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Sarah DUFFIN
« on: Wednesday 12 February 14 19:10 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone help me translate the maiden name of Sarah DUFFIN ???
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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:17 GMT (UK) »
McHalcross/ McHalcrow?
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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:20 GMT (UK) »
McHALCROW looks about right but is there such a surname?

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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:31 GMT (UK) »
I know of a family called Halcrow, which is possibly why I think that's  what it may be. Mc usually means 'son of' I think- haven't heard of McHalcrow either! Just a guess- someone else may come up with something different! Good luck
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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 12 February 14 21:37 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks ;D
All information taken from my personal database compiled from original sources - Crown Copyright acknowledge as stated.
Family names:SPINK (WRY), GOODWIN (DBY), PRATT (SCT & WRY), WILDGOOSE (DBY), STRETTON (LEI & DBY), MARTIN(ANS), NICOLL(ANS), McKENNA(TYR), STRAIN(DON), WALLACE(FIF), RAE(STI), PENMAN(STI) & CAPPIE(ELN).

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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #5 on: Monday 10 March 14 21:55 GMT (UK) »
Have you had a look for Sarah's death certificate ??
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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 12 March 14 08:22 GMT (UK) »
Hmmm. There is no death of a female Sa* D*f*n in the indexes at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk so there is not much prospect of finding Sarah's maiden surname there.

The easiest way to find the answer to your question should be to find James' own death certificate.

James Duffin, wife Mary and assorted children are in the 1881 census in Larbert. James' age is given as 61, suggesting he was born around 1819/1820, and his birthplace as Londonderry, Ireland.

The index at Scotland's People lists the death of a James Duffin, aged 62, in 1883 in Larbert. Have you got this death certificate? Does it tell you his mother's maiden surname?

If James was born around 1819 and married Mary Penman in 1861, he was over 40 when he married. Could Mary have been a second wife? There is a James Duffin, aged 30, born Ireland, a labourer, with Scots-born wife Isabella and a son James, aged 1. Could this be your James?

If the death certificate doesn't give his mother's maiden surname you will have to look for a baptism in Derry/Londonderry.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Sarah DUFFIN
« Reply #7 on: Friday 18 September 15 21:22 BST (UK) »
I have found that it always helps to look at the siblings to see whether the names of parents are any clearer on their records.

I have a Jane Duffin marrying an Alexander Penman in Kinnaird, Larbert in 1861. In their case the m.s. of Jane Duffin appears to McGlachlan.
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