Birth: 1 April 1866 10:57 pm Morebattle Tofts, Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Father: James Lauder 1840-1887
Mother: Jessie Hutchison c1839-1897
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 31 Mar 1899 No. 7 Crackheath Terrace, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Margaret Hogarth c1874-1910
Marriage: 30 April 1912 Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
Wife: Janet Miller McCraw 1874-1934
Death: 6 April 1935 Kersknowe, Eckford, Roxburghshire, Scotland, UK
By Margaret
James Hutchison Lauder 1902-1980
George Lauder 1904-a1911
William Lauder 1905-a1911
Henry Knox Lauder 1907-1974
By Janet
Robert McCraw Lauder 1912-1994
John Thomas Lauder 1915-2002
Entry in Ancestry Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 for William Lauder born 1 April 1866 in Morebattle, Roxburgh parents James Lauder and Jessie Hutchison.
Entry in the Register of Births for William Lauder in 1866 in Morebattle (801/ 9). "Page 3 1866 Births in the Parish of Morebattle in the County of Roxburgh [... No.] 9 William Lauder 1866 April First 10 h 57 m PM [at] Morebattle Tofts Parish of Morebattle [parents] James Lauder ? Jessie Lauder M.S. Hutchison [married] 1863 December 1st Bught Know Parish of Humbie [informant] James Lauder father [on] 1866 April 11th at Morebattle".
In the 1871 census as William Lander (sic - in the index) aged 5, born in Morebattle, Roxburghshire, and living with his parents (James and Jessie) and two sisters (Helen and Mary Ann) in a cottage in Morebattle, Roxburghshire.
In the 1881 census as William Lauder aged 15, born in Morebattle, Roxburghshire, an agricultural labourer and living with his parents (James and Jessie), brother (Robert) and two sisters (Helen and Mary Ann) at Wester Wooden Cottages, Eckford, Roxburghshire.
He was present at and the informant of his fathers's death on 11 July 1887 at Wester Wooden, Eckford.
In the 1891 census as William Lauder aged 25, born in Morebattle, Roxburghshire, single, an agricultural labourer, and living with his widowed mother (Jessie), brother (Robert), two sisters (Hellen and Mary Ann) and nephew? (George) at West Wooden, Eckford, Roxburgh.
He was present at and the informant of his mother's death on 11 October 1897 at Roxburgh Mill.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for William Lauder and Margaret Hogarth in 1899 in Kelso (793/ 7). "1899 Marriages in the Parish of Kelso in the County of Roxburgh. [No.] 7 1899 on the Thirtyfirst day of March at No. 7 Crackheath Terrace Kelso After Banns according to the Forms of the Free Church of Scotland William Lauder Farm Steward (Bachelor) [aged] 32 [of] ? Hill Roxburgh [parents] James Lauder Farn Servant (Deceased) [and] Jessie Lauder M.S. Hutchison (Deceased), [and] Margaret Hogarth Domestic Servant (Spinster) [aged] 25 [of] No. 7 Checkheath Terrace Kelso [parents] George Hogarth Engine Attendent [and] Ellen Hogarth M.S. Knox or Knoc Thomas Yate Witness Bessie Knoc Witness [registered] 1899 April 3rd Kelso".
In the 1901 census as William Lauder aged 34, born in Scotland, an estate bailiff, and living with his wife (Margaret) and a boarder (John G Winspear aged 30, born in Knayton, Yorkshire, married and a farm baliff) in Arden cum Ardenside, Yorkshire. (Arden is in Hawnby parish 7.5 miles NW of Helmsley).
His four children were born in Helmsley from 1902 to 1907.
His wife died at 4pm on 2 April 1910 at Hendersyde Farm, Edam, Roxbughshire where he was a farm steward.
In the 1911 census as William Lauder aged 44, born in Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland, widowed, a roadman for the County Council, and living with four sons (George H, Henry, James H and William) and a servant (Margaret Robinson aged 26, single and born in Haddingtonshire, Scotland) in two rooms with windows at Lauder Cottage, Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
His two sons were born in Sprouston in 1912 and 1915.
Entry in the Register of Marriages for William Lauder and Janet Millar McCraw in 1912 in Sprouston (807/ 6). "Page 3 1912 Marriages in the Parish of Sprouston in the County of Roxburgh [...No. 6] 1912 on the Thirtieth day of April in Sprouston After Banns According to the Forms of the Church of Scotland (signed) William Lauder Road Surfaceman (Widower) [aged] 46 [parents] James Lauder Farm Servant (Deceased) Jessie Lauder M.S. Hutchison (Deceased) [and] (signed) Janet Millar McCraw Housekeeper (Spinster) [aged] 37 [parents] Hugh McCraw Farm Servant Elizabeth McCraw M.S. Wilson (Deceased) (signed George Lauder Witness Elizabeth Wilson McCraw 1912 May 1st Sprouston.
In the 1921 census as William Lauder aged 55 years 3 months, born in Morebattle, Roxburgh, a gardener for Geo S C Watson farmer, four dependent children, and living with his wife (Janet), five sons (George H, James H, Henry K, John J and Robert M C) and (step)daughter (Elizabeth J) in three rooms at Farm Cottages, Lundenlaw, Sprouston, Roxburgh and Selkirk.
His wife died on 13 December 1934 in Kersknowe, Eckford, the informant being Henry K Lauder Stepson.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for William Lauder in 1935 aged 69 in Eckford (787/a 4). "Page 2 Deaths in the District of Eckford in the County of Roxburgh [No.] 1 William Lauder Farm Labourer Widower of 1st Margaret Hogarth 2nd Janet Millar McCraw [on] 1935 April Sixth at Kersknowe [aged] 69 years [parents] James Lauder Form-servant (deceased) [and] Jessie Lauder M.S. Hutchison (deceased) of Encephalitis [informant] James H Lauder (Present) [of] 10 Roxburgh St Kelso [on] 1935 April 6th At Eckford."
There are twenty two entries in Ancestry Family Trees for William Lauder. Some include a daughter Elizabeth born 9 October 1910 - she was born Elizabeth Janet Millar McGraw born 9 October 1910 in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, mother Janet Millar McGraw and illegitimate, a domestic servant, but on her marriage registration to George Arthur Galbraith on 5 April 1940 in Eckford she gives her father as William Lauder farm servant deceased. This is unlikely to be correct because in 1911 census she was still living with her mother in Dunbar.
William Lauder was the father of James Hutchison Lauder, husband of Helen Purves, first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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