{"id":1453,"date":"2024-11-11T16:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2024-11-11T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:47:48","slug":"alexander-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Wilson and his wife May Wiseman Crawford were living at No. 4 Malta Terrace in 1936 when their twin daughters were born prematurely at the Elsie Inglis Maternity Home. Tragically, Frances Wilson died on 16 March 1936 and May Jean Wilson died on 21 March 1936.<span id='easy-footnote-1-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Death announcements. Scotland. &lt;em&gt;Edinburgh Evening News&lt;\/em&gt;. WILSON. p. 16, col. 7. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk&lt;\/a&gt;: accessed 01 October 2024.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Wilson, a seedsman, married Annie May Wiseman Crawford in Edinburgh on 03 August 1935.<span id='easy-footnote-2-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Marriages (SR) Scotland. Newington, Edinburgh. 06 August 1935. WILSON, Alexander and CRAWFORD, Annie May Wiseman. 685\/6 208. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&lt;\/a&gt;: accessed 15 December 2023.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> They would have entered No. 4 shortly after their wedding. He was born in Anstruther, Fife in 1910, son of park keeper Alexander Wilson and Jean Parker Gilmour,<span id='easy-footnote-3-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Ibid.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and died in 1978.<span id='easy-footnote-4-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Deaths index (SR) Scotland. Newington, Edinburgh. 1978. WILSON, Alexander. 746\/ 407. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&lt;\/a&gt;: accessed 15 December 2023.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Anne May Wiseman Crawford was born in Edinburgh in 1912, daughter of furnaceman William Crawford and Frances Montgomery,<span id='easy-footnote-5-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Births index (SR) Scotland. St Giles, Edinburgh. 1912. CRAWFORD, Annie May Wiseman. 685\/4 695. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&lt;\/a&gt;: accessed 15 December 2023.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and died in 1977.<span id='easy-footnote-6-1453' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/awscott.co.uk\/wp\/2024\/11\/11\/alexander-wilson\/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-1453' title='&lt;small&gt;Deaths index (SR) Scotland. St Andrew, Edinburgh. 1977. WILSON, Anne May. 734\/ 231. &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&quot;&gt;https:\/\/scotlandspeople.gov.uk&lt;\/a&gt;: accessed 15 December 2023.&lt;\/small&gt;'><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Wilson and his wife May Wiseman Crawford were living at No. 4 Malta Terrace in 1936 when their twin daughters were born prematurely at the Elsie Inglis Maternity Home. Tragically, Frances Wilson died on 16 March 1936 and May Jean Wilson died on 21 March 1936. 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