Help....can't find James Currie's mother!

[kshaw]

I am helping a friend with her family history and have run into a bit of a query.... I have a marriage record for  James Currie (a mason/ journeyman) 18 & Margaret Sharkey 18 of Glasgow dated 12 April 1878.

Her parents were listed as John & Margaret (m.s. Taylor) which I have confirmed is correct.

His parents were listed as John and Margaret (m.s. Marr or Mars) I am having a really hard time finding any records, what- so- ever for his parents....ever document I've found has a different mother listed.

I can't find a record of a death for a Margaret Currie m.s. Marr or Mars, it doesn't say deceased next to any of the parents....so I can only assume that she was alive to give her maiden surname.

I do know that James's dad was John Currie and was a mason from the Glasgow area...however his mother is just a mystery. I know that I have the right marriage record, I just can't figure out why there is no record of the mother  being named Margaret Marr or Mars.

Any help would be great.... even if it's just a thought. K

[MonicaL]

Just for reference for others, is this James and wife Margaret in 1881:

James Currie 21 mason b. Glasgow
Margaret Currie 21 dealer b. Glasgow
James Currie 2 b. Glasgow
Mary Hope 29 lodger Shirt Machinist b. Ireland

Address: 26 Duke Street, Glasgow Blackfriars

Monica

[kshaw]

Yes I think so.... that is the only one that I've found that matches. I have them in the 1891 census at 4 Buchanan Lane, Glasgow.
I just can't find info on his (James Currie 1860 Glasgow area) mother

[kshaw]

Funny thing is this is the only BC I can find for him but the mother's name is different....

[jennywren001]

Hi,
Looks like the father is deceased at the time of the marriage - perhaps the mother remarried?
Don't think it's likely that someone changes occupation from iron moulder (on BC) to mason (on MC)- although anything is impossible.
Jen

[flst]

What does John Currie's death certificate say? Was Margaret the informant?
flst

[MonicaL]

Hi flst and Jen.

I was just looking for a possible death for John Currie and see some reference on some people's family trees to some of the children in Canada. Did they all head out there as a family?

Children's names as at 1891 don't really help much do they:

James Currie 31
Margaret Currie 31
James Currie 12
Margaret Currie 9 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTXZ-LZG
Neil Currie 5
Lizzie Currie 2
Mary Currie 10 Months
Agnes Fraser 7 relative
Address: 4 Buchanan Lane, Glasgow Calton

One further birth showing here https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTFS-JJC

Monica

[jennywren001]

Hi All,
Have you found them on the 61 census?  At least you'd get an inclination of where James was born? I see a marriage for a Peter Currie and a Margaret 'Munn' but that's not till 1866 .
Jen
Sorry that should have been John Currie and Margaret Munn - there are actually three marriages of a John Currie to a Munn, Glasgow - Margaret in 1866, Dunbarton - Mary in 1861 and Glasgow -Isabella in 1863. Not much use though if the name's Marr

[loobylooayr]

Apologies if this is already been stated but for some reason I can't view the attachments in the replies but I think Margaret Currie's maiden name on the marriage cert is Man
Looby