Mckenize help with BMD

[ugo]

! am looking for help with Hope McKenzie, born 1827 Edinburgh, when she married John Currie, her parents were James McKenzie and Margaret Dick,.Inveresk & Musselburgh 1841 she was living with John's Stepmother Ann Currie,(Shepherd) 1st marriage to John McKenzie.
Hope died 1893, I can not find her birth, or her parents marriage or their deaths.

Many thanks

[CaroleW]

There was also a 20yr old Margaret McKenzie and a 15yr old Mary McKenzie on that 1841 entry - presumably Hope's siblings?

That info is needed as it it gives a possible timescale for their parents marriage.  Margaret may have been older than 20 given that ages were rounded down in 1841

[ugo]

CaroleW,

Margaret and Maryann were the daughters of Ann Currie, from the marriage to John McKenzie,
stepsisters to John Currie, I have a feeling they could be cousins.
Ann married William Currie Dec 1827, they had two children Alexander and Elizabeth.

John McKenzie was a Wright from Newbigging, death not known.

[CaroleW]

Oops - sorry.  Should never make assumptions

[Celtic2]

Hi -I am new to this site and am a descendent of a Margaret McKenzie born around 1824.  Her obit says she was born on 12-18-1824 in Edinburg but the censuses say she was born in Ireland.  Could this be the same Margaret?  She married William Harper in Blantyre in 1844 and her children were all born in Lanarkshire. I have been looking for her for 2 years.

[Forfarian]

Celtic2, did your Margaret McKenzie die in Scotland after 1855?

[Celtic2]

Forfarian- no she died in Iowa US at the home of her daughter Margaret Harper Frame Blair in 1896.- Celtic2

[Forfarian]

Ah. I think I'd be inclined to believe the census, which is information she probably supplied herself, rather that the obit, which may have been supplied by someone else.

I presume that Iowa death certificates don't name the parents of the deceased, or you would have told us.

[Celtic2]

Unfortunately the actual death certificate appears to have been lost for her and her son, my ggrandfather.  Not the greatest record keeping back then!