Scott Family Notes

 

 

Scott Family Notes



*** Important Family Health Information ***
Three Scott-descended females have died of brain tumors:   George's wife Christina, George's granddaughter, and George's great-granddaughter.


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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:05:17 -0700 (PDT)
To: swades@rawbw.com
Subject: Re: Ella Belle Scott, b. 1880, married Charles A. Milne, d. 1935

Val has replied to your message on the Michigan Genealogy Forum:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/mi/messages/23539.html

1910 Michigan WAYNE 4-WD DETROIT
Series: T624 Roll: 681 Page: 177
May 4th. 744 Fourth Ave.

Milne, Charles A. 33 First marriage Married 8 years. Canada/English 
Canada/English Canada/English Immigrated to U.S. 1879 City Engineer

Milne, Ella B. wife 29 First marriage Married 8 years. Canada/English 
England/English Scotland/English Mother of 1, 1 living Immigrated 1874

Milne, Isabelle B. daughter 7 Michigan Canada Canada

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I may have found Ella's family, then:

1881 Canadian Census
Census Place: Pointe Edward, Lambton, Ontario
Source: FHL Film 1375914  NAC C-13278  Dist 179  SubDist P  Page 19  Family 99

Name        Marital Gender Ethnic Age Birthplace Occupation  Religion
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Geo SCOTT         M   Male English 32     England  Yard Master       CM
Christina SCOTT   M   Female Scottish 33  Scotland             Presbyterian
John E SCOTT          Male Scottish  7    O           Presbyterian
Alice SCOTT           Female Scottish  5  O           Presbyterian
Eva SCOTT             Female Scottish 5   O           Presbyterian
Agness SCOTT          Female  Scottish 2  O           Presbyterian
Ella Belle SCOTT      Female  Scottish  ; 6m O   

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I also found the following at Oxford County Library - Ingersoll Ontario:

A Photo showing the Canadian Infantry Section, 4th Division, 3rd Echelon, British Expeditionary Force, 39 Rue Boucher de Perthes, Rouen, France  - 1918

BACK ROW: [from left] M. Sparks [?], E. E. Turton, H. Collins, A. J. Blake, J. W. Connell, A. Thiselton 
MIDDLE ROW: [from left] A. S. Blakemore, W. Fish, unknown, George Scott, L. G. Diggs, C. P. A. Clark 

FRONT ROW: [from left] Cyril Bridges, M. H. Laurence [?], J. M. Anderson, J. E. Rodsward [?]. C. L. Harris [?], H. Raine. 
 Photograph courtesy of Mr. George Willits
Photography by Belville 

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Who was the George Scott in the WWI photo above?  Was he a grandchild of the George Scott born in 1849? 

Christina Monro Scott, wife of George Scott, died in an insane asylum in Canada of a brain tumor. She had resided at the asylum from about 1893 - 1897, succumbing to the tumor at age 49.

During Christina's stay in the asylum, George hired a female housekeeper to help look after his nine children. A relationship developed between George and the housekeeper, and she bore his son. There was a notice in the paper of the birth of this child. Perhaps the locals had thought that Christina had already passed away?

Christina Monro Scott's granddaughter, Dorothy Collins, was the next in the family who died of a brain tumor. Two years later, Dorothy's niece, Judy Horenkamp, also died of a brain tumour. Judy was 49 years old when she died - the same age as Christina Monro Scott when she died of the same thing.
Spellings of names
The name Christina was sometimes spelled as Christena in this family.

The middle name of Monro was also spelled as Monroe in this family.
This Scott family originated in Liverpool, England. They owned property on the waterfront of the River Mersey.
It is rumoured that Christina Monro Scott, or one of her daughters was a Lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria of England.
It is rumoured that the Scott family were related to the famous Dr. David Livingstone; missionary to Africa.

Dr. David Livingstone was the first white man to discover Victoria Falls. The Falls border Zimbabwe and Zambia on the Zambezi River, and is called Mosi-oa-Tunya (the smoke that thunders), by the locals.
David Livingstone gave the Falls an English name, calling them Victoria Falls after Her Majesty Queen Victoria of England.
Although born in Blantyre, Scotland (near Glasgow), Livingstone received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow and then left Scotland to join the London Missionary Society. The society sent him to Southern Africa to convert Africans to Christianity, and to try to stop the practice of selling Africans captured in local wars as slaves overseas.








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