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The Common Room / What am I doing wrong???
« on: Tuesday 21 January 20 12:36 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching William Dauney who married Louisa Ellis, probably in Jamaica.

One of their children, William Dauney was born in Aberdeen in 1800, under the name William Downie. This William was later adopted by his uncle Alexander Dauney the Sheriff Substitute in Aberdeen.

This Alexander is the son of the Reverend Francis Dauney who was the minister in Lumphanan from 1742 to 1758 and from 1758 to 1800 in Banchory Ternan.

I am looking for the family ties between William Dauney senior and Francis and his son Alexander. But I cannot find their birth or anything. I have searched in both parishes under

Dauney
Daunie
Dawney
Dawnie
Downey
Downie

But to no avail. Why would the minister not baptise his children??

What on earth am I doing wrong??

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The Common Room / London Parish advice for John Pepwell
« on: Thursday 16 January 20 13:21 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for more information on:

John Pepwell Esq, Bell Dock, Wapping and also his daughter Rebecca Catherine Pepwell. I know that Rebecca was married to William Ellis, apothecary of Fenchurch London by 1776.

But I don't know what year she married and I wonder if there are old parish records that would let me search for father and daughter, her birth and perhaps her marriage to William Ellis.

Rebecca Catherine and her husband later went to Jamaica where they lived at Martha Brae and I think she was known as Catherine, not Rebecca.

I tried to look at parish records but I have no idea which parish to look at as I have no idea where Bell Dock and/or Wapping are (other than in London).

Any advice where to start looking would be much appreciated.

Greenvalley

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / what does it say???
« on: Friday 13 December 19 16:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Guys

can anybody read this?

"was baptized on the 23rd ?????????"

Cheers
Greenvalley

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The Common Room / Why would you not register your children's birth?
« on: Monday 18 November 19 14:02 GMT (UK)  »
Alexander Harris and his wife Sarah Fyfe had 6 children

James, born about 1841 in Kendal, Westmorland, England
Jane, born about 1843, Perth details from census
Margaret 1846 Newburgh, Fyfe, details from census
Alexander 1848 Auchterarder, Perth details from census
John 1854 Newburgh Fyfe details from census
Elizabeth born 1858, properly registered in Dundee because official records had started

So the couple never registered the birth of their children until the last one in 1858. Has anyone come across this? Why would they have avoided registering them?

I have tried every record on Scotlandspeople and BMD for the birth of the oldest son, but found absolutely nothing and can't understand why?

Any ideas anyone?

Greenvalley





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Lanarkshire / Rooms with windows confusion
« on: Sunday 06 October 19 13:48 BST (UK)  »
On quite a number of the Scottish census records the enumerator notes the number of rooms with one or more windows.

Did people live in rooms without windows? Because looking over the records I have seen, they all seem to have at least one room with a window.

Which leads to my next question; do you think that the rooms with windows also totalled the number of rooms they lived in? Or could someone have 2 rooms with windows and anothher 2 without??

Greenvalley


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Address illegible
« on: Tuesday 01 October 19 15:59 BST (UK)  »
I have 2 more entries which I can't read

1887 15th July 5am at ??????? Road Glasgow

and

1889 December 6th at 3hrs 45m AM at ????? Street Glasgow

Better eyes would be much appreciated

Greenvalley

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Housekeeper and what??
« on: Tuesday 01 October 19 13:41 BST (UK)  »
I found a marriage and the bride, Mary Scott is a housekeeper, but what is the word underneath?

Greenvalley

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The Common Room / Modern standards hindering research
« on: Tuesday 01 March 16 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
Am I the only one who sometimes gets things wrong because I think in modern standards when looking at the past?

It took me a while to realise that the fact that baptism records were in say "Balquhidder Parish" is not the same as that person having been born in the town now known as Balquhidder. And even knowing this and the fact that parishes sometimes had little "bits" dotted around the landscape, miles from the church still doesn't stop me from getting things wrong and looking for relatives in the wrong locations.

But now I am beginning to wonder about single mother's in say 1780. If she had a child out of wedlock and the father was already married who would look after the child? The mother? The family of the father?

Thomas Elder was born as the illegitimate son of Alexandrina (Lexy) Walkinshaw and Thomas Elder in 1779, Thomas lived in Glenbeich and the child was baptised in Balquhidder. The couple never married. In 1791 Lexy marries Mr Thomson in Port of Menteith and 10 years later her son Thomas marries and his marriage is registered in both Menteith and Comrie (where his bride came from).

In my mind I always had a picture of young Thomas moving with his mum from Balquhidder to Port of Menteith. But is this really what happened? And if it did how would he have met his future bride from Comrie, which is much closer to Balquhidder than Menteith? And after years of looking at his offspring it only struck me yesterday that he names his first born son Thomas after his own father but none of the girls after his mother Alexandrina. The girl who should have been named after his mum is called Martha. Could that mean he was raised by someone named Martha and not by his mother?

So does anybody know who looked after the children of unmarried mothers? Did they grow up in an institution or with family? Was there a norm or does it all depend on circumstances?

Greenvalley

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Lanarkshire / Green Street Industrial School Glasgow
« on: Sunday 06 October 13 14:31 BST (UK)  »
I found the following information in the Barony Poorhouse records:

7 April 1886 Maria Hardie Matson reapplies for schooling + food for maria 12 5/12 yrs to Green St Day Industrial School

Some records seem to indicate that the Day Industrial School in Glasgow was a Reformatory School - so would that imply that Maria had misbehaved?

I know that the father had abandoned the family. So would Maria go to the Industrial School because she was the daughter of a pauper, or because she'd done something wrong?

I have read a lot of information on the schools, but just can't make up my mind. What do you guys think?

Greenvalley

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