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David Thom of Troon, help please. **solved**

 
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Kenneth Morrison



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:36 pm    Post subject: David Thom of Troon, help please. **solved** Reply with quote

This man is named on the Troon War Memorial.
Has anyone run across him?

THOM, D.
Rank:Private
Service No:13329
Date of Death:13/05/1916
Regiment/Service:Royal Scots Fusiliers 7th Bn.
Grave Reference:V. C. 48.
Cemetery:BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
Additional Information:Husband of Margaret Cowan Thom, of 1, Collinan Terrace, Gillis St., Troon, Ayrshire.
The headstone schedule has "To memory ever dear" Inserted by Wife and Daughters with the name as Mrs. M. Cowan and he same address in Troon.

Soldiers effects has Widow Margaret I. and there is a marriage in 1920 between Margaret Isabel Thom and John McClunie Cowan (in Glasgow) so it looks like she re-married.

So far so good - but I cannot trace David Thom.
SDGW has him born Dumfries, resident Troon, enlisted Ayr - and the D&G Standard reports that he was the son of A.Thom the Station-master at Tillietudlem Station in South Lanarkshire.
I assume that this is the same Alexander Thom (age 36 born Dumfries) who was the station-master at Clelland Station, Shotts in 1901.
Also there was his wife Barbara 36 and David 5 and James 3 - but both children born in Bothwell. (c.1896 & c.1898)
Alexander Thom and Barbara McLean married in 1889 in Dalziel, Lanarkshire
Given the time between this marriage and the births and that I cannot find birth details for either boy, I'm beginning to wonder if they were adopted?????

I really could do with some fresh eyes on this please.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've partially resolved this one.
The son of the Stationmaster was another David Thom who also died of wounds in 1916 Rolling Eyes

THOM, D.
Rank:Private
Service No:23315
Date of Death:29/09/1916
Age:21
Regiment/Service:King's Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference:XI. D. 15.
Cemetery:ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Additional Information:Son of Alexander and Barbara Thom, of Station House, Tillietudlem, Kirkmuirhill, Lanarkshire. Native of Tillietudlem.

His father (Alexander) and his grandfather were Dumfries men but the man on the Dumfries memorial is PTE. DAVID THOM, RSF. so I think it is the Troon man (my original candidate)

Any Ayrshire folk out there who can help?????
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I've sorted this man now Rolling Eyes

The man named on the Dumfries as PTE. DAVID THOM, R.S.F. and Troon War Memorials is:

David Alexander Thom – age 36 – Private (13329) 7th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers.
David had been a Railway Fireman at Dumfries where his father was an Engine Driver. He was living in Troon when he enlisted at Ayr. He landed with his battalion at Boulogne in July 1915.
Born 1879 in Dumfries. Son of William and Helen Thom of Dumfries.
Husband of Margaret Isabel (Paterson) Thom (later Mrs. Cowan) of 1 Collinan Terrace, Gillis Street, Troon, Ayrshire who he had married in 1901 in Kirkcudbright.
Died of Wounds on 13 May 1916 and buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
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