Harrower Family Tree » Robert Young (1850-1930)

Personal data Robert Young 

• He was born on December 2, 1850 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland.Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Occupations:
• before 1930 Station Master.Source 1
• in the year 1871 Station Master in Lugton Smithy, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 4
• in the year 1881 Railway Station Master in Station House, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 5
• in the year 1891 Railway Station Master in Station House, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 2
• in the year 1901 Railway Station Master in Dalry Road, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 3
• Resident:
• in the year 1871: Lugton Smithy, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 4
• in the year 1881: Station House, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 5
• in the year 1891: Station House, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 2
• in the year 1901: Dalry Road, Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 3
• (Civil) on August 5, 1930 in Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland.Source 1
• He died on April 5, 1930 in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was 79 years old.Sources 1, 6
• He is buried in Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland.Source 6

Household of Robert Young

(1) He is married to Elizabeth Thomson.

They got married in the year 1881 at Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was 30 years old.Source 7

Child(ren):

1. Janet Young  1883-????
2. Jane Young  1885-????
3. Robert Young  1886-????

(2) He is married to Eliza Anderson.

They got married in the year 1894 at Beith, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was 43 years old.Source 8

1894 YOUNG, ROBERT, ELIZA ANDERSON (Statutory Registers Marriages) 581/ 17 Beith (Ayr)

Notes about Robert Young

1. Courtesy of @ https://pigott-gorrie.blogspot.com/search?q=rankin
Robert YOUNG was with his parents in 1851; he was a Scholar, with his parents, 1861; and in 1864, he was employed as a Clerk at Paisley Railway Station.
He was recorded in Directories at 40 Broomlands, Clerk, Railway Station, 1867-68; at 19 St James's Street, Booking Clerk, Railway Station, 1868-69; and at 1 St James's Street, Booking Clerk, Railway Station, 1869-70 (perhaps with a typo in the street number?).

The Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway had been authorised in 1869, by the Glasgow and South West Railway and the Caledonian Railway Companies, to build and operate a line from Neilston through Uplawnmore, Lugton and Dunlop to Stewarton, which opened in 1871, and this was extended to Kilmarnock by 1873.
In February 1871, Robert was promoted to the new post of Station Master at Lugton Station in Dunlop Parish, Ayrshire; this station was the nearest one to Highgate Farm, where his future wife Elizabeth lived with her THOMSON family.
In the 1871 Census, he was boarding at the Smithy, in Lugton, aged 20, Station Master, with the Blacksmith Andrew McGILL and his family.

In May 1878, Robert accompanied his father on a Railwayman's version of a "Busman's holiday" to Paris, via a stay in London with relations.

In the 1881 Census, he is residing at Station House, Lugton, aged 30, Railway Station Master, with his newly married wife Elizabeth Thomson, aged 23, born in Loudon.

Later in 1881, Robert was again promoted, this time to the Terminus Station at Beith Town.

In the 1891 Census, he was residing at Station House, Lugton Road, Beith, aged 40, a Widower, with his three young children, and a Servant and Housekeeper named Jane SNODGRASS, aged 68, b. Beith.

In the 1901 Census, he was at Dalry Road, Beith, aged 50, Railway Station Master, with his second wife Eliza Anderson (aged 44, born at Dalry, Ayrshire), and his three children.

In the 1911 Census, he was at Station House, Beith Town, aged 60, with wife Elizabeth (53), and two younger children.

[The old Railway Station Master's residence, Beith Town.
Image courtesy of the commons.wikimedia.org web-site.]

Robert retired in June 1923, aged 72; he removed from Station Cottage, Winton Place, into Westfield, King's Road, Beith. He died at Westfield on 5 April 1930, aged 80 (Pulmonary embolism); and was buried at Beith Town Cemetery.

[Robert YOUNG Junior's plot in Beith Town Cemetery.]

[Robert YOUNG Junior's headstone in Beith Town Cemetery.]

His will, dated 31 May 1928, was recorded at Kilmarnock on 5 September 1930, with confirmation dated 10 September to John CROSBIE, of Cumnock Sreet, Clerk; Robert Young URIE, of Langside Road, Glagow, Coal Merchant, and John Alexander Anderson LOVE, Writer, the executors. Value of estate, £1313 15s 6d.

Robert YOUNG was married firstly, at Highgate Farm, Parish of Beith, after Banns according to the Forms of the Established Church of Scotland, on 28 December 1880, to Elizabeth THOMSON, daughter of William THOMSON, Farmer, of Highgate Farm, and his wife Janet Burns HOWATSON.

Elizabeth YOUNG died at Station Cottage, Beith, on 26 January 1888, aged 26, of Phthisis, Pulmonitis; she was buried in Robert YOUNG Senior's Lair in Woodside Cemetery, Paisley.

