Henderson, age gap.

[heatherrr]

Thanks, I'll go over it over the next few days and hopefully figure it out and let you know. Janets mum Elizabeths age is inconsistent too so that doesn't help

[Millmoor]

Missed this first time round!

Glasgow Herald 19 June 1889 " Ferguson. At Callander on the 17th instant aged 52 Finlay Ferguson, Clifton, Tyndrum formerly spirit dealer, Glasgow".

William

[heatherrr]

Great, I'm working on Finlay just now.

The information I have on Elizabeth has her as 28 when she married in 1856 and 75 when she died 1898. All the other info is the same. Going by the 1871/81 census Finlay would be a good bit younger.

Underneath his signature on Janets birth is written '80 Eglington Place', and on the 1871 census that Finlay is at 144 Eglington Place. Looks like a match.

[heatherrr]

Was finally able to get the 1889 Callander death for Finlay.

Anyone able to help with this name? Looks like Duncan Mc-?

[flst]

I suggest you try & find a marriage on scotlandspeople, perhaps a female Ferguson, to a Duncan, pre 1889. Hope this helps,
flst

[Forfarian]

There is another way, but it may not work.

When an event was registered, the Registrar copied the details into a second, duplicate, book. At the end of the year one book was sent to Edinburgh and the other was retained locally. As the one with Duncan's actual signature is the one that has been digitised, the one where the Registrar copied the name as signed must have been retained in Callander.

Now, all the pre-1900 duplicate books were normally held centrally in the main Registrar's in the county town. Callander is in Perthshire so I would expect the second book from Callander to have been held in Perth. So it might be worth e-mailing the Registrar in Perth a copy of the signature and asking if they would be kind enough to look it up in their duplicate copy of the book and tell you what it says.

The snag is that there was talk about the duplicate books being pulped to save the cost of storing them. This is exactly the sort of thing that was used as an argument against them being destroyed, of course. I do not know whether the destruction has actually taken place, and obviously if it has, you won't be any further forward. But you have nothing to lose but a few minutes of time.

[Millmoor]

Hi

Suggest you download Finlays will. It is fifteen pages long and names all his relatives. His brother in law was Duncan McFarlane who married his sister Janet. It confirms that you have found the correct Finlay as he specifically names his daughter Janet.

William

[heatherrr]

I just purchased the will there.



Thank you all for the help