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I did try Scottish records and didn't find any trace. Harry says New Galloway in census etc.  I have Mary in early Scottish census as different surname to mother who was down as Mary Jamieson. She had 3 children with different surnames which it said she was mother of. William Jamieson is in different census then Mary goes to be housekeeper. So I am yet again confused as the Mary mother of Mary I traced through census records never married. Unless there are 2 Marys.

This is conversation I had elsewhere.  http://www.forum.familyhistory.uk.com/archive/index.php/t-11962.html 

Can't find his birth registration details.
 Did have it but computer hard drive crashed & lost some data when I retrieved it.  Heather Thompson said she remembered travelling by tram to see her. She had gone blind by then she said. She said she was a fearsome old lady. Heather wasn't born till 1948. Unless she was mistaken as she was very young she said. I have 1953 for Mabels death.

I think Wortley could be right for Harry. 

His birth was registered at Lancaster and his baptism was at Warton so do not understand where you get Scottish Birth from.
 His father Stephen Thompson was a Quarryman and died before Harry was born. It is a mystery to me as to why he claimed Scottish Birth & certainly his grand-daughter believed he was Scottish. All I can think of is that as his father died before he was born he somehow decided he was Scottish. There are a number of strange entries in the Thompson family such as his mother claiming her Uncle as father in marriage certificate. Her father's surname is listed in earlier Scottish census records and I can only assume she was covering up her illegitimate birth. I have had Harry's birth in Warton confirmed by other close Thompson relatives since my initial enquiry.

I too haven't found his death certificate. Unfortunately my original sources of information including my mother in law have since died. There are still relatives in and around Lancaster but we have lost links with them for some time now. 

That depends on when the Comp was built and where it is. I haven't been to Ashfield for about 12 years.

There is a huge variation in the spellings but I am willing to bet that they all have the same root way back. As far as I can tell the name seems to be prevalent in the Flanders area and the French Spanish border.

The Flanders connection seems to be with the armourers. 2 early references to Bullivants I have found were for armour makers, one in Nottingham and one in Yorkshire. Though there is also a Bullivants Mill in Camden town that goes a long way back and some early farmers and millers in Norfolk. 

These early Bullivants Bollivents Buddivents whatever way you spell them came over much earlier than the Hugenots so although there may have been Hugenot Bullivants it doesn't seem the main reason for them being in Britain.


The root for the name seems to come from the French name for a village on a windy hilltop, and there are French people with the name de Bullivant which would suggest there is a place called Bullivant or similar.