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MonicaLesl
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Re: Waters family, West Lothian Scotland 1880 - present
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 02 December 09 19:06 UTC (UK) »
Hi Miaow

Dates seem out here  Undecided  Peter, father, looks to have been born c. 1861 (although Ev and I haven't been able to find his birth entry but we do have possible census entries for him). Have you looked at the 1883 marriage? Have you managed to confirm his parents' names?

Mary and Isabella don't look to have been twins  Undecided Is this from the family's 1871 entry where Mary and Isabella show as aged 9?  You have the birth regs. from Ireland with Mary's birth in 1862 and Isabella's in 1863.

Monica  Smiley
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Re: Waters family, West Lothian Scotland 1880 - present
« Reply #16 on: Yesterday at 20:51:43 »
Hi Monica, I have had a look at the Marriage cert and con confirm that they married 4/12/1883. Peters' parents were Peter Wates and Henrietta Stewart. Thanx for your help. Smiley

Andrea

P.S.Isabella's parents were Major Walker and Mary Devine. A family relative told me that they were twins but don't know where he got his info from.
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MonicaLesl
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Re: Waters family, West Lothian Scotland 1880 - present
« Reply #17 on: Yesterday at 21:58:28 »
That's great that you have able to verify  Smiley Your relative I think probably was working from the 1871 census where both Mary and Isabella shows as aged 9, prior to finding the girls' births in Ireland.

The Walker side seems a lot more straightforward, at least in respect of her parents and siblings. It's the Waters side that is still causing problems. There are only about 4 Peter Waters in the whole of Scotland old enough to be your Peter's father in the 1861 census and with one Peter and family living in Berwickshire, you would think this would be his family. The two problems we are having:

- we cannot find his birth on SP or IGI to let you verify this details
- whilst we can potential parents Peter Waters and Ann Boyce for him, his marriage entry that you have confirmed show mother as Henrietta Stewart. Two options here, either he made a mistake with mother's name (she would have died when he was relatively young given it is likely from the census entries we have potentially found, that his father remarried by the time of the 1871 census) or, we have the wrong family for him in the Berwickshire family that later moved to West Lothian. The problem is we are not seeing anything else for him  Undecided

Monica
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