1896. Born to Alexander Muir & Helen Houston in Tardeo, Bombay. Have found no record of this. On 29/4/1896 from the 1939 Register- not always correct!
1901C. Ruby M. Muir 4, is living at 75 Ashborn Road Toxteth Park Liverpool. with her parents and 2 siblings Possibly temporary accommodation awaiting return to India.
No shipping record found for the family returning to Bombay, where her father had worked around 1897 & 8.
The family then lived in Bombay where her father, Alexander Muir, is thought to have managed a jute mill business
Alexander, Robert Home, Ruby May, William & Helen ~1901
1911C. Ruby Muir, 14 is at Crouch End High School and College for Ladies, her birthplace given as Bombay India. Address: 4-6 Fairfield Road, Hornsey . Only 6 girls aged 14-16, plus 4 others, 18-20 who were students for London Degree. Have not located the remarried mother, Helen Elliott- seemingly not in England nr Scotland. . Why did their mother choose these 2 schools for them? - did she have a relation close by who could take care of them in the holidays?? Did any of her sisters, once married, lived in London??
1925. Ruby May Muir married Robert Kean McConway in 1925, Renfrew - SP could purchase. They then had a daughter, Ruby M McConway who died aged 0 in Newcasle in 1927. She was the only child they had . Robert Kean McConway was an accountant in Martins Bank Hebburn. Hebburn was where her remarried mother, Helen Elliott, died in 1960. . .
1939. Ellen Elliott, b.12/12/1871, widowed is living 13 St John's Avenue, Hebburn with her married daughter Ruby M McConway
| Ellen | Elliott | 12 Dec 1871 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Widowed | 51 | 3 | ||
| Robert K | McConway | 24 Sep 1884 | Male | Branch Bank Manager | Married | 51 | 1 | ||
| Ruby M | McConway | 29 Apr 1896 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Married |
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Ruby & Bob............. Their grave and that of her mother, presumably in Hebburn Cemetery
1963 Robert K Mcconway, born ~1885, died Durham N.E- 18/2/1963
1980 Ruby May McConway, born ~1896, died, aged 84, Dec 1980 Newcastle upon Tyne