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Dear Gadget

Have found this entry on the IGI - James Oswald Dickson born 18 January 1872 at Falkirk, Stirling Mother Margaret Dickson and confirmed it with a birth entry from Scotlandspeople.   James was shown as Illegitimate but I can't understand the address where he was born.  Do you have access to this birth entry?   Margaret Dickson was born at Stirling, Parish Falkirk and this looks like the James I have been looking for and am hoping this is the correct Margaret Dickson.
Regards,
Grace

Thank you Steve for the Dickson births.  I will check the census.   i appreciate your reply.

Regards, Grace

Hello Gadget and hume24
Many thanks for your replies.  I realize now that I should have given more information in my first message.

Margaret Dickson married David Archibald on 31 December 1875 at 2 Romily Place, Edinburgh.  I have a copy of this certificate and the parents listed for David are definitely correct.  I did find the James Archibald you mentioned born 1873 Linlithgow but he was not my James.

I am inclined to think that my James Archibald was never registered at birth - he was born before the parents married.  Why I mentioned he was born 1873-1875 was because.

1.  1881 census he was shown as age 5 b. about 1875/1876
2.  When the family emigrated to Australia in 1885,  James was shown as age
     12. (b. about 1873)
3.  When he died at Brisbane, Queensland in 1955 his age was 82 yrs (b. abt
     1873

When he married in 1919 he gave his name as James Dickson Archibald and
stated his age as 39 yrs. which was not correct.   He married Alice Snell who was 29 yrs at the time.  He probably did not want to admit that he was 46 yrs.

I have been trying to find a birth entry for David Johnston Archibald born on
28 February 1882 probably at Edinburgh.   His brother Thomas Dickson Archibald was born on 8 January 1880 South Leith, parents David Johnston Archibald and Margaret Dickson.  The reason I have been trying to find David Johnston Archibald b. 1882 is - I believe he was registered at birth as David Johnston Archibald but when he married in Canada he gave his name as David Dickson Archibald and his death notice also shows his name as David Dickson Archibald.  Would appreciate your help please.

This family did move about.  They emigrated from Scotland to Quensland, Australia in 1885 and in 1898 emigrated from Australia to British Columbia, Canada.

Thanks for your help and regards,
Grace

Hello,

Would appreciate help please.   I am trying to find a birth entry for Margaret/Mary Hill Dickson, daughter of Robert Dickson and Elizabeth Park, belived to be born at Bainsford, Sterlingshire 1855-1857.

Grace Parker

Thanks Jorose for your reply.   
The mother Agnes Gordon Hendry was buried at Capilano View Cemetery, West Vancouver.    Can you help me please with an address as to where I can find burials at this cemetery.
Thanks,
Grace