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swinney
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look up please 1891 - 1901
« on: Tuesday 27 October 09 12:33 UTC (UK) »

hi
looking for a
Sydney Skelton (merchant Seaman) And his wife grace  (nee Williamson)
in the denny area

any help would be gratefully recieved
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apanderson
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 12:52 UTC (UK) »

I can't find either of them on either Census Swinney,

Sorry.

Anne
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 13:26 UTC (UK) »

No luck here either. Were they actually married by 1891? I can find a Grace Williamson, but not a Grace Skelton. Do you know when she was born?
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 13:49 UTC (UK) »

You had more luck that I had K44!

I could only find 1 Williamson Family in Denny

1891:
Living at Herbertshire Street
James age 29, wife Isabella aged 28
Maggie age 5, Jane age 4 & Hughina age 10 months

1901:
Living at 111 Stirling Street (Dunipace)
James age 39, wife 'Sibella' aged 37
Children:
George age 14, Jane age 12, Hughina age 10, James age 9, Isabella age 7, Agnes age 4, Elizabeth age 2 & Alexander age 1

Anne
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 13:59 UTC (UK) »

Only 1 Skelton Family in the immediate areas (in Bonnybridge, just down the road)

1891:
Living at 4 Old School
Daniel age 36, wife Mary age 34
Children:
Mary age 10, Charles age 8, Elizabeth age 7, Agnes age 5, William age 2 & Sarah age 1 month

This family seems to vanish from the area as they don't seem to be around in 1901.

Anne

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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 14:15 UTC (UK) »

Anne,

The Grace I found was born in Falkirk, so a little further away again, but her father, Robert, was a Dock Labourer (extremely tenuous Merchant Seaman connection ...). I suspect she is far too young to be the same Grace. I read Swinneys post to mean that the couple were already married by 1891 and the Grace I found would only have been a young child.

Karen
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 14:29 UTC (UK) »

I presumed that they were married by 1891 too.  Smiley

I think we'll have to await Swinney's return to see if there's any other info available to pin these folks down.

Anne
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 15:21 UTC (UK) »

hi sorry for the delay,
i am not sure when thay got married, my gt grandmother was helen skelton born circa 1900
her parents were named as Sydney and grace (nee williamson) Skelton on her marriage certificate, fathers occupation was merchant seaman

sorry i have little information for you to work on

colin
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 17:50 UTC (UK) »

Hi Colin,

Still no luck I'm afraid.

I looked for the birth of a Helen Skelton 1900 +/- 1 year and the only two which showed up (in the whole of Scotland) were:

Helen born c1900 at Blantyre, parents Francis (Coal Miner) & Catherine, living at 24 Merrys Rows &
Helen born c1900 at Bellshill, parents James (Coal Miner) & Eliza, living at 36 Nimmo's Rows

I presume your Helen's parents were still alive at the date of her marriage?

Anne
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swinney
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 18:01 UTC (UK) »

both parents were deceased at the time of the marriage in 1920
helen was aged 20 at this time
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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 27 October 09 18:06 UTC (UK) »

I think you might have to search for the death of one of the parents death certs on SP.  Undecided

My credits have expired so I can't help you out there.

Anne

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Re: look up please 1891 - 1901
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 28 October 09 09:47 UTC (UK) »

No luck here, I'm afraid. Still can't find a marriage. I have also tried searching for the death of a Grace Williamson, other surname Skelton, but no matches are returned. Searching purely on the surnames returns one woman who died in 1904 - a Janet Williamson, other surnames Davidson and Skelton. She died in Cockpen Midlothian at the age of 41. I have not downloaded the detailed certificate.

The only return when I tried Sydney Skelton was a Robert Sydney Skelton who died in 1995 in Ayr at the age of 66.

Is your information on Grace Williamson and Sydney Skelton coming from Helen's marriage and death certificates? Do they agree? Do you have any more information at all about them?

Otherwise, it looks like a bit of a brick wall.
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