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Fife / Re: ARMSTRONG/SINCLAIR in Dunfermline c. 1830
« on: Saturday 23 April 22 16:41 BST (UK)  »
And thank you for the link to the previous queries made back in 2008, when I was exploring this family group previously... I'll go back through those with a fine-tooth comb to glean any further information from those investigations ... I had forgotten about the role of Elspeth BURT (ARMSTRONG) who Isabella was living with along with William SINCLAIR....

Cheers,
Fiona

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Fife / Re: ARMSTRONG/SINCLAIR in Dunfermline c. 1830
« on: Saturday 23 April 22 16:33 BST (UK)  »
Isabella's mother is listed as Mary ARMSTRONG - maiden name SINCLAIR, although she identifies herself as Sinclair in 1881C.

I have looked for her birth using multiple combinations of Isabella, I*, Armstong, Sinclair, Thomas, Mary etc... old parochial births/baptisms across churches...

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Fife / Re: ARMSTRONG/SINCLAIR in Dunfermline c. 1830
« on: Saturday 23 April 22 15:03 BST (UK)  »
Hello All,
I am having another go at breaking through a brick wall, but coming up with no answers as yet.

Isabella ARMSTRONG b. (6) March 1838, Dunfermline
Parents: Thomas ARMSTRONG (coal miner) and Mary SINCLAIR

This information is all gleaned from her 16 April 1855, Dunfermline marriage certificate to Alexander ANDERSON. I have yet to confirm her parents or birth as I am yet to locate a birth record.

The 1841 (White Mire Place) and 1851 (Rumblingwell) censuses have Isabella living with a William SINCLAIR. In the 1851 census she is listed as Williams 'niece', but I assumed he was in fact her grandfather due to his age. Though I may be wrong.

I have no information about her father Thomas ARMSTRONG

All I know about her mother is that she visited Isabella (now ANDERSON) in 1881. Her name is still Mary SINCLAIR b. 1815, Dunfermline, showing that she retained/reverted to her maiden name at this time. One death record for a Mary SINCLAIR occurs in 1886, Dunfermline, but that has her maiden name as STRUTHERS.

It goes without saying, that I have scoured the SP registrations for births/marriages/deaths of all parties involved, but my eyes may no longer be seeing things clearly, so any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.


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Northumberland / Thistleridge Norham c1670's
« on: Wednesday 23 January 19 23:49 GMT (UK)  »
On my quest to find our PERCY's I trolled through England, Northumberland, Parish Registers, 1538-1950 for Norham on a loose lead.

When trying to locate Thistleridge on the map there wasn't a successful outcome...anyone got any ideas as to where this place is?

Cheers

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Northumberland / Re: Christina PERCY -1892, Berwick
« on: Thursday 17 January 19 23:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the burial references for Thomas and his dad Richard.
Just for curiosity purposes, can one access those cemetery records online, or do we need a subscription / fiche / CD???
Cheers,
Fiona

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Northumberland / Re: Christina PERCY -1892, Berwick
« on: Thursday 17 January 19 23:30 GMT (UK)  »
In 1901, if it is the correct one - Christina PERCY can be found as Christina JOHNSTONE once again, b. c1879, Northumberland, aged 22. Which kinda fits with her baptism record "1 Oct 1876
Church of England, Tweedmouth, Northumberland, England", and single. She is a Parlourmaid at 6 Park Hill Rise, Croydon. Which naturally made me cautious because it is so far away from Tweedmouth....but... thinking about the facts that she was married and having a child so young, plus having the baby die, as well as her husband the following year, and not being able to find any Christina/Christian PERCY/JOHNSTSON records for that census period leads me to accept this one as correct.
What do you think?
Fiona

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Northumberland / Re: Christina PERCY -1892, Berwick
« on: Tuesday 15 January 19 03:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Cas,
I think I've located her in 1901 in Croydon in London, b. 1877, Northumberland as a single parlourmaid.

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Northumberland / Christina PERCY -1892, Berwick
« on: Tuesday 15 January 19 00:59 GMT (UK)  »
Good Morning All :)
I have a loose end that I'm hoping could be resolved here.
One Thomas PERCY b. 1872, Berwick Upon Tweed, married one Christina JOHNSTONE b. 1876, Tweedmouth when they found she was pregnant, in March qtr 1892. She was a servant at the time at 1 Yard Heads, and he was an Apprentice Mason, living with parents at Weatherly Square.

Thomas (19 years) was fined for the upkeep of his wife (16 years) when she was about to be 'confined', although her mother apparently wrote a letter stating that her parents would keep her until he had finished his apprenticeship (Berwick Advertiser article - 17 June 1892).

Thomas died the following year, but I've not been able to locate a death notice as to what happened to him as yet. So young Christina with a newborn, Christina PERCY b. July-Sep qtr 1892, Berwick is now .... living with her parents? in the Workhouse? as Christina was when the court was petitioned for her upkeep.

I'm having a struggle locating either of the Christina's in the 1901 / 1911 census records, so hoping for some fresh eyes, or Berwick Workhouse record access if possible.

Cheers,
Fiona

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Northumberland / Re: Margaret PERCY or HOGG, 1832
« on: Monday 07 January 19 01:46 GMT (UK)  »
Added to this query is my search into where both Margaret and Mary HOGG were during the 1841 census period.

I have found one Margaret in a Hexham Union Workhouse, aged 10 years but that seems to be a bit of a distance from her birthplace in Spittal, Northumberland.

So looking around Spittal (Margaret's birthplace), and Mary's supposed birthplace of Lowick (1851 census), Bamber Moor (1861 census), Bowsden (1871 census), and Ban... Building? (1881 census).... I haven't been able to locate them in 1841.

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