Euphemia Robertson
5x Great-grandmother of Colin Manson (ahnentafel #233, MMFMFFM)
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ℹ Added from a recordHer death entry (Evie and Rendall, Orkney, 1879) gives 9 December 1879 at Vinquoy, parish of Evie, aged 73, widow of Thomas Wood, seaman (merchant service). It names her parents as George Robertson, fisherman, and Rebecca Anderson. Aged 73 gives a birth about 1806 and her family seems to have been Orkney people, so the Lanarkshire birth in the tree is doubtful.
Born
About 1803, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died
9 December 1879, Vinquoy, parish of Evie, Orkney
Documents
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Death, 1879
Source: ScotlandsPeople downloads, 29 October 2026 — ScotlandsPeople_D1879_016_00_0006Z.pdf
Entry 16. Entry 17 (Peter Rendall) is unrelated.
What the records say
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Death of Euphemia Wood, 1879
Statutory Deaths 016/00 0016 · United Parishes of Evie and Rendall, Orkney, 1879, page 6, entry 16
Died
9 December 1879, about 3 am, at Vinquoy, parish of Evie
Name and status
Euphemia Wood, widow of Thomas Wood, seaman (merchant service)
Age
73 years
Father
George Robertson, fisherman (deceased)
Mother
Rebecca Robertson, maiden surname Anderson (deceased)
Cause of death
Acute bronchitis, 20 days. Certified by John Gibson MB CM
Informant
John Robertson, nephew, present
Registered
16 December 1879, Evie, Alex. Robertson, registrar
⚠ Where was she born?The tree has her born about 1803 in Lanarkshire. Age 73 gives 1806, and her father was a fisherman with a nephew still in Orkney, which points to an Orkney family. Her children were born in Lanarkshire from about 1820, and she married Thomas Wood in Dundee in 1817, so she may have left Orkney young.
ℹ Her husbandThomas Wood is described as a seaman in the merchant service and was dead by December 1879.
ℹ Other entries on the pageEntry 17 (Peter Rendall) is unrelated.
Spouse & children
Spouse — married 16 December 1817, Dundee, Angus, Scotland
Children