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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Orkney => Topic started by: Rosinish on Sunday 23 June 13 00:43 BST (UK)
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Hi,
Is anyone tracing descendants of the above couple. They had at least 8 children:
David 1849
Margaret Davidson 1851
Ann 1853
Mary 1856
Robina 1859 = Roderick Gordon M(a)cLeod of Dunvegan, Skye
John 1863
James Miller 1864
John Irvine 1868
Regards,
Annie
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Hi, they also have a William aged 9 on the 1871 census
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Hi akc,
Thanks for William, not sure how I missed him............probably because he is not on LDS?
Annie
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found him via the orkney family history website, pearson is an odd name for orkney ??
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Hi akc,
I'm helping a friend so early in my research but according to census Eliza Pearson was born Evie, Orkney c 1824 ish. That's how early on I'm into things as I'm just about to look that up as I'd never heard of Evie.
The naming pattern of kids seems a bit "skee-wiff" though to have an educated guess at her mother's name.
1st b David seems to be named after dad himself as it appears by 1841 census that David snr's father was James & mother Margaret.
2nd b Margaret Davidson Sinclair so pos Eliza's mother was Margaret or maybe her m/s Davidson unless Davidson was David snr's mother's m/s?
Annie.
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3 of the kids have surnames for middlenames
Margaret Davidson 1851
James Miller 1864
John Irvine 1868
So I have quite a choice for Eliza's mother m/s but can't get my head round the fact that none of the girls was name Eliza/Elizabeth?
I suppose that's what makes genealogy so interesting & challenging ::)
Annie
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there,s abig family of pearsons in evie
1841 at Logie ( could be anything close to that, there are a few different spellings )
james pearson 60
mary pearson 60
eliza 15
william 15
james 10
jane 6
john 1
mary pearson 15 servant
margaret pearson 15 servant
there are pearsons in evie right up to the 1911 census
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Thanks akc for census. I'm back & forth here doing things in between :)
Eliza b 25 Jul 1823 Evie but mother's m/s nothing like I thought...............Scarth ???
So much for my educated "working out" ;D
Those ancestors sure new how to cause enigmas :P
Annie
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www.rousayroots.com
www.raymillar.co.uk
www.southronaldsay.net
3 websites you might get some info from, there were a lot of pearsons in rousay, which is just across the water a short trip from evie
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Thanks akc,
The Ray Millar one seems very interesting, given that David & Eliza's son James has Millar as a middle name. This could be where I find a connection hopefully?
I'm away to check them out ;D
Annie.
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Hi Annie
You are in good hands with akc's help :)
Just a few bits from me...there are a few people researching the family in a number of sites. Some links below that might let you contact others for further info:
http://aussiemandas.weebly.com/chronicles-of-scarth.html - The Scarth connection is for mother Mary Scarth, wife of James Pearson. This includes: 1.5.2. Eliza PEARSON was born on the 25th July 1823 at ?Birn Burn. She married David SINCLAIR (1824-1910). Eliza died on the 13th November 1902 at 4 Victoria Road, Kirkwall.
Possible details to follow up further for brother David http://sinclair.quarterman.org/archive/2000/04/msg00202.html
http://www.geni.com/people/Eliza-SINCLAIR/6000000001773744197
How have you fared on the David Sinclair side?
Monica
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Well that was a bit of an anti climax. There are 25,000 names in Ray Millar's tree but only......................................................................................1 Pearson ;D
498 Sinclair's but don't see David who married Eliza Pearson.
There are other names from my list though, Irvine, Scarth etc. so I'm sure I will fall upon something though as they were only small islands and inter-married.
Thanks,
Annie.
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Hi Annie
You are in good hands with akc's help :)
Just a few bits from me...there are a few people researching the family in a number of sites. Some links below that might let you contact others for further info:
http://aussiemandas.weebly.com/chronicles-of-scarth.html - The Scarth connection is for mother Mary Scarth, wife of James Pearson. This includes: 1.5.2. Eliza PEARSON was born on the 25th July 1823 at ?Birn Burn. She married David SINCLAIR (1824-1910). Eliza died on the 13th November 1902 at 4 Victoria Road, Kirkwall.
Possible details to follow up further for brother David http://sinclair.quarterman.org/archive/2000/04/msg00202.html
http://www.geni.com/people/Eliza-SINCLAIR/6000000001773744197
How have you fared on the David Sinclair side?
Monica
Hi Monica,
Hope you enjoyed your break. Did you forget to add "fast" to your note ??? ;D ::)
Just starting out with this for a friend so not got too far yet. Only started y/day from his birth in 1948 and had to climb the ladder on SP so this is where I'm at David & Eliza.
I'm as well to collect what I can while I'm in Orkney ;D as they are far flung and coincidently one of the ancestors hailed from South Uist where my paternal folks hailed from - small world!
His parents were Govan, Skye & Aberdenn connected so I have an interesting one this time.
Annie.
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Monica,
I forgot to say I will certainly be following up your leads,
Thanks,
Annie.
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another interesting middle name for ann ( Iverach )?
found on scotlands people
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Now, I came across that yesterday somewhere but think it was before I found the proper connection.
Seems there is a lot of info. online for them so it will keep me going for a while.
Annie.
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another interesting middle name for ann ( Iverach )?
found on scotlands people
akc - I think, almost sure it may have been on the Cursiter Site (Orkney) I saw the name Iverach?
It seemed to me that there were 2 families both with David & Eliza as parent's so I wouldn't have been able to confirm a connection at that point as I didn't have Eliza's birth then.
Annie.