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Lazarus
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Portree Census 1841?
« on: Saturday 23 February 08 04:08 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone please help with Census look up for Portree Invernesshire?
I am looking for Swan family.My gggrandmother Mary Ann Swan bC1835 came to Australia.
My previous request failed to attract any answers. Cry
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Wyatt and Wood of Glossop, Derbyshire. Longstaff of Bishop Auckland,Durham. Harry of St Austell and St Kew,Cornwall. Charters of County Antrim.Knight of Warwickshire.
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Re: Portree Census 1841?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 23 February 08 06:50 GMT (UK) »
Hello

Census records for 1841 are free to look up on www.freecen.org.uk

On the home page of the above - click on search the data base.  Next page, top left change the year to 1841 - it defaults to 1891.  Enter Swan as a surname only.  - select Inverness-shire - press search and all the Swans come up.

According to the transcribed records there were only 13 Swans in Inverness-shire in 1841.  The only one remotely like your Mary Ann is the family below

Piece: SCT1841/92 Place: Boleskine & Abertarf-Inverness-shire Enumeration District: 7
Civil Parish: Boleskine&abertarff Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 7 Page: 3
Address: Leek

 
    Surname   First name(s)   Sex   Age   Occupation   Where Born   Remarks   
    SWAN   Angus   M   45   Lab    Outside Census County (1841)       
    SWAN   Mary   F   40       Inverness-shire       
    SWAN   Ann   F   8       Inverness-shire


Link to the parish info:

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/parishes/parhistory337.html

A copy of the original could be sourced from the pay per view site www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

(I'm aware that Portree is on the Isle of Skye, but searching using that brings up no matches at all.)

Good luck with your searching.  Regards,   Steve   :O)
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Re: Portree Census 1841?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 23 February 08 08:17 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for your information Steve.
All I have to go on at the moment is that her name was given as Mary Swan at the birth of her first child in Jul 1855 in Australia.Her age was given as 21.
She married Thomas Knight Jul 1854 at a sheep/cattle station in Australia,probably by a travelling minister.I hope to hear from the custodian of the marriage records soon.It is assumed that these records were maintained at the ministers home base where he later built a church.
Mary and Thomas had eight children and she was sometimes shown as just Mary,others Mary Ann.She may have been called Ann at the time of the Census,so as not to confuse with her mother.
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Wyatt and Wood of Glossop, Derbyshire. Longstaff of Bishop Auckland,Durham. Harry of St Austell and St Kew,Cornwall. Charters of County Antrim.Knight of Warwickshire.
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