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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Today at 16:59 »
I think you'll find it quite difficult to get much further back with them at all. The missing marriage record won't make much difference because it would probably not have contained any information about Charles' or Marjory's parents in any case.

If I were you I would look at as many M*cArthur/M*cIntosh baptisms as possible, in the hope that they list the witnesses to the baptisms, and if so that the witnesses provide clues. Who were the witnesses to the baptisms of Charles and Marjory, and did Charles and Marjory witness the baptisms of other children in Cawdor?

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Births index lists Donald Walter Darwood, mother's surname Urquhart, born in Edinburgh St George in 1887. The birth certificate will tell you the full names of both parents and when and where they were married.

Margaret Urquhart or Darwood, 46, died in Edinburgh St Andrew in 1890, mother's maiden surname Mathieson. Her death certificate should tell you the full names of both her parents.

Henry Darwood, 78, died in Barrhead and Levern in 1924, mother's surname Morrison.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Today at 09:07 »
Curious digression.

In the Old Parish Registers there are 19 marriages of a male M*cArthur to a female M*cIntosh in the whole of Scotland before 1855, of which no fewer than seven were in the tiny county of Nairn.

The marriage of Charles McA and Marjory McI is not in the surviving records.

I we assume that they too were married in the County of Nairn, that would make eight out of 20, or 40%. An astonishingly high proportion.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 22:24 »
In the 1851, Duncan is 59, and census day was 30 March 1851. Therefore, if his age is accurate, he was born between 30 March 1791 and 29 March 1792. Duncan Macarthur, son of Charles McArthur and Marjory McIntosh, is an exact match.

Jane/Jean McArthur or Gowans' death certificate gives her parents as Charles McArthur and May McIntosh. May is a very common variant of Marjory, so that's great work, Neale.

There seem to be rather a lot of M*cArthur/M*cIntosh couples having children baptised around that time. There's an Alexander M*cArthur and Jean/Jane/Janet M*cIntosh in Nairn, and a Donald M*cArthur and (another) Marjory M*cIntosh not all that far away in Duthil and Rothiemurchus (Aviemore area for those not familiar with the locations of parishes in this neck of the woods).

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:45 »
The Will might make interesting reading.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:40 »
The merchant is most likely, in my opinion.
I agree.

Your subsequent find seems to clinch it. There can't be all that many wine merchants called Duncan Macarthur born in Scotland and living in London.

Would his marriage to Fanny Payne say if he was a widower?

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Yesterday at 21:26 »
That's great, well done :)

There are two Duncan M(a)cArthurs in England in the 1841 census who could be yours, both born in Scotland and living in London.

One is a merchant, aged 45, with wife Fanny and daughters Fanny, 9 and Charlotte, 8; the other a baker, aged 43, with wife Jane and son David Alexander, 8.

Your Duncan's parents may have died, or possibly his mother died and his father married again.


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Roxburghshire / Re: Hawick and the Great War 1914-1919
« on: Yesterday at 17:11 »
The best way to find burial records is to contact the relevant local authority, in this case Scottish Borders https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/burials-cemeteries/searching-burial-records - if they don't hold the records they will know who does.

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Lanarkshire / Re: John Waddell the Martyr
« on: Monday 25 March 24 10:55 GMT (UK)  »
The plot thickens!

Those dates of birth for the supposed sons of William W 'Crown of London' come from https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/1weddle.html and they match the dates of baptism of some of the family of William Waddell and his wife Mary in Dover, Kent

William, baptised 23 or 28 January 1705, buried 5 May 1705
Thomas, baptised 24 February 1706
William, baptised 29 October 1710
Sarah, baptised 29 September 1712
John, baptised 3 October 1714
Mary, buried 1 September 1715.

These are only index listings from the parish register of St Mary the Virgin, Dover. I do not have access to the original documents.

If, as that web site suggests, Mary Irvine was born in 1660, she would have been too old to be the mother of John, and probably of any of them. Also why were they in Dover rather than in Ireland?

The late Caraline Wilfreda Bingley collected a vast amount of information about the Waddells of Ireland, and she states (twice) that the William Waddell whom Mary Irvine married was the son of William 'Crown of London'. This would make far more sense. He could have been a younger brother of the progenitor of the Waddells of Ouley, whose sons went to seek their fortunes in America, leaving their uncle to found the Ouley dynasty back home.

The crucial bit of information needed to progress this is the maiden surname of Mary, mother of those children baptised (or buried) in Dover between 1705 and 1715.







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