The Old Family
and how we got here
David Hogg got around. The census tells us he was born in England although he married his Scottish bride Anna Paterson in Leith and then had his family there and in Gardenstown up on the Moray Firth, returning to Leith where presumably he died. He also turned his hand to a few jobs, being noted in the records as a warehouseman at the time of his marriage, a cooper when son George is born, a fish curer when son David is born, a corn chandler in the 1841 census and a mealdealer when David died. They are all clearly the same person, confirmed by the other people in the records.
David is therefore the only known English member of our tree apart from his ancestry which is as yet unexplored apart from his presumed parentage. Going by dates and children's names the best guess is that he was born to George and Rachael Hogg in Marylebone, the London district which contains Baker Street of Sherlock Holmes and Gerry Rafferty fame. The sequence of jobs suggest that he may have been involved with the whisky industry as warehouseman, cooper, corn chandler and meal dealer could all be seen as related to that industry. How fish curer fits in is anybody's guess.
His son's death record lets us know that David the elder had pre-deceased him although we don't know exactly when but mother Anna is not marked as deceased, which may be an oversight or an indication that there is an 89 year old woman around. I located an appropriately aged Ann Hogg in the Canongate Charity Workhouse in the 1851 census. Her occupation is listed as householder, which seems strange, but several are listed as such. Surely her son, as a successful saddler, wouldn't let his mother go to the workhouse, would he? She is certainly marked as an inmate but, as I say, also a householder. Strange. I cannot positively identify her after that.