Robert's parents, John Geddie and Ann Lamb were not married to each other. The baptism record says
"Robert, natural son to John Geddie, and Anne Lamb, Garmouth was born 16th February 1853. Witnesses of baptism Robert Stewart & Barbara Geddie both Garmouth"
In the 1861 census in John Geddie 's household Ann Lamb, age given as 28, is working as a house servant
Census records state Robert's occupations variously as drapery warehouseman, dispatch clerk and finally, merchantile clerk He died, age 39, of an anurism of the aorta. A notice was put into the Glasgow Herald 20 September 1893, saying he had died suddenly [1]
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