McALLISTER, Janet ¹

   Another name for Janet was GIBSON, Janette.⁴

  General Notes:

The 1891 census for Auchinleck recorded Janet McAllister, daughter of James and (later evidence testifies) Agnes, living at 152 Common Loch. Janet was recorded as aged 9 years, a scholar, and had been born in Auchinleck.

Janet was not listed in the family entry in the 1901 census.

On 12 July 1902 Janet McAllister sailed on board the SS Carthaginian from Glasgow for New York in steerage with her mother, her brother and three sisters. They arrived at the port of New York on July 24 1902. Janet McAllister was recorded in the ship's manifest as a single woman of 15 years of age. Her occupation was noted as 'domestic'. To the questions about whether she could read or write the answer was 'yes' to both. Her nationality was 'Scotch' and her last residence Auchinleck. The manifest records that her final destination was Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and that she had a ticket for that destination, paid for by her mother. She declared herself to be in possession of no money. She had never been in the USA before and was going to join a brother 'Thomas McAllister 631 South Avenue, Media Park, Philadelphia'. She stated that she had not been in prison nor supported by charity, she was a polygamist, she was not under contract to labour in the USA, she was not deformed or crippled but in good health mentally and physically.

The 1910 U.S. Census for Worcester County in Massachusetts recorded Jeneatte Gibson [sic] living at Pleasant Stree West in the town of Warren. She lived with her mother and two sisters: Jemima and Bella, and her brother in law Archibald Ramsay and his daughter Agnes. Jeneatte was recorded as 24 years old and a single woman. She was a white woman of Scots-English descent who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1892 (inaccurate). She spoke English, could read and write, and worked, as her sisters did, as an inspector of cloth at a cotton mill, without having had any days out of work during 1909. ^{2 3 5}