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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 22:24 »
In the 1851, Duncan is 59, and census day was 30 March 1851. Therefore, if his age is accurate, he was born between 30 March 1791 and 29 March 1792. Duncan Macarthur, son of Charles McArthur and Marjory McIntosh, is an exact match.

Jane/Jean McArthur or Gowans' death certificate gives her parents as Charles McArthur and May McIntosh. May is a very common variant of Marjory, so that's great work, Neale.

There seem to be rather a lot of M*cArthur/M*cIntosh couples having children baptised around that time. There's an Alexander M*cArthur and Jean/Jane/Janet M*cIntosh in Nairn, and a Donald M*cArthur and (another) Marjory M*cIntosh not all that far away in Duthil and Rothiemurchus (Aviemore area for those not familiar with the locations of parishes in this neck of the woods).

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:45 »
The Will might make interesting reading.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:40 »
The merchant is most likely, in my opinion.
I agree.

Your subsequent find seems to clinch it. There can't be all that many wine merchants called Duncan Macarthur born in Scotland and living in London.

Would his marriage to Fanny Payne say if he was a widower?

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:26 »
That's great, well done :)

There are two Duncan M(a)cArthurs in England in the 1841 census who could be yours, both born in Scotland and living in London.

One is a merchant, aged 45, with wife Fanny and daughters Fanny, 9 and Charlotte, 8; the other a baker, aged 43, with wife Jane and son David Alexander, 8.

Your Duncan's parents may have died, or possibly his mother died and his father married again.


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Roxburghshire / Re: Hawick and the Great War 1914-1919
« on: Yesterday at 17:11 »
The best way to find burial records is to contact the relevant local authority, in this case Scottish Borders https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/burials-cemeteries/searching-burial-records - if they don't hold the records they will know who does.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Waddell the Martyr
« on: Monday 25 March 24 10:55 GMT (UK)  »
The plot thickens!

Those dates of birth for the supposed sons of William W 'Crown of London' come from https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/1weddle.html and they match the dates of baptism of some of the family of William Waddell and his wife Mary in Dover, Kent

William, baptised 23 or 28 January 1705, buried 5 May 1705
Thomas, baptised 24 February 1706
William, baptised 29 October 1710
Sarah, baptised 29 September 1712
John, baptised 3 October 1714
Mary, buried 1 September 1715.

These are only index listings from the parish register of St Mary the Virgin, Dover. I do not have access to the original documents.

If, as that web site suggests, Mary Irvine was born in 1660, she would have been too old to be the mother of John, and probably of any of them. Also why were they in Dover rather than in Ireland?

The late Caraline Wilfreda Bingley collected a vast amount of information about the Waddells of Ireland, and she states (twice) that the William Waddell whom Mary Irvine married was the son of William 'Crown of London'. This would make far more sense. He could have been a younger brother of the progenitor of the Waddells of Ouley, whose sons went to seek their fortunes in America, leaving their uncle to found the Ouley dynasty back home.

The crucial bit of information needed to progress this is the maiden surname of Mary, mother of those children baptised (or buried) in Dover between 1705 and 1715.







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Lanarkshire / Re: John Waddell the Martyr
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 21:20 GMT (UK)  »
Seaforde is in the parish of Loughinisland. There are various churches there (Church of Ireland, several Presbyterian and RC). However none has records for the 1730s. The oldest is the Church of Ireland. Their records start in 1760. (Copy held in PRONI in Belfast).

So whatever the source of these baptisms is, it seems unlikely to be supported by any surviving church records.
Rather what I thought, which is why I'm keen to know where Mike got it from.

I also have birth or dates for William on 25 January 1704, Thomas on 24 February 1707 and John on 3 October 1710 which I assume are from the same source.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Waddell the Martyr
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 20:41 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, Thomas W had a brother William b. 29 October, 1710 and he is the father of the Joseph b. 1738 who may be my direct ancestor leading to Joseph b. 1799 in Franklin County, PA.

Out of curiosity, where did that date come from? I am pretty sure I got it from Gavin, but I'd be interested to know where he got it from.

Also, Gavin says that the mother of the Blind Preacher was Margaret Mayne Reid, but for some reason I have her down as Janetta Bruce, so I'd welcome clarification of that one way or another.

Freda Bingley lists baptisms in Seaforde, County Down, of James in 1738 and Thomas in 1739 to Thomas W and Jane Bruce. She attributes them to the IGI (International Genealogical Index) but I can't find them there or anywhere else on the FamilySearch web site.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Waddell the Martyr
« on: Sunday 24 March 24 20:21 GMT (UK)  »
Is there a way to send you documents through this site?
Two ways.

You can attach a document to a post in the forum. That's useful for images and short documents, but there are size limits.

Also, now that you have made a few posts, you can use the Personal Messaging system to exchange e-mail addresses. You do that by clicking on the icon like a sheet of paper with a folded corner under the name of the person you want to get in touch with.

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