However, that seemed really all there was to know about him from his birth in 1905 apart from that his death had been in his home-town's Infirmary, his address at the time and his burial in Woodside Cemetery. There was no mention, for example, of him having married. Yet there was more. His father was an iron-moulder from Glasgow, his mother from Ayrshire. He was one of eight children, three boys, of whom he was the middle one, and five girls. His father had died when he was just eight. And he did wed, to Mabel Powrie in the town in the 1932, she a mill-worker, he recorded as a railway clerk. Furthermore, they were to have one daughter, born in 1935, and Mabel would outlive Bobby by more then two decades, passing away in 1986 and in Paisley still.