Margaret was born Margaret Athol Foster in Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, on February 14, 1826. Her parents were Archibald Foster, a mason, and Mary Mearns.
Margaret immigrated to the United States in 1834 with her parents, her older sister, Ellen (Helen), and her younger sisters, Agnes, Mary Ann, and Jane. In Scotland, the family name was spelled Foster, and in the United States, it was typically spelled, Forrester. The family settled in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where Archibald worked as a stone cutter, and a stone mason.
Margaret married James Marshall about 1847. Margaret and James' children were Mary Marshall, James Marshall, Archibald Forrester Marshall/Gibson, Marion (Marshall/Gibson) Stroud, and Emma Jane Marshall/Gibson.
James Marshall Sr. died before 1860, as by the 1860 Census, Margaret had remarried to William Gibson. Margaret's children with William Gibson were John Knox Gibson and Alexander Taylor Gibson. William Gibson had 5 other children from his first marriage to Maria Euwing: Andrew, Robert, Margaret, William, and Mary.
In the 1860 and 1870 US Federal Census for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, all of Margaret's children with James Marshall used the surname, Marshall. By the 1880 Census, Margaret was twice widowed, and her children, Archibald, Marion, and Emma Jane, like their mother and younger half siblings, were using the surname Gibson.
William Gibson died May 9, 1868, but his will was not discovered until November 1880.
Margaret died September 29, 1908, in Allegheny County, where she had lived from the time she was about 7 years old, and where she raised her families.
~ April 2023
Margaret was born Margaret Athol Foster in Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, on February 14, 1826. Her parents were Archibald Foster, a mason, and Mary Mearns.
Margaret immigrated to the United States in 1834 with her parents, her older sister, Ellen (Helen), and her younger sisters, Agnes, Mary Ann, and Jane. In Scotland, the family name was spelled Foster, and in the United States, it was typically spelled, Forrester. The family settled in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where Archibald worked as a stone cutter, and a stone mason.
Margaret married James Marshall about 1847. Margaret and James' children were Mary Marshall, James Marshall, Archibald Forrester Marshall/Gibson, Marion (Marshall/Gibson) Stroud, and Emma Jane Marshall/Gibson.
James Marshall Sr. died before 1860, as by the 1860 Census, Margaret had remarried to William Gibson. Margaret's children with William Gibson were John Knox Gibson and Alexander Taylor Gibson. William Gibson had 5 other children from his first marriage to Maria Euwing: Andrew, Robert, Margaret, William, and Mary.
In the 1860 and 1870 US Federal Census for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, all of Margaret's children with James Marshall used the surname, Marshall. By the 1880 Census, Margaret was twice widowed, and her children, Archibald, Marion, and Emma Jane, like their mother and younger half siblings, were using the surname Gibson.
William Gibson died May 9, 1868, but his will was not discovered until November 1880.
Margaret died September 29, 1908, in Allegheny County, where she had lived from the time she was about 7 years old, and where she raised her families.
~ April 2023
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