Tweechar, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.^[17][1]

In 1861 Margaret was living with her parents at Ogilvie Place No 3, Arbroath. She was listed as a grocer's wife. ^[18] Walter is found living seperately at 5 Murray Lane, Montrose, Angus, Scotland and is listed as a grocer's salesman. ^[19] Montrose is about 13 miles up the coast from Arbroath.

The family was still in Arbroath in April 1862 when Walter's son George was born ^[12] and he was still a grocer. However, by June 1864 they were in the Tradeston district of Glasgow for the birth of daughter Jane and Walter had a new occupation. He was a railway passenger porter. ^[13]

The Railroad Years

By June 1866 they had moved again and were in Kirkintilloch parish about 10 miles east of Glasgow for the birth of son Walter ^[14] and in 1871 for the census. ^[20]

In 1866 Walter was a pointsman, that is, a man who operated the switches of a railroad siding. He worked and lived at Gartshore Sidings which serviced the William Baird and Co. coal mines around Twechar.

"There is a pointsman's cabin on the up line side of that railway, 36 miles 63 chains from Edinburgh, and 10 miles 39 chains from Glasgow; and this cabin is situated between Croy, a passenger and goods station, a mile distant on the east, and Garngaber goods junction, 3 miles 66 chains on the west."^[21]

The cabin had two rooms with windows, probably two rooms in total, for two adults and seven children. ^[20]

Son Robert was born in 1868. ^[15]

On 29 September 1870 there was a train wreck at Gartshore Sidings from which eight people were injured but none killed. An investigation of the incident assigned no blame to Walter and he continued as pointsman for at least six months. ^[20]

Son William was born in 1871. ^[16]

The Mine Years

By August 1873 the family was living at 22 Twechar Row in Twechar.^[1] Twechar Row was an apartment block built by the mine for it's workers. The apartments were composed of a room and kitchen. There was no indoor water or sanitation. ^[22] Walter was then a colliery check clerk, a person who counted the loads of coal coming out of the mine.

Walter's family was not doing especially well, considering his better-than-average education, but the situation was about to become dramatically worse.

In August 1873 Margaret ^[23] and her 12-day-old daughter ^[24] died just three days apart. The death record lists Margaret's cause of death as Methisis. If that is an alternate spelling of Methysis, Margaret died of drunkeness.

Five years later in 1878 tragedy struck again when 10-year-old Robert died of menengitis. ^[25]

In 1881 Walter was living in nearby Kilsyth with children Grace, 20, and Walter, 15. Walter was a laborer, Grace a domestic servant, and Walter, junior, an apprentice blacksmith. ^[26]

Alexander and George were living in Camlachie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, where they were railway guards in 1881. ^[27]

Jane and William have not been found for 1881. Jane could have been a live-in servant. However, William was only 10 in 1881. In 1891 he was living with Walter again for the census, so perhaps he was omitted from Walter's household in 1881.

Second Marriage

One of the few items of good news occurring during that period was that nine years after Margaret died, Walter married again on 23 May 1882. His bride, Margaret (Johnston) Stewart, was a textile worker who lived a quarter mile away. She was a widow and brought her youngest son, Rob, 13, to the household, which still included Grace and Walter, junior. Walter, junior, was one of the witnesses on the marriage register. ^[28]

Walter and Margaret would have no issue.

Three months later Walter, junior, was killed in an accident at the mine. At 16 he was a brakeman on the mine railway. Somehow a railway wagon ran over both his legs. Horribly injured, he was sent, probably by train, to the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow, where he died 10 August. ^{[29] [30]}

Four months later in December 1882 Grace married William Bowman, a worker in Glasgow's shipbuilding industry, at Garrell Mill in Kilsyth. ^[31]

The year after that (1883) Alexander was a railway guard (conductor in USA), living two blocks from Glasgow Central Station when he was killed in a railroad accident. His death record says he suffered "Injury to spine & severe internal injuries." ^[32]

In 1891 Walter, Margaret, William, and Rob Stewart were living at 30 Market Street in Kilsyth. ^[33]

In 1892 William joined the British Army. ^[34]

In 1901 Walter, Margaret, and Rob were still living in Kilsyth. Rob was still single and not working; possibly he was caring for his invalid mother. ^[35]

Walter's daughter, Jane Heatly Duncan, died in 1903 at Surry Royal County Hospital, Guildford, Surry, England of a gastric ulcer perforation. ^{[1] [36]} Apparently she never married.

