1777/82 - aft 1860
Scotland - Pennsylvania
All we have for George are a couple of census records and the marriage records of two of his children. (The 1841 census was brought to my attention by another (duh) George Scott.)
Census:
1841 Cumberland County, Stanwix Parish Dist 5a - Eskdale 100
Etterby Twp - George Scott 48 - teacher of fencing S
Margaret 40 E
Jane 18 S
Walter 8
Mary Richardson 18 female servant S
1850 Pennsylvania Allegheny Indiana p. 61 - 11 Sept - l. 32
George Scott 73m merchant Scotland
Margaret 62 England
Walter 18 blacksmith “?
1860 Pennsylvania Allegheny Tarentum p. 484 (44) - 27 June
George Scott 78m tailor $400 Scotland
Margaret 66 ?spinner??? England
Marriages:
#173 Powell, John W laborer res Tarentum b. E. Deer Twp s/o Joseph & Catherine
m 21 Mar 1853 Tarantum J-P - Gaskell, Jane d/o George & Margaret Scott
#280 Scott, Walter laborer res Tarentum b. England s/o George & Margaret
m 23 Aug 1854 Tarentum J-P - Brown, Emeline d/o Moses & Sarah Brown
Births, marriages & deaths of Allegheny Co., Pa., 1852-1854
abstracted by K.T.H. McFarland. (F157.A4 M28 1999)
So this is the narrative I have constructed upon this flimsy frame:
George Scott was born in the late 1770-early 1780s in Scotland - or maybe as late as 1793. Somewhere in Scotland, we’re not sure. (Probably one of the border counties.)
At some time he married Margaret Unknown. They had at least two children:
Jane born ~1823
Walter born ~1833
Cumberland is a border county, and they seem to have moved around a bit. George and daughter Jane were born in Scotland, wife Margaret and son Walter were born in England. [It is possible that he married twice - lived with first wife and daughter Jane in Scotland, moved to England after her death and married the English Margaret. That might explain why there weren't more children.]
Their son Walter told a census worker that he had emigrated in 1847. I have not found a ship list with all of them on it, although I did find this (in the Famine Ships series):
Ship: M Livingston 21 Oct 1847 from Liverpool I think it was the Mary Livingston
Scott, Mgt 64 f unk
Walter 15 none
If these are our people, then possibly George had gone over earlier - and possibly Jane would be found under her 1st husband’s name. But it is more likely that I haven’t found them yet.
I have no idea why they ended up in western Pennsylvania, but there are plenty of other Scotts there, many of whom had been there for a long time. So - possibly brothers, or uncles, or other kinsmen had preceded them. Possibly George had sons who emigrated there before him.
In 1850, there were 524 Scotts in Allegheny County. Most of the foreign born ones were from Ireland. The only Scottish born ones were George, Eliza Scott (25) whose husband or father Robert (55) had been born in Ireland, and Alexr Scott 22, a carpenter. Eliza and Robert lived in Lawrenceville; Alexr lived in Birmingham.
The only Scotts in the same township as George (in 1850) were James Scott 50 Ireland laborer, and DC Scott, who was on the same page as George:
line 22 - DC Scott 31 physician Pa / Anna M 26 / Alexr 8 / Joseph 5 / James M 2
?J?W Snowden 20 physician - all b. Pa
The only Scott in Tarentum township (which was where his 2 known children got married) in 1850 was:
p. 47b = James Scott 29 carpenter / Mary 30 / Malinda 10 / James A 6 / John C 1 - all Pa
(and on p. 49a was daughter Jane’s future husband)
p. 49a = Joseph Powell 56 / Catherine 53 / John W 35 laborer / Oliver W 10 - all Pa
Tarentum starts on p. 47a by the way
And finally, acting on the idea that George might have a son named after him, the other Georges in Allegheny County in 1850 were:
240 McKeesport - 20 carpenter Pa
030 W Deer - 40 teacher Ire
Pittsburgh - 456, 323, 307
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