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George Robertson

Clan Crest Robertson - courtesy of www.scotclans.com

Is this our Robertson crest. I found online while searching in Glenshee, Perthshire, Scotland for parents of George Robertson our great great grandfather. George left Scotland probably around 1830 and made his way to Waterford, Ireland where he married Barbara Sharp about 1838. They had three daughters; Jane, Barbara and Helena. November 17, 1856 they arrived in New York arriving on the De Witt Clinton Ship which departed from Liverpool, England. Their origin was Ireland


Crieff google map
  • #388 George Robertson 45 Carpenter
  • #389 Barbara Robertson 40
  • #390 Jane Robertson 17
  • #391 Barbara Robertson 13
  • #392 Helena (Ellen) Robertson 7

  • Thanks to a Find A Grave enthusiast I have found the Robertson sisters all buried together in the Comrie Plot at Springvale Cemetery at E. Providence, Rhode Island. It is nice to know they are all together in eternity. I am also full of questions about why Barbara went off to Scotland to live for several years and then made the journey to Balclutha, New Zealand for 8 years?


    It was in Manhattan, New York that daughter Barbara married to Thomas Warden who had immigrated from Birmingham, England to New York. Jane Robertson was her sister's attendant. Thomas Humphery served as best man. At the time of their marriage Thomas was living on Greenwich Street and Barbara was living on Bleeker Street ; the two streets are separated by Hudson Street