Margaret died 28 January 1904 in Kilsyth of exhaustion. She had been paralyzed for eight years. ^[37]

Apparently Rob then felt free to start his own family and on 2 June 1905 he married Agnes Brown Black in Linlithgow ^[38] and they set up housekeeping at 15 High Craigend in Kilsyth just a block away from Walter. In 1911 he was a coke oven kilnman. ^[39]

In 1911 Walter was living in the same house at 30 Market Street, but now as a boarder with a Kirkwood family. ^[40] He was living on a pension from the mine. There was a Maggie Kirkwood in the family and a Margaret Kirkwood was a witness for Rob's marriage. ^[38]

Walter died 6 April 1912 in Kilsyth of heart problems. ^[41] He had outlived two wives and at least half his children. Of his eight children, only Grace is known to have had children of her own.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Walter Davidson and Margaret (Marshall) Duncan Family Bible
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Birth: "Old Parish Registers, Births," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 804/20 97, pg. 97; St Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Walter Duncan son of Alexander Duncan laborer Old Belses and Jean Heatlie his wife was born Jany 2 1834.
3. ↑ "Land tax rolls for Roxburghshire, Vol. 5," E106/29/5/1, pg. 1. ScotlandsPlaces.gov.uk, citing the National Records of Scotland. HARRY DAVIDSON, Writer to the Signet.
   Those parts and portions of the Lands and Estate of Belses, lying upon the west side of the public road that leads from Lilliesleaf to the Burgh of Jedburgh by Chesters
   Valuation: £320 s.12 d.3
4. ↑ "Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain)," A history of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet, University Press, Edinburgh, 1890, pg. 53. DAVIDSON, HARRY, of Old Belses. 16th November 1781.
   Apprentice to Robert Jamieson. - Second son of James Davidson, Merchant in Dysart. Born 1755. Died 11th February 1837. Mar. Ann Gillespie. Sheriff-Substitute of Mid-Lothian, 1791-1820.
5. ↑ "Old Parish Registers Banns and marriages," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 692/2 230 59, Leith South Parish, Scotland; 1 Jan 1828, Alexander Duncan & Jane Heattlie. Alexander Duncan, baker in Leith, and Jane Heattlie, residing in Leith and daughter of John Heattlie, workman in St. Boswell Parish after proclamation of bans were married on [blank] by the Rev. Robert Gordon.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Marriage: "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTJB-VB3 : 10 February 2018), Walter Davidson Duncan and Margaret Marshall, 10 Jun 1857; citing Arbroath, Forfar, Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 6,035,516. On the tenth day of June 1857 at Nallden? Street Arbroath Marriage (after Banns) was solemnized (between us?) acording to the forms of the Free Church of Scotland. (signed) Walter Davidson Duncan, 23, Abbey (Cross?), Arbroath, Grocer (Bachelor), Father: Alexander Duncan, Baker, (deceased), Mother: Jane Duncan, Maiden Name Heatlie (signed) Margaret Marshall, 19, Wallace Street, Arbroath, Domestic Servant (Spinster), Father: George Marshall, engine fitter, Mother: Grace Marshall, Maiden Name Sharp.
7. ↑ "Scotland Census 1841," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 804/ 3/ 7, St Boswells, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Jane Duncan, 32, female agricultural laborer; Janet Duncan, 11; Margt Duncan, 9; Walter Duncan, 7.
8. ↑ "Scotland Census 1841," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 676/ 4/ 17, Kirkhill, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland. William Heatlie, 35, agricultural laborer; Elizabeth Heatlie, 35; John Heatlie, 3; Elizabeth Knox, 70; Elizabeth Duncan, 12.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} "Scotland Census 1851," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 804/ 1/ 14, St Boswells, Roxburgh, Scotland. Walter Duncan, 17, Scholar.
10. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 272/ 281, Arbroath, 1858, Alexander Duncan.
11. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 272/ 279, Arbroath, 1860, Grace Sharp Duncan.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 272/ 166, Arbroath, 1862, George Marshall Duncan.
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 644/9 965, Tradeston, 1864, Jane Heatlie Duncan.
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 498/ 155, Kirkintilloch, 1866, Walter Duncan.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 498/ 197, Kirkintilloch, 1868, Robert Marshall Duncan.
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 498/ 61, Kirkintilloch, 1871, William Graham Duncan.
17. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Births," ScotlandsPeople, 498/ 237, Kirkintilloch, 1873, Margaret Duncan.
18. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB7Y-SCQ : 11 December 2017), Margaret Duncan, Arbroath, Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland; from "1861 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012.); citing p. 7, PRO RG 9, The National Archives UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 103,786.
19. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBW9-H3W : 11 December 2017), Walter D Duncan, Montrose (Burgh), Forfarshire (Angus), Scotland; from "1861 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012.); citing p. 16, PRO RG 9, The National Archives UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 103,793. Walter D Duncan, head, 26, Gracer's Salesman, born: Ancrum, Roxburghshire; Samuel R Hutchings, boarder, 14, Sadler Apprentice, born: England.
20. ↑ ^{20.0 20.1 20.2} "Scotland Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBRJ-P4W : 8 December 2017), Margaret Duncan, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; from "1871 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 5, PRO T 1, The National Archives UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 103,978. Walter D Duncan, 36; Margaret Duncan, 33; Alexander Duncan, 12; Grace S Duncan, 10; George M Duncan, 8; Jane H Duncan, 6; Walter G Duncan, 4; Robert M Duncan, 3; William G Duncan, 1 Mo.
21. ↑ "Accident at Gartshore Sidings on 29th September 1870," Railways Archive. Accessed 27 Feb 2018.
22. ↑ "Twechar - An Oral History of a Pit Village," Sept 2017, produced by Oral History Research & Training Consultancy, printed by Kenwil Ltd.
23. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Deaths," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 498 / 96, National Records of Scotland; Kirkintilloch, Dunbarton, Scotland; 1873, pg. 32. Margaret Duncan, married to Walter Duncan; check clerk colliery; 1873, August fifth, 8h 0m P.M.; F, 35 years; [father] George Marshall, engine keeper; [mother] Grace Marshall, m.s. Sharp; [cause] Methisis[?], 2 months, as cert. by John Fraser, M.D.; [informant] Walter Duncan, widower, present.
24. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Deaths," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 498 / 99, National Records of Scotland; Kirkintilloch, Dunbarton, Scotland; 1873, pg. 33. Margaret Duncan, single; 1873, August eighth, 6h A.M, 22 Twechar Row, Kirkintilloch; F, 12 days; [father] Walter Duncan, colliery check clerk; [mother] Margaret Duncan, m.s. Marshall (deceased); [cause] Weakness[?], 10 days, as cert. by John Fraser, M.D.; [informant] Walter Duncan, father, present.
25. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Deaths" Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 108, National Records of Scotland; Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland; 1878, pg. 36. Robert Marshall Duncan, single; 1878 August seventh, 12h 30m P.M., Parkfoot, Kilsyth; male, 10 years, father: Walter Duncan, coal weigher; mother: Margaret Duncan m.s. Marshall (dec.); cause: menengitis, 15 days, informant: Walter Duncan, father.
