Jane Orr (1830-1863)

Based on her research for her book Ancestry of W. M. Richards and A. Elizabeth "Betsey" Gwinner', Mary Beth Dunhaupt Figgins cites some correspondence stating Jane's birth date as 29 September 1830.  Most other evidence would support this as a reasonable date.  Jane is sometimes rendered "Jean" and in the 1841 Scotland Census the name looks a lot like "Lean", but I believe it is a script "J" not an "L".
Jane left few nuggets with which to illustrate her life.  She was born, married, had children and died in less than 35 years.  As a 'economically challenged' woman in the mid-1800s she was virtually invisible to society so little personal information has survived her.  Also, even her family didn't seem to rate much mention outside of the statutory birth/marriage/death records and so this will perhaps be a shorter post than most.
As with her siblings, Jane was born in or near Airdrie.  She is listed with her birth family in the 1851 Census at 20 years old and, like her mother, was a staymaker by trade.  Perhaps she and her mother worked together, but there is no indication one way or the other.

Marriage to William Condie

Figure 1: Old Parish Marriage Records, New Monkland Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland , May 1853

As can be seen above, the banns for the marriage of William Condie and Jane Orr were announced on the 2nd Sabbath of May 1853 for which 3 shillings 6 pence was collected.  Banns were usually announced prior to the marriage ceremony as a way of publicly expressing the couple's intent and inviting rebuttals.  The 2nd Sabbath would have been 8 May 1853.  They were "both" residents of New Monkland Parish (which covered the area around Airdrie).  Although born in Rutherglen Parish, a short distance southeast of Glasgow, William had lived on London St., in Airdrie since at least 1841 according to census records.  He is also shown to be an hatter apprentice in 1851.

The Growing Family Around Airdrie

Perhaps William had not found much work as a hatter, so it is as an iron miner that he is employed at the birth of his first child.  On 21 Nov 1853, John Orr Condie was born to William and Jane while they lived at Grahamshill.  Grahamshill was less than a half-mile east-southeast of Drumbathie.  At the time there was an ironstone mine directly across the road to the west of Grahamshill so it is possible that William worked there, although there are other possible mines in the area.

Figure 2: Scotland Birth Registrations; William Condie; 4 Sep 1855, New Monkland, Lanarkshire

On 4 September 1855, their second child, William, was born.  The family was still living at Grahamshill and William was still mining iron.  One interesting tidbit from the birth record as seen in Figure 2 is that the couple had been married at Drumbathie, but other than confirming the year of 1853, a date for the actual ceremony is not indicated.
A third son, Thomas, was born at 117 Graham St. in Airdrie on 26 Jul 1857.  His father was still working as an iron miner.  Thomas' life was short.  On 15 Jun 1858, he passed away at 5 Johnston St. in Airdrie of pneumonia.  He was buried in the Broomknoll Churchyard.  (See the post on John Orr -- 1786-1859 for more information on Orr-related burials in the Broomknoll Churchyard)
The family was still on Johnston St. when son Robert was born on 26 Mar 1859.  His father William was mining coal at this time.

The Family Moves to Kilsyth

Between 1859 and 1861, the family decided to move out of the Airdrie area and on 28 Mar 1861 after having four sons, William and Jane finally had a daughter.  Madeline Bird Condie was born on Drumtrocher St. in Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, about 10 miles north of Airdrie (the 1861 Census shows them at 46 Drumtrocher St.)

Figure 3: Scotland Birth Registrations; Madeline Bird Condie; 28 Mar 1861, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire

Not only was there a change in residence, but there seems to have been a change in occupation as well.  The 1861 Census shows William as a coal miner, but Madeline's birth record (see Figure 3) shows him as a hatter.  There are no 'hatters' listed in Kilsyth in the 1861 Census so perhaps there was a need for one.   In all but one case, he continues to list hatter as his occupation for the rest of his life.  This record also indicates that William and Jane were married on 3 Jun 1853 about a month after the banns were announced in the parish church. 
Jane was listed as a staymaker in the 1861 Census.  I don't believe there was another staymaker in Kilsyth, though the weaving industry was a big part of the town's economy at that time.  Kilsyth population was about 5800 that year, compared to almost 13000 in Airdrie. 
It was in Kilsyth that Jane passed away.  According to her death record, she died on the morning of 21 Oct 1863 at Backbrae, Kilsyth.  She died of Tetanus from which she had suffered for 7 days.  Backbrae is not pinpointed on any map I've seen, but "Back Brae" is described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book 1858-61 (Stirlingshire Volume 16 -- OS1/32/16/68) as
"A well known name applying to the whole of the houses, from the one extremity of the slope, on the west of the trace, to the other."
I don't know precisely know how to interpret this statement, but on contemporary maps there is a Backbrae St. running along the west side of Kilsyth adjacent to Garrel Burn.  Looking at newspaper articles mentioning Backbrae, the statement probably meant a series of houses on or near that street.