[The only photograph I have seen of Elizabeth THOMSON, with her husband and three children, probably taken shortly before her death.
Was this a typical family photo, or was this the consumptive being "isolated" from her children?]

Robert was married secondly, at Highgate, Beith, 8 June 1894, to Eliza ANDERSON otherwise THOMSON, the widow of his late wife's brother, William THOMSON.

[Robert YOUNG (right) with his second wife Eliza (left) and his three children by his first wife - Janet (rear left), Janey (rear right) and Robert Junior (seated).
I estimate that the photo was probably taken about 1898.
I might not have recognized this from Janet's image alone - but I have no doubt that it is Robert Senior, and the arrangement of the whole indicates that the others could only have been his immediate family.
The dark background (and consequent lack of any distracting detail) and the very good quality of the lighting does indicate that it was a studio shot, and so perhaps not taken in Beith.
Image courtesy of David CRAIG, a great-Grandson of Eliza's sister Margaret ANDERSON,
from a family album in his possession.]

Robert and Elizabeth had issue:

1. Janet Howatson YOUNG, born at Winton Place, Beith, on 14 February 1883.
See her separate blog post at this link:
http://pigott-gorrie.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/janet-howatson-young-spouse-of-dr-peter.html

2. Jane (Janey) Paton YOUNG, born at Wester Highgate Farm on 26 September 1884; she was aged 6, Scholar, with her father, 1891; aged 16, Scholar, with her father and step-mother, 1901. Miss Jane P. YOUNG completed her studies at Glasgow University in April 1906, majoring in Moral Philosophy, and in both German and French Literature and Languages [Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, 13 April 1906], and was due to "... be capped" for her M.A. degree on Tuesday 1 May. She was aged 26, Teacher, School Board, with her father and step-mother, 1911.

Janey visited Adelaide in 1936, and spent some time with her sister Janet GORRIE at Victor Harbour in the weeks before her death. She arranged for Janet's younger daughter Jan GORRIE to join her when she and Jim had settled into retirement in Essex.
Janey died at "The Elms," 28 Well Lane, Stock, Essex, on 9 May 1973, her death being informed by her niece Sadie Biggar McFARLANE of Hendon.
Jane Paton YOUNG, aged 26, a Teacher residing in Scotland, was married in the Wellesley Square Church, Calcutta, by a Minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, on 7 November 1911, to James MACKIE, aged 26, Mining Engineer, of Jamadolio, Manbhum District, India.

He was born at Cross of Beith, Ayrshire, in January 1885, a son of Robert MACKIE, Grocer and Coal Master, and Elizabeth WALLACE. Jim worked for the Eastern Coal Company in Bihar, which supplied coal for ships of the Peninsular and Oriental Shipping Company in Indian ports. They lived at Bihar, 200 km north-west of Calcutta, and 8 km south of the River Ganges near its confluence with the River Ganda at Patna.
In 1915, her sister Janet GORRIE, with her two infant children Bob and Betty, visited the MACKIEs and spent time with them while Peter GORRIE served with the R.A.M.C. in the Mediterranean - the visit included a trip into the foothills of the Himalayas.
In 1927, Janey and Jim MACKIE visited the GORRIEs in Mount Lofty, near Adelaide - their visit included a motoring trip to Canberra with the GORRIEs for the official opening of the newly constructed Parliament House.
James MACKIE retired as a Collier in India in about 1937, and he and Janey settled in Stock, near Chelmsford, in Essex.
Jim died there on 23 April 1968. They had no issue.

2. Robert YOUNG, born at Winton Place, Beith, on 26 December 1885; he was aged 5, Scholar, with his father, 1891; aged 15, Railway Clerk, with father and step-mother, 1901; aged 25, Clerk, with father and Step-mother, 1911.
Robert was a Shipping Agent in Glasgow; he was residing at 78 Westmorland Street, Glasgow, in April 1730, when he informed his father's death; his last residence was 96 Croftpark, Glasgow.
Robert died at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow on 24 July 1933, aged 47, whilst under anaesthesia during an operation for cancer of the pharynx; he was buried in his wife's family plot at Beith Cemetery [M.I.].
Robert was married in Beith, 4 October 1911, to Agnes Henry MILLER, aged 25, Seamstress (daughter of James MILLER, Farmer at Over Hessilhead, and his wife Ann STIRRAT). She died on 14 March 1955, aged 68
Robert and Agnes had issue:
a. Robert YOUNG, born on 11 January 1912, and baptised at Crosshill United Free Church, Glasgow, 27 March; he married Jenny CAMPBELL, and had issue. I had the pleasure of visiting Robert and Jenny in Nottingham in 1983.
b. Agnes YOUNG, born in Glasgow, 12 January 1916; she married Jim BROWN, with issue.
c. James YOUNG, born in Glasgow, 15 March 1922; he married Marion BOYD, with issue.

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