Salisbury / Stewart Family Tree

1851 Census: Living at 38 Woolmanhill, Aberdeen West. Occupation: Stone Maker.
1861 Census: Living at East Lodge, Skene, Aberdeenshire. Occupation: Masson (master)
1881 Census: Living at 72, Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen. Occupation: Mason Foreman
1891 Census: Living at 77 Waterloo Quay, Aberdeen. Occupation: Retired Manager Granite Works . [Post Office directory 1891 shows him as Manager of John Fyfe, Kemnay Quarries].
1901 Census: Living at 181 Skene St West, Aberdeen. Occupation: Retired Mason
Death certificate 1901: Living at 181 Skene St West, Aberdeen. Occupation: Retired manager gr anite merchant.

Grave located at N57°07.9450' W002°08.7199'

1861: Doing repair work at darnford Durris, and Burn of Dykes. Handwritten invoice exists. [S ource Margaret Neilson Stewart].

Worked at Garden & Co - Granite Merchants. Traded at Gerrard Street from 1874 to 1879 as Jame s Garden & Co, thereafter just Garden & Co. First address listed is Gerrard Street (1874-75) , then 67 Gerrard Street (1875-77) before moving to King Street (1879-80) and remaining there . First entered as a limited company in the Directory in 1941-42. Last entry 1962-63. [Sour ce : Aberdeen city directories].
1895 Valuation rolls show Garden & Co as Owner Occupier of Yards, Sheds, Machinery and stor e at 213,233 King Street, and Tenant Occupier of a yard at 245 King Street and ground at 255 , 307 King Street.
1905 Valuation Rolls show Garden & Co as Owner Occupier of Yards, Sheds, Machinery, store, of fices, and hoarding site at 213,233 King Street, and sheds at 273 King Street, and Tenant Occ upier of ground at 273, 307, 309 King Street.
1925 Valuation Rolls show Garden & Co as Owner Occupier of Ground, Granite Works, and Hoardin g at 251 King Street, and Tenant Occupier of ground at 255 King Street.
King Street premises purchased in 1892 for £2000.
Pictures from Garden & Co can be seen on the Aberdeen Art Gallery website: http://www.aagm.co .uk/Exhibitions/Virtual/A-Setting-In-Stone.aspx?dosearch=y&exhibition=VE+Setting+in+Stone
Made the granite structure for the 51st (Highland) Division Memorial at Beaumont Hamell, nea r Ypres, and the memorial gate at Kirkwall Cathedral.

Minutes of the Aberdeen Granite Association referring to Garden & Co:
18/3/1890 Mr Stewart (representative of Garden & Co) was proposing that men who were absent f rom work without permission should not only lose pay but be fined 6d per hour of absence
25/5/1891 accused by Stonecutters' Union of working excessive overtime
20/5/1892 an apprentice deserts the company to work with another member of AGA
4/7/1893 "anxious" meeting between deputation from AGA and company with some concern as to wh ether Garden was to remain part of employer's association.