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Topic: Completed - Illegitimate Birth (Read 432 times)
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mnj897
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I wonder if anyone can help me to trace some details of an illegitimate child born to my aunt in the late 1920s or early 30s. I know my aunt's details and the surname of the father. I am also aware that the child died in infancy (I believe from scarlet fever) and I believe that the child was buried in Nellfield Cemetery.
I can find no trace of the birth or death entries in ScotlandsPeople using either surname - any suggestions as to where else I might look?
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« Last Edit: Wednesday 26 March 08 16:44 GMT (UK) by mnj897 »
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Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire: Johnston, Imray, Geddes, Chrichton, Milne, Mortimer, Middleton, Dawson, Kelman, Thom, Florence, Rennie, Thomson, Cobban, Reid.
Clydeside: Burns, Connell, Nisbet, Boyd, McEwen, McKay, McCormack.
Essex: Joslin, Cox.
Northern Ireland: Macauley
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O1dgobbo
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi
I had a similar problem tracing the birth of my Grandfather in Fife. He could be found as a child in the censuses with his presumed father's surname living with his "grandparents". As an adult he was rather vague about his year of birth and I could not find him on Scotland's people. Eventually I discovered that his Grandmother had been married twice and in her first marriage had a daughter Janet Dun. I then found that Jessie Dun had had a child with the right Christian name but Dun as surname in the expected time interval. I was very confident that this was my grandfather because the day and month of birth corresponded exactly with the day and month of his birthday.
You do need to be sure that you know all the names that your Aunt went by. I presume that you have been searching in Aberdeenshire but she may have gone away perhaps to England to have the child. The child may have been registered with the father's name but I think it more likely that it was registered with the mother's name.
Good luck
Gobbo
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Fife - Co?per, Dun, Jackson
NE England - Harland, Hasted, Heaviside, Longridge, Thompson
SE England - Drawbridge, Hall, Hayward, Howard, Newell, Seward, Slade, Smith
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Grothenwell
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Have you tried a search on national archives of scotland website with your Aunt's name? Perhaps the info you have is incorrect and there was a different father involved. I don't know if the ANESFHS has done a MI on Nellfield, but their site might worth a look.
Good luck,
Grothenwell
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Aberdeenshire; Brechin, Robb, Clark, Hardie, Johnston, Watt, Elmslie, Milne, Harper, Adam, Edmond, Laing, Gibson, Aedie, Jameson, Tosche, Measonne, Anderson, Moir, Nicol, Burnet, Donaldson, Guthrie, Argo & Doverty.
Booth, Watson, Grothenwell, Ewen, Mackie, Simpson, Taylor, Davidson, Willox, Chalmers & Gordon
Still, Fraser, Robertson & Lumsden
Banffshire; Cruickshank, West
Caithness; Sutherland
Herefordshire & Worcester & Monmouthshire; Wagstaff, Jones &
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mnj897
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Thanks folks, I've solved this one now. The info was on there at ScotlandsPeople - there was a strange christian name that threw me off the scent The child was born in 1931 and died in 1935 at the Sick Children's Hospital.
For some reason, no image of the birth entry is available and I have had to fork out £10 for a certified copy. However, I did manage to download the image of the death entry for 5 credits. Cause of death was not scarlet fever as was first thought but appendicitis, peritonitis and bronchitis.
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« Last Edit: Wednesday 26 March 08 16:45 GMT (UK) by mnj897 »
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Aberdeenshire, Kincardineshire: Johnston, Imray, Geddes, Chrichton, Milne, Mortimer, Middleton, Dawson, Kelman, Thom, Florence, Rennie, Thomson, Cobban, Reid.
Clydeside: Burns, Connell, Nisbet, Boyd, McEwen, McKay, McCormack.
Essex: Joslin, Cox.
Northern Ireland: Macauley
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