Re: [Torrens List] Re: Scottish Torrance data

[ROBERT MORRISON <r.morrison11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Judy.

I have been dormant in respect of my Torrens line for a long time but 
seeing your email has awakened my interest. I joined the List a few 
years back after I made contact with Derek Torrens, my 3rd cousin.  It 
would appear  from your information that we are also related.  I believe 
you are my half 4th cousin once removed.  I am related through Samuel 
Torrens, born 1759.  He was my 4th great grandfather and I am descended 
from his first marriage to a Miss Wilson.  I have no idea of her 
firstname.   I see that Samuel was your 3rd great grandfather by Mary 
Ann Smyth his second wife.
Briefly, I was born in Greenock, Scotland.  My mother was Elizabeth 
Torrance Archibald named after her grandmother Elizabeth Torrens who 
married James Archibald of Culnaman.  They married in Greenock in 1880.  
Elizabeth Torrens was the sister of James Gilmore Torrens, Derek's great 
grandfather.  There is evidence of  other Archibalds and Torrenses 
having come over from that part of Londonderry.  They appear in the 1881 
Census returns for Greenock.  It was relatively easy then as there were 
steamships arriving and departing daily from the Clyde.   Employment was 
readily available in the shipyards and sugar refineries.  Interestingly 
the spelling of 'Torrance' was used instead of 'Torrens'. The 1881 
Census returns also show a family of Stewarts from Ireland with an 
Archibald described as a nephew living with them.

Robert Morrison


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