« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 10 March 15 09:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Everyone,
This is from a while back and I know I've learned a lot from Rootschat since this was posted! I think what I really need to do is find Alexander Stirling alive on the 1841 census. At Freecen (I don't even think I was even aware of Freecen when I posted this originally) I've recently found the following:
SKIRLING Alexr M 20 Ag Lab Angus Aberlemno - living in a Bothie ( it might be Fleemington Bothie as that's the pervious household which is all female while the one Alexander is in is all male).
I've tried searching on forename Al* surname S*G and this chap is the best candidate in Forfarshire (where he says he was born), Kincardineshire and Perthshire that I can find. My GG grandmother Euphemia Stirling was born in 1849 at Balinshoe which is about 9 nines from Aberlemno. From Kay's find it looks like Alexander may have died before 1851 when Ann Wilosn his wife is decribing herself as a widow.
Can anyone see another Alexander 'Stirling' worth following through on?
Jen
North East Scotland above the Tay...
JOLLY, Johnston,Thom, Rae, Davidson, Fielding, Sherret
FEARN, McKenzie, Stirling [brick wall], Robb, Wilson, Stott
RUSSELL, Fullerton, Christie, Cochrane, Davidson, Coutts, Easton, Scott
FRASER, Henderson, Noble, Mundie, Goodall, Thain, Neish, Moir