Margrate Houston 1847-1929
I'm in search of any sources to prove who the parents and/or grandparents of Margrate Eliza Houston (Jan. 1 1847 Edinburgh Scot.-Apr.17 1929 Calif.) are, also known as Maggie.She is my great grandmother and my late father's paternal grandma. Her death certificate shows her mother's maiden name as "Cameron" and father Alexander Houston. Family notes state her mother's maiden name may have been Campbell.
I have a letter to my father from a relative stating Margrate came to the US to meet her husband, Mr. Wilson, after their firstborn, Frederick was born, and found her husband had died. Her baby died in New York and buried at the Soft Pillow cemetery, per family notes. Where is Soft Pillow?
Family notes say she came to New York in 1862 and left for California in 1866 via ship through Nicaragua to San Francisco with a cousin, Elizabeth Layton (husband,Thomas Layton), she called "Auntie" because she was much older. By 1868 she was married to my great grandfather. If these dates are correct she waswidowed with child by age 15. Various census say she immigrated from 1858,1864, and 1865.
I have a photograph of Margrate taken in Brooklyn she appears 13 to 16 years old. I would also like to link her cousin onto the family tree. What is Elizabeth Layton's maiden name? She is in the census with Thomas living with a 14 year old boy named George Coburn. Who is George? So many questions.