Name: tchisholm -- Thomas Cristie Chisholm Family

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Thomas Wright CHISHOLM: Birth: 22 MAY 1878 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire , Scotland . Death: BEF 1930

  2. George Jackson CHISHOLM: Birth: 3 JAN 1880 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire , Scotland . Death: 5 DEC 1958 in Los Angeles, California

  3. Agnes Harriet CHISHOLM: Birth: 30 JAN 1880 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire , Scotland . Death: 3 AUG 1945 in Los Angeles, California

  4. John Christie CHISHOLM: Birth: 27 NOV 1883 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire , Scotland . Death: BEF 1900

  5. Robert CHISHOLM: Birth: ABT 1886 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Death: BEF 1900 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California

  6. Henry John CHISHOLM: Birth: 30 JUL 1887 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Death: 14 AUG 1975 in Los Angeles, California

  7. Mary Elizabeth CHISHOLM: Birth: JUL 1889 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.

  8. Helen Ellen Christie: Birth: MAR 1891 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.

  9. Albert Elvin CHISHOLM: Birth: 2 MAR 1895 in California. Death: 13 JAN 1977 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California

  10. William Wallace CHISHOLM: Birth: 26 JAN 1900 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California. Death: 4 NOV 1987 in Arcadia, Los Angeles, California


Notes
a. Note:   N1 Christie also spelled without the h - especially earlier.
  Im working on these guys in connection with gardens for Greene and Greene houses, and design for Central and Memorial Parks.
 T Chisholm opened early nursery in the city 1876 (note: this is too early, he did not come to US until 1884/5, found him in the 1881 Scottish census) specializing in Japanese dwarf trees---Victoria Padilla, Southern California Gardens, 1961, p 74
 T Chisholm is also awarded the job to design Central Park, and later Library Park.  Competition reportedly included Olmsted firm.
 (Ann Scheid research)
  1851 birthplace is 13 miles southeast of Edinburgh.
 1881 Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, (several miles southeast of Glasgow on the Clyde River at Strathclyde Loch) w/wife and children Thomas, George J., probably sister Agnes 26y ladies maid, and John C. 24y, probably brother, law student, Edin., family living at Bothwell Bank Lodge, occupation gardner, domestic service.
 1885 to US re: 1900, 1910 census; 1884 re: 1920 census.
 1900 Pasadena, Los Angeles, CA w/wife and children George, Agnes, Henry, Mary, Ellen, Albert, and William, living at 530 Los Robles, Ave.
 1902 CD he is prop of Pasadena Nursery Co. at 198 E Colorado, living at 530 N Los Robles.
 1906 Pasadena City Directory, 530 N. Los Robles; prop of Pasadena Nursery Co.
 1910 Pasadena Ward 1, Los Angeles, California w/wife and children Henry J., Mary, Ellen, Albert, Wallace W., living at 530 N Los Robles.
 1910 Imperial County Directory; Thomas Chisholm prop. Pasadena Nursery, Pasadena.
 1913 Pasadena City Directory, 530 N. Los Robles; prop of Pasadena Nursery Co.
 1920 Pasadena, Los Angeles, California w/wife and children Helen, William, s-i-l R. Clifford Wright (b. abt. 1877, Iowa), living at 530 Los Robles, Ave.
 1930 Pasadena, Los Angeles, California w/wife and servant Margaret McKenzie 52y, living at 530 Los Robles, Ave., value of home $10,000.
  CHISHOLM NAME MEANING
 Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c¯se, cese ‘cheese’ (Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as
 Siosal
b. Note:   Not clear where family members buried; not Mt. View.

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