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I'm researching George
Donaldson. Information will be posted here as it becomes available.
Articles, newspaper
clippings, letters, family stories, etc are welcomed.
Friends
of the Glasgow Necropolis - where Donaldson is interred
George Square web cam: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/AboutGlasgow/WebCams/
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Parents
and Family:
James
Donaldson, father Feb. 5, 1769 - Died 1884
James
marries Mary Hamilton Nov. 30, 1795
Mary
Hamilton, mother About 1774 - Died 1826
Siblings:
Ann
Donaldson Dec. 11, 1796 - Died 1830
James
Donaldson Nov. 12, 1798 - Died 1838
Mary
Donaldson Jul. 12, 1801
John
Donaldson Jun. 25, 1804 - Died 1877
Janet
Donaldson Jul. 25, 1806 - Died 1834
Robert
Donaldson Oct. 27, 1808 - Died 1885
George
Donaldson Jul 18, 1811 - Died Sept 17, 1898
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- 1811,
July 18, Born, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
- 1814
family moved to George Square, Glasgow Scotland – families
ancestral home
- Married
Janet Dick (born Sept. 9, 1810)
- 1826
mother, Mary Hamilton, died
- 1842
Janet Dick (wife) Died
- 1844
father, James Donaldson died
- unknown
– imprisoned, bribed his way out, sailed to America with help of
friend, Charles Rayburn.
- 1850
visited Mammoth Cave, Kentucky – “christened the Scotchman’s
Trap”
- 1865
September 21 -
purchased 445 acres, house, water case and mills from James C Lynn
for $3,500
- 1865
November 6 – purchased 80 acres from John L. Mayden. Paid $1,250
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- Wilson monument erected
- 1882
- left spring mill for last time moved to Alabama
- 1882
settled in Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama
- 1882
December – Shawnee Cottage robbed and burned
- 1883
September - hand bill offering Shawnee property for sale
- 1870
value of property and real estate set at $4,600 by census takers
- 1897
- returned to
Paisley, Scotland
- 1898, September 17
- died at age 87 – after 3 day illness
- Interred
Glasgow Necropolis
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