William's Life After Jane's Death

William lived in at least 10 different addresses from his marriage to Jane in 1853 to his death in 1888, so it is unsurprising that he moved again after Jane's death.  This time he took up residence in Glasgow.  On 18 Aug 1864 he lost his namesake son William to "effusion of brain."  Specifically "effusion" refers to "an abnormal collection of fluid within a cavity."  Since no more information is given, we are left to guess what the cause was.  It could have been a head injury, a viral infection such as meningitis or a host of other maladies. 
At William Jr.'s  death the family was living at 49 Cavendish St.,Glasgow.  The family still lived there a year later when on 30 Nov 1866, William married Ann McMinn.  The marriage record shows her to be a 26-year-old domestic servant (William was 31) and a 'spinster' (i.e. not previously married).  On 5 Aug 1867 they had their first child and named him William.  So yes, there is William the father, William his son by Jane who died in 1864 and William the son by Ann born in 1867.
This second William Jr. was born at 56 York St. in the Hutchesontown section of Glasgow.  56 York St. was the residence that Ann had given when she married William so perhaps they moved into her place after they wed.  The family lived there for several years and three more children were born there -- James on 10 Dec 1868, George Paterson on 2 May 1870 and  John on 30 Dec 1871.
Also while living there, William lost his oldest son John on 5 July 1871.

Figure 4: Glasgow Daily Herald, Fri, 7 July 1871, pg 5, col 8.

I have found no record of the circumstances of the accident.  The death record adds that he was employed as a "Railway Brakeman", that he died "immediately after the accident" of "internal injuries" and that it took place at "the Coal Depot [at?] Gushetfaulds".  If I read the old maps correctly, this was only a few hundred yards from the address on Cavendish St., where the family lived when they first moved to Glasgow. 

As with his first wife, Ann had given birth to four boys, and in more history repeating itself, the fifth child was a girl.  On 16 Nov 1873 Ann gave birth to Margaret McMinn Condie at Brewsterford in Bothwell Parish.  Brewsterford was a small group of houses on the North Calder about 1.5 miles southwest of Airdrie.  However, the joy of the birth of a daughter was quickly followed by sadness.  Just after midnight on 23 Nov, Ann passed away of "child-bed fever" which was probably a postpartum infection of some kind. 

William was present at the death of his wife according to the record, and as can be seen in Figure 6, his occupation was "Roadsman in Coalpit, Late Hatter (Journeyman)".  Perhaps he was having trouble making ends meet in Glasgow as a journeyman hatter and tried his hand once again in the coal mines near Airdrie.

Figure 5: Scot.  Death Record; Anne Condie, 23 Nov 1873, Holytown District, Lanarkshire

The following item adds another piece to the story.

Figure 6: Scot. Birth Registrations; Margaret McMinn Condie, 16 Nov 1873, Holytown Dist., Lanarkshire

Squeezed in the margin of Margaret's birth record (see Figure 6)  there is a reference to an "Alteration of Child's Name" on Apr 6, 1874 and for the rest of her life Margaret's name was to be Ann McMinn Condie in memorial to her mother.  However her life was short.   On 20 Apr 1877 she died at the age of 3 years, 5 months of "Bronchitis" at 462 South York St.  William was once again in Glasgow and once again listed as a journeyman hatter. 

William's Final Years

The 1881 Census shows William at 1 Anderson St., in the Kinning Park section of Glasgow.  In the 1885 Valuation Rolls he is shown at 234 Pollokshaws Rd., in Glasgow and it is there he died on 9 Nov 1888.  The cause of death is listed as "Chronic Bronchitis" which he had reportedly had for 17 years.  Perhaps this was attributable to his work in the mines. 
The family left little mark on the world, but that was probably typical of the lower working class of that era.  William saw the death of both his wives and 4 of his 10 children before he passed.  A fifth child (George Paterson) would die five months after him.