Census for John and Christina Wares Georgeson Household

	UK 1841	UK 1851	UK 1861
Source
Index Name	Georgeson	Georgeson	Georgeson
Address	Occumster, Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	Occumster, Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	Occumster, Latheron, Caithness, Scotland
Husband	John, 60, married, farmer, born in Caithness, Scotland	John, 67, married, shoe-maker & farmer of 8 acres, born in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	John, 80, married, farmer, born in Clyth, Caithness
Wife	Christina, 55, born in Caithness, Scotland	Christy, 65, shoe-maker's wife, born in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland	Christina, 78, born in Clych, Caithness, Scotland
Daughter	Donald and Elizabeth Georgeson Gow
Son	Donald, 25, born in Caithness, Scotland
Son	James, 20, born in Caithness, Scotland
Daughter	Johan, 15, born in Caithness, Scotland	Johan, 26, employed on the farm, born in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland
Daughter		Georgina, 23, scholar, born in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland
Son	Farquar, 12, born in Caithness, Scotland	Farquar, 21, apprentice shoe-maker, born in Latheron, Caithness, Scotland

From the Gow Family Book:

	Alexander Georgeson was born in 1750. He married Elizabeth Gow in 1776.
William Gow, a crofter, married Catherine Forbes in 1779 in Latherton, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands.	John Georgeson, 1779-1853, married Christina Wares, 1780-1864. They had 10 children, the oldest being Elizabeth. John and Christina are buried in Mid Clyth cemetery in Caithness.
Donald Gow was born in 1809 in Scotland. He married Elizabeth Georgeson, who was born in 1810 in Latherton, Caithness, Scotland. They had three children: Dollina in 1841, William in 1842 at Lybster, Caithness, and John in 1844. Donald was a cooper. He died in 1859 at Willowbrook, Wick, Scotland. Elizabeth died in 1896 at Willowbrook		James Sutherland was born in Loth, Sutherland, in the Scottish Highlands, southwest of Caithness. He was a sea captain. He married Margaret Murray. Their daughter Ann was born in 1842 at Helmsdale, Sutherland.
William Gow married Ann Sutherland in 1863 in Pulteneytown, Wick, Caithness, Scotland. William was a cooper, like his father. William and Ann had 16 children, eight of whom survived to have families. The family started in Wick, then moved to Edinburgh, Scotland from 1867 to 1872, and on to Seacombe, England, which is across the Mersey River opposite Liverpool. William and Ann had 16 children: Donald, Margaret Sutherland, Jessie Ann, James Sutherland, William Sutherland, Elizabeth Georgeson, David Joseph, Jospeh (?), Margaret Ann, Christina, and George. Eight survived to have families.
Their son Donald Gow was born in 1864 on Francis Street, Pulteneytown, Wick, Scotland. Donald "Dan" Gow marrried Roseanne "Rose" Murray in England on May 7, 1882. They lived in Wallasey, Chester, England. Wallasey is situated at the northeast of the Wirral Peninsula, on the western side of the River Mersey and adjoining the Irish Sea. In the 1891 census, they were living north of Liverpool less than a mile from the docks on the east side of the River Mersey. In 1895, they moved to New York, where they lived in Manhattan, the Bronx, and ultimately Flushing, Queens. Dan worked for the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. in the power plant for over 40 years. He died December 5, 1933 in Queens. Dan and Rose had five children: William George, born in 1886 Ann Sutherland, born in Seacombe, England on January 13, 1888 Loretta (Laurette), Mary Catherine (Mae), born in Wallasey, Chester on April 20 1895, a few weeks before the family emigrated to New York. She married Charles Byrne in Queens, New York, and they had five children, including William X. Byrne. Helen Louise.

From various sources:

The parents of Elizabeth Georgeson Gow parents were John Georgeson, 1779-1853(?) and Christina Wares, 1780-1864. They had 10 children, the oldest being Elizabeth, who married Donald Gow before the first available census, 1841. John and Christina are buried in Mid Clyth cemetery in Caithness.

John Georgeson had two occupations. He was a farmer of 8 acres, which was known as a crofter. He was also a shoe-maker. His youngest son Farquar was an apprentice shoe-maker in the 1851 census.

Map showing the coast of Sutherland and Caithness on the North Sea in the Scottish Highlands. From lower left to upper right: Helmsdale, Latherton, Lybster, Mid Clyth, and Wick. Loth is near Helmsdale. Pulteneytown is part of Wick.

Hill o' Many Stanes. A south-facing hillside overlooking the North Sea at Mid Clyth, Caithness, in the Scottish Highlands. 200 upright stones, none more than a metre high, believed to be a relic of Bronze Age times. Similar rows of much taller stones are found in Brittany. Photo taken by Ron McKinnon in 1996. Source: Wikipedia.