Albert CARDY [6116]
(Bef 1805-)
Elizabeth LANDELL [6117]
(Bef 1805-)
William CARDY [4658]
(Abt 1825-1888)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Isabella MACKENZIE [6178]

  • William CARDY [6180]
  • Agnes CARDY [6179]
  • John CARDY [6181]
  • Albert CARDY [6189]
  • Robert CARDY [6190]
2. Ann BOWIE [307]

William CARDY [4658]

  • Born: Abt 1825, Johnstone, RFW
  • Marriage (1): Isabella MACKENZIE [6178]
  • Marriage (2): Ann BOWIE [307] on 9 May 1859 in Calton District, Glasgow 1
  • Died: 3 Feb 1888, Poorhouse, Govan, Lanark, Scotland aged about 63 2

  Noted events:

William worked as a common labourer, iron foundry worker.

30 Mar 1851: not found in Scottish census.

9 May 1859: William was married from 116, Glen Street, Glasgow (age 32, widower). 1

7 Apr 1861 census: age 36, common labourer, head of household at Govan, LKS. 3

2 Apr 1871 census: age 45, iron foundry labourer, lodger of William Bolland at 3, Thomsons Lane, Glasgow, LKS. William Cardy (45) and his eldest son, also William Cardy (20) were in lodgings. Two other children, John and Agnes, were also in lodgings about a mile away.
I can find no trace of William's second wife, Ann Bowie, in the 1871 census.

3 Apr 1881 census: age 54, "William Cairdie", foundry labourer, pauper inmate at Abbey Poorhouse and Lunatic Asylum, Crow Road, Paisley, Renfrew, Scotland.


William married Isabella MACKENZIE [6178] [MRIN: 1485]. (Isabella MACKENZIE [6178] was born about 1823 and died in 1858 in Calton District, Glasgow.)


William next married Ann BOWIE [307] [MRIN: 1454], daughter of James BOWIE [9492] and Jane STEWART [9493], on 9 May 1859 in Calton District, Glasgow.1 (Ann BOWIE [307] was born about 1822 in Dunblane, PER, Scotland and died on 1 Aug 1889 in Combination Poorhouse, Stirling, STI, Scotland 4.)

Sources

1 Glasgow Calton Marriages 1859 644-4/191 image.
9th May 1859 [place illegible] after F.C. banns;
WILLIAM CARDY (x), 32 widower, labourer, 116 Glen Street, Glasgow
parents Robert Cardy labourer; Elizabeth Cardy ms Landell
ANN BOWIE (x) 35 widow, 116 Glen Street, Glasgow
parents James Bowie maltman, deceased; Jane Bowie ms Stewart decd
witnesses James Noron [?], Jane Corrie, M. Mitchell.
[This marriage was bigamous - Jane Bowie's husband Henry Porter was still alive].

2 Glasgow Govan Deaths 1888 648-?/????.
1888 February 3rd. WILLIAM CARDY died in Govan Poorhouse, aged 65 of cardiac disease. Same Cardy as married Ann Bowie/Porter, as corroborated by parent details on death register entry. Also confirms that William was widower of Isabella McKenzie [information from Ken Stevens, a Mather descendant].

3 1861 census of Scotland, Renfrew, Volume 644/9 Tradeston (Govan), enumeration district (ED) 17, page 5, schedule no. 21½, household of William Cardy;
Cardy 36 M common labourer, Johnstone Renfrewsh.
Ann Cardy 39 M wife, Dunblane Perthshire
Wm Cardy 12 son, Glasgow
Agnes Cardy 10 daughter, Glasgow
John Cardy 7 son, Glasgow
(children of William's first wife, Isabella Mackenzie)

4 Stirling Deaths 1889 490/176 image (Ann Porter).
ANN PORTER 66, widow of Henry Porter carpenter
died 1st August 1889 at Combination Poorhouse, Stirling
parents James Bowie, maltman, deceased; Jane Bowie ms Stewart, deceased
bronchitis 8 days, certified; informant I. Gow, gardener, Combination Poorhouse, Stirling.

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