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Lanarkshire / Anyone off to the Mitchell?
« on: Thursday 02 February 12 11:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I just wondering if anyone is going to be at the Mitchell any time soon and would have the time to check something for me. Its a Govan poor relief record which I have the date for.  If not, no worries.

Thanks

Robert

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Scotland / Road accident- where to look next
« on: Wednesday 01 February 12 00:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction. My maternal grandfather died in a road accident in 1969. His side of the family don't get on so getting info from family is hopeless. So I want to try to find out for myself.

Thanks to Google scanning the Herlad and Evening times I found the following written in the Evening Times on 31 April 1969:

"The cyclist, killed yesterday after his bicycle was in a collision with a car on the Kilsyth-Kirkintilloch road near Queenzieburn, Stirlingshire, yesterday, has been identified as Mr Arthur Parker (42), of 12 Spey Street, Riddrie, Glasgow who leaves a wife and six children. A Spokesman for Kilsyth Police said a report on the accident would sent to the procurator fiscal."

I am guessing that as a report was sent there was a chance of a court case but having trawled through 3 months worth of both papers (A long haul I can tell you!) can find nothing. So starting to give up on that route as it may not have gone to court, may not have been reported in the papers or in the tedium of trawling I may even have missed it and don't fancy retracing.

I did note though in the  NAS online catalogue these two items listed:

CS46/1971/869, Charlotte H Fullerton or Parker (Pursuer) v Iain Macrae (Defender): Expenses, 1971
CS258/1971/6355, Charlotte H. Fullerton or Parker and others v Iain MacRae: Damages, 1971

This was his wife and given the timing I am assuming it has something to do with his death. I can't get to the NAS and not even sure if those records would hold any information.

I am just wondering if anyone can suggest another path to look down. My main reason for this is to find out what happened. But to be honest also I carry the faint hope that it may have been reported in the papers with a photo as I have never seen what he looks like.

Any help appreciated,

Robert

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Scotland / Informant
« on: Thursday 19 January 12 23:20 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Can anyone please tell me if its the informant recorded on a death record who gives all the details relating to the deceased?

The reason I ask is I am looking at a death record of a man named Thomas in 1855. Being of this year there is a lot of information but the informant is a son-in-law and some of it looks incorrect. The one that is bothering me is his mother. to my knowledge by the time he died his wife and parents had already passed away. On the record rightly deceased is written below his father and wife but not mother which I find strange. There is a site that has a photo of the headstone for his mother reported as 1829 but I have not seen it yet. So I am wondering if the information is likely to be incorrect- if the details are provided by the son-in-law then he may not of have known either way.

Thanks

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Fife / Robert Drummond of Fife
« on: Wednesday 11 June 08 15:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I'm trying to track down the parents of a Mary Drummond who claimed to be born in Masterton, Fife though there is no entry in the IGI. What I do know for sure is that she married in Dunfermline in 1822. Various records point to her birth being around 1802 though her age fluctuates quite a bit.

In 1877 (aged 75yo) she made an application to the Govan Poor house for relief and within that document it records her parents being Robert and Margaret Drummond.

I've posted this in the hope that it might tie in with someone else's research. After Mary's marriage in 1822 she lived the rest of her life in Barony, Lanark.

 

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Occupation Interests / Early 19th centuary Engineer
« on: Saturday 21 July 07 13:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I have an ancestor who was described as an Engineer at the time of the 1841 census which seems a bit vague to me. His occupation changes quite a bit so I was wondering whether that was just a general term given to alot of occupation under the one umberella.

As follows his occupation was described as the following:

1822 Engineer (ref- Marriage Dunfermline)
1824 Mill Wright (ref- Birth of child Glasgow)
1826 Engineer (ref- Birth of child Glasgow)
1830 Seaman (ref- Birth of child Glasgow)
1841 Engineer (ref- Census Glasgow)
1843 Chief Engineer of Steam Ship (ref- Death Glasgow)

At various times in his children's marriage and death records he is referred to as Engineer or Marine Engineer which would obviously relate to his last occupation on the steamers.

I was just wondering if this term engineer would have allowed room for manouver between industries. In Dunfermline in the early 1820s the most numerous occupation was weaving so I suspect he could have been working in a cotton mill or the like. The annals of Dunfermline report a depression of some sort in 1826 with "hundreds of weavers out of work" so I'm guess that was foreseen and he moved to Glasgow where there were plenty of mills.

When he died he worked on steamers which for me is a very different occupation. It must have required a transition of some sort. On his death it was said he worked for the company since it's commencement- that company I take to be the Royal Steam Packet Company who I think commenced in 1840 so it may well have been the occupation to him was a very new and short one.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / The pendant
« on: Thursday 12 July 07 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Apologies if I have posted this in the wrong forum. I know it's not photo restoration but the people frequenting this forum seem the best qualified to answer a query I have.

Recently I recieved a photo of an ancestor which looks to have been taken around 1900. A very quick summary:

born: 1856 Glasgow, Sco.
1871-1885: Living in Liverpool, Eng.
1885-1920s: Living in New York, USA.

The photo was taken in Glasgow at a time when he was living in the USA so it must have been on a visit which is why the photo intrigues me so much. He was a brass founder by trade and in the photograph he is wearing a pendant of some sort. Why I don't know nor know what it is. If this had been from his home then he must have brought it with him on his visit to be photographed with.

What I wanted to ask was whether anyone had a photo of something similar and knows whether it was trade related or just ornamental for the sake of having a photo taken?

Cheers

Robert

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Buteshire / Gilmours
« on: Thursday 28 June 07 18:05 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm looking to see if there is anyone researching any Gilmours from Bute. They were living around Port Bannatyne and Kingarth with a possbile connection to the Black family from Kingarth. The Gilmours were originally from Glasgow. Alexander and Marion moved there in the early 1900s settling in Port Bannatyne and their son William was in Kingarth in the 1940s. Other children may have been there too. The other children I know of were John, Robert, Marion and Alexander.

Marion died there in 1949 and Alexander died there in 1937.

Cheers

Robert

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Occupation Interests / Brass Finisher
« on: Thursday 28 June 07 17:57 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know what being a brass finisher entailed? I have ancestors who were either brass fouders/moulders or coppersmiths but this one appears to have deviated a little.

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Lanarkshire / Southern Necropolis
« on: Thursday 24 May 07 19:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Is there anyone visiting the Southern Necropolis in the near future that has access to a digital camera? I'm hoping that someone can take a photograph if possible as I have an ancestor who is buried there. Although there are photos online I'd prefer one that I may also be able to use in future for my website but primarily at the moment it's for my own records.

My ancestor died aged 11 days old and I doubt there is a headstone for him so I'm just looking for a general shot.

Many thanks,

Robert

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