26. ↑ "Scotland Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMKH-JFS : 8 December 2017), Walter Duncan, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland; from "1881 England, Scotland & Wales census," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing p. 1, PRO T 1, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 203,542. Walter Duncan, widower, 46, general laborer, born: St. Boswells, Roxburghshire; Grace Duncan, 20, Domestic Serv, born: Arbroath, Forfarshire; Walter Duncan, 15, Apprentice Blacksmith, born: Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
27. ↑ "Census Returns, 1881," ScotlandsPeople, 644/2 89/ 2, Camlachie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Alexander Duncan, 23, lodger, unmarried, railway goods guard; George Duncan, 19, lodger, unmarried, railway goods guard.
28. ↑ Marriage: "Statutory Registers, Marriages," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 34, National Records of Scotland; Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland; 1882, pg. 17, no. 34. 1882 on the 23rd day of May at Garrrel Mill, Kilsyth, after banns according to the forms of the Congl Churches in Scotland; Signed Walter Dvidson Duncan, Labourer (Widower); 49, Parkfoot, Kilsyth; father: Alexander Duncan, Baker (Dec); mother: Jane Duncan m.s. Heatlie; Signed Margaret (Her X Mark) Johnston or Stuart, Wander (cotton) (Widow); Wm Johnston, Witness; Ellen Johnston, Witness; 48, Neilson, Kilsyth; father: William Johnston, Weaver (Dec); mother: Elisabeth Johnston m.s. Bald (Dec); Signed George Rutherford, Pastor of Congl Church in Kilsyth; Signed ? Kirkwood, Witness; Walter Duncan, Witness.
29. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Deaths," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 644/3 1086, National Records of Scotland; Dennistoun, Lanarkshire, Scotland; 1882, pg. 362. Walter Duncan, brakeman at a coal pit, single; 1882 August tenth, 8h 35m P.M.; Royal Infirmary Glasgow, usual residence Kilsyth; male, 16 years; father: Walter Duncan, coalhill laborer, mother: Margaret Duncan m.s. Marshall (dec.), cause: Smash (Railway) of both legs, informant: Walter Duncan, father.
30. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Corrected Entries," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 644/03 003 78, National Records of Scotland; Dennistoun, Lanarkshire, Scotland; 1882, vol. 3, pg. 78. The following report of ? of a ? has been received ? the death of Walter Duncan, junior, Registered under no. 1086 in the Register Book of Deaths for the year 1882. Walter Duncan, junior, brakeman (single), male, 16 years, son of Walter Duncan, laborer, and Margaret Marshall, 1882 August Tenth, in the Royal Infirmary Glasgow, Usual Residence Kilsyth, Cause of Death: Injuries sustained by a Railway Wagon having passed over both of Deceased legs.
31. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Marriages," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 59, Kilsyth, Sterling, Scotland. William Bowman, 21, pattern maker, and Grace Sharp Duncan, 22, domestic servant; 1 December 1882 at Garrel Mill, Kilsyth, after banns according to the forms of the Congregational Church in Scotland; groom's residence: Dalmuir, Old Kilpatrick; bride's residence: Barony Parish, Glasgow; groom's father: William Hamilton, blacksmith, reputed father (dec.); groom's mother: Helen Bowman, domestic servant; bride's father: Walter Duncan, laborer; bride's mother: Margaret Duncan, M.S. Marshall (dec.); officiating minister: George Rutherford, pastor of the Cong. Church in Kilsyth; witnesses: Jane Duncan, Adam Hanks. Accessed 8 September 2017.
32. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Deaths," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 644/3 428, National Records of Scotland; Dennistoun, Lanarkshire, Scotland; 1883, pg. 143, no. 428. Alexander Duncan, Railway Guard (single); 1883, March seventh, 11h 30m P.M; Royal Infirmary Glasgow, usual residence: 5 Wellington Street, Parkhead, Glasgow; male, 24 years; father: Walter Duncan, general laborer, mother: Margaret Duncan m.s. Marshall (deceased), cause: Injury to spine & severe internal injuries, informant: Walter Duncan, Father, Garrelmill, Kilsyth.
