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Many of my oddest names have more to do with the way they combine rather than the names themselves. The girls name May leads to some interesting combinations.

My daughter in law has a cousin named May Kathleen Dance.

We have a family surnamed Hope. A couple of girls, Alice and Annie, have the middle name May.

I also found Laura May Read. She married Edward James Skidmore.

We also have the surname Maybee. A lot of them seem to have given their children 3 given names like Samuel Orinton Ernest Maybee. It reads as though they couldn’t quite decide.

I know that William Hart and Catherine Leary Hart were living at 14 Prospect place, Rotherhithe in 1880 when their daughter Bertha was born and in 1882 when their son William Henry was born. So they should be there on the 1881 census. Right?

I couldn't find them through creative searching of indices on FamilySearch or Ancestry. I did find 14 Prospect Place on page 57 of Rotherhithe District 17a. There are 2 families at this address at the bottom of the page, but the page does not end with the usual / indicating end of family or // showing the end of the residence. So I expected more occupants on the next page.

However this is is page 57 of 57 on Ancestry. Rotherhithe District 17a just ends. (There are no more 14 Prospect Place entries on the 10 previous pages. I will check the other 47 pages in the district, but I suspect that the file is chopped off.)

On the header page there are additional streets listed after my street, but I have not seen them either.

Does anyone have access to more pages of this census district?

I don’t have access right now to any other UK census records. So for now my wall seems to be thoroughly bricked up.!

A reply to a long ago mystery.  Does anyone remember cousin Lillie, whom we could not pin down?

I suspect that the widow McBride sent her youngest to live with cousins while she and the older kids carved a homestead out of the Ontario forest.

I have just seen her death certificate from 1928 which lists her father Neil McBride and mother Barbara Thompson. They got her age wrong again - birthdate April 15 1856 a whole 5 years after she showed up on the census as 1 month old.

This thread made wonderful reading as a story of cooperative genealogy.

Thanks for the memories.

Sharon

It's a lovely sunny morning in Inverness.

In Portmahomack, there certainly were lots of fishermen. That is the occupation of most of my family. And a lot of people went into the navy and other sea related occupations.

I know David Duff & Ann MacKay

David's parents were David Duff & Ann Duff

That David's parents were Harry Duff and Anne Bruce

Ann Duff's parents were Walter Duff and Ann McKay

Ann McKay's (wife of David Duff) parents were Walter Skinner and Janet Ross who were also the parents of our ancestor Janet Skinner who married Walter Duff

Marlyn, I don't have any more information than you do on David Stewart's ancestry. I wondered about his probate, which does not name many of his children, but the death record of my ancestor, his son John, names David and Margaret as his parents.

I have not found a marriage record either. I suspect it would be in Neilston, about 1801, based on her age and the birth of their first child.

What evidence do you have for the deaths of Margaret Wilson Craig and of Margaret Craig Stewart? I didn't have their actual death dates.

Have you looked at the Scottish naming pattern for children's names of John Stewart and Marion Hutcheson? It may give a clue? Names of David and Margaret's children are: Margaret (her mother), Mary, Jean, William (her father), David, John, Elizabeth, Janet and Ann Mure. I can't account for most of the names.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but keep in touch if you get any more info on a connection between David and John.

Sharon Stewart Duff