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« on: Saturday 15 March 08 03:35 GMT (UK) » |
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I have a very interesting story and the only reason I discovered it was a distant cousin had it passed down in her family where it was lost in mine. Here goes:
My ancestors were Allan Irvine and Mary Love. They were married in 1830 in New Monkland, Lanarkshire. Allan died pre-1855 and I cannot find any record of him at all. It took me ages to find Mary. The woman married three times and had four names - Love, Irvine, Jardine and Wallace. I finally found her death registration under Wallace and it listed her parents as David Love and Janet Williamson. She was born in Carnwath, Lanarkshire in 1810. That left me with her parents and there are a lot of Loves out there. I met another lister on the Fife list looking for Allan and I got in touch. Apparently there is a christening record for an Allan Irvine born in Fife to David Irvine and Janet Robertson. We corresponded and figured out we were looking for the same family. Then he discovered another lady on another list and she was looking for the same family and all three of us began to correspond. She had a remarkable story to tell. Her ancestor, the father of Mary Love had immigrated to the coalfields of Pictou, Nova Scotia along with his son. So you could say my ggg grandfather got to Canada before me by about 150 years! Anyway, he passed along a story:
Back in September 1818 his grandfather aged 70 had been walking to work near New Monklands when he was accosted by a drunken weaver by the name of Matthew Clydesdale. The weaver beat the old man to near death and in fact Alexander Love died a few days later of his injuries. The murderer was arrested and put on trial where he was pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang. The sentence was carried out and the body was carried off to Glasgow University where Dr. Andrew Ure, senior lecturer at the recently founded Anderson's Institution in John Street and Professor James Jeffray, professor of Anatomy, Botany and Midwifery at Glasgow University performed rather grisly experiments on the corpse. Bolts were attached to the neck of the body and the doctors tried to animate the corpse again with electricity. It was a public "autopsy" and news of the experiment found it's way to a young lady by the name of Mary Shelley.... and the rest is history.
Anyway, it turns out Alexander Love and wife Mary Wilkison or Wilkinson may have been from Stirlingshire originally as their first child, Agnes was born in Polmont in 1776, the next three children were born in West Lothian, Lanark and Mid Lothian, and of the final three, two were born in St. Ninians and the last in Lanark. I cannot find a marriage for the couple at all. Any help would be appreciated.
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