by duck » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:45 am
On the basis that Robert K was in sixth form ( do we call it form in Scotland? ) in 1899, doing a search for Robert K McMillan on the 1901 census for boys between 15 and 25 turns up only one in the whole of Scotland!
On the 1891 census , our Robert was at Leslie Road as in 1901. In the house the night of the census were Robert, his father aged 44, Minister, born Ayr; Robert K, born Renfrew Strathbungo ; scholar, Margaret Alslon (?) wife's 80 year old aunt, private means, born Hamilton, and Isa Campbell, 45 year old Gaelic and English speaking cook from Oban.
In 1901, the mother Mary, aged 49 born in Wishaw was present as was another son James W, 19, coalmaster's clerk born Lanarkshire Strathbungo; Robert K now stated as having been born Lanarkshire Strathbungo, not Renfrew, and now elevated to Arts Student ; daughter May H, 6, scholar, born Pollokshields and a new cook, 21, another Gaelic and English speaker , this time from Harris, Western Hebrides (sic)
Looking to understand why 1n 1891 Robert was born in Renfrew and yet in Lanarkshire in 1901 I found this on Wikipedia:
Strathbungo lay just inside Govan parish, on its boundary with Cathcart parish, and at one time the line of Allison Street and Nithsdale Street formed the boundary or 'march' between the counties of Lanark and Renfrew.