Person: Martha Baxter Sage

Birthday: 1836
Birthplace: Ireland
Mother: Catherine Francis
Father: Joseph Sage 1802
Sex: female

• JAMES SAGE 1855 born 10 January 1855 in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
• Married to DAVID MCGARVIE, 8 January 1864 in High Church, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
• Died 1888 in Dunoon, Argyle
• Picture: Descendants Unknown Father or Visitor Sages
• Picture: Descendants All Sages in Scotland
• Picture: Descendants All Sages in Scotland Verbose
• Picture: Descendants Irish Sage's

Marriage Cert Banns for of the Free Church of Scotland, marry the 8 Jan 1864. David McGarvie made his Mark, Shoemaker Journeyman, age 28, lived 52 Tobago St., Glasgow. Parents Alexander McGarvie, Shoemaker Journeyman, and, Rachel Edgar, Deceased.
Martha B Sage, Steam Loom Weaver, Spinster, age 28. Lived at 12 Tobago Street, Glasgow. Parents Joseph Sage, Labourer, and, Catherine Sage, MS Francis Witness was Joseph Sage and Jane Sage.
The Joseph seems to be a new Joseph.
On Sarah it is clearly Catherine Francis.

In the 1881 census David McGarvie age 42 and Martha , age 46, live at Wellington St., School Buildings, Dunoon and Kilmum, Argyle. David is a Shoemaker Journeyman. They have a child Rachel McGarvie born 23 June 1867 in Bridgeton, Glasgow, another child Catherine 1 Sept 1865 is recorded, fate unknown. The places of Birth are given as Ireland for Martha and Maybole, Ayr for David.
David has three sisters recorded in Maybole but his birth is not. They were born in 1830, 1832, 1836. So David probably actually born in 1835.
The fate of James is also unknown. However someone had a child Mary Jane Edgar Sage in 1886 as she died in 1927 age 41 at Largs, parentage not known.
A Rachel Sage also died in 1928 age 60 in Hamilton, born 1868, another born and died in East Kilbride in 1870. Rachel Edgar is the only other known Rachel.

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