33. ↑ "Scotland Census 1891," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/3/ 2; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 2 of 19. 30 Market St., two rooms with windows, Walter Duncan, head, Mar, 57, Gen. Labourer, born: St. Boswell, Roxburghshire; Margt Duncan, wife, Mar, 56, born: Bannock Burn, Stirlingshire; Rob Stewart, stepson, unm, 22, Gen. Labourer, born: Auchterarder, Perth; Wm Duncan, son, unm, 20, Tailor, born: Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.
34. ↑ "British Army Service Records 1760-1915 Transcription," Wo 97 - Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service Records 1760-1913, FindMyPast.co.uk (pay site). William Graham Duncan; Birth: 1871, Gartshore, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; Service number: 4694; Attestation date: 04 Oct 1892, Attestation age: 21 years 5 months, Attestation corps: Hd Ly Lt Infantry.
35. ↑ "Scotland Census 1901," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 7/ 35; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 35 of 43. Two rooms with windows, Walter Duncan, head, Mar, 67, Labourer, born: St. Boswell, Roxburghshire; Margaret Duncan, wife, Mar, 71, born: Bannock Burn, Stirlingshire; Robert Stewart, stepson, 35, not working, born: Kilsyth, Sterlingshire.
36. ↑ "Death Certificate for Jane Duncan," General Register Office, United Kingdom; Dec 1903, Vol. 2a, Page 63, No. 47. Fourteenth Deecember 1903, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK; Jane Duncan, Female, 36 Years, Daughter of William Duncan, a coal carman, Milford, Surrey; Cause: Gastric ulcer perforation, 4 days, peritonitis toxacemia, certified by H.A. Lyth, M.B.; Informant: G. Fausnett Rugg, Assistant House Surgeon, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford.
37. ↑ "Statutory Registers, Death," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 29; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 10, no. 29. Margaret Duncan Married First James Stewart Blacksmith Second Walter Duncan Labourer; 1904 January Twenty Eighth 7h 40m A.M., 41 Newtown St, Kilsyth; F, 72 yrs; father: William Johnston Weaver (Dec), mother: Elizabeth Johnston M. S. Bauld (Dec); cause: Paralysis 8 Years Exhaustion; informant: Walter Duncan Widower (Present).
38. ↑ ^{38.0 38.1} "Statutory Registers Marriages," 668/ 10, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland. Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site). 1905 on the second day of June at 324 High Street, Linlithgow, After banns according to the forms of the Church of Scotland; (Signed) Robert Stewart, Labourer, Bachelor, 34, Kilsyth, father: James Stewart, Labourer, deceased, mother: Margaret Stewart M.S. Johnston, deceased; (Signed) Agnes Brown Black, Papermill Worker, Spinster, 32, Linlithgow, mother: Marion Black, Domestic Servant; (Signed) Thomas Luglen, Minister; (Signed) John Falconer, Witness, Margaret Kirkwood, Witness.
39. ↑ "Scotland Census 1911," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 2/ 12; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 12 of 32. Robert Stewart, Head, 45, Mar, Kilnman, Coke Ovens, born: Auchterarder, Perthshire; Agnes B. Stewart, wife, 37, Married 5 years, one child born, one living, born: Edinburgh; Annie M. F. Stewart, Daug, 4, born: Kilsyth, Sterlingshire.
40. ↑ "Scotland Census 1911," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 3/ 9; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 9 of 31. 30 Market Street, Walter Duncan, boarder, 77, Widower, Retired Coal Mine (Pensioner), born: St. Boswells, Roxburgh.
41. ↑ Death: "Statutory Registers, Death," Scotlandspeople.gov.uk (pay site), 483/ 51; Kilsyth, Sterlingshire, Scotland; pg. 17, no. 51. Walter Duncan, Labourer; married to first Margaret Marshall, second Margaret Johnston; 1912 April Sixth, 10h 15m P.M., 30 Market Street, Kilsyth; male, 78 years; father: Alexander Duncan, Labourer (Dec); mother: Jane Duncan m.s. Heatley (Dec); cause: ? Cardiac ?; informant: Wm Bowman, son-in-law.

See, also:

• Rail Map online, Gartshore Sidings