Lasswade birth lookup request

[squatt]

Hello I am trying to locate the births of several muir family members born in lasswade between 1820 and 1835 according to the 1841 census. There details are as follows

1841 Census

Lasswade -Midlothian
Springfield

 
George MUIR 40 Papermaker b Midlothian           
Jannet MUIR 50 b Midlothian           
Liles   MUIR    18 b Midlothian           
James MUIR    16 b Midlothian           
Alexr   MUIR   14 b  Midlothian           
Catheron MUIR   12 b Midlothian           
George MUIR 9 b Midlothian

any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[Forfarian]

Have you drawn a blank at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk?

[squatt]

I have found scotlands people site to be very poor as these sites go. The search returns are very vague giving pages and pages of hits each of which you have to use your tokens to just view, then even more tokens to see the actual records.

I have used of over 90 quids word of tokens without getting near any sort of useful information.


Hence the post...i know the LDS have micro fiches that have some entries for lasswade but i am nowhere near a centre (think there is one in edinburgh?) and remote lookup requests by there staff i think are very expensive (30 quid a shot)

[shanghaipanda]

If you have not already discovered it, there is a family tree on A*y which includes a Lillias Muir (born 1824) and other family members in Lasswade.  If you search for her name on there it will lead you to that particular family tree.  However, you would need to follow up each individual to ensure the validity of the information. It may give you a start.

[squatt]

thanks for the reply shanghai, but that family tree is mine i believe.

The births are not confirmed as they were obtained from the 1841 census hence the reason for looing for confirmation.

regards

[Forfarian]

I have found scotlands people site to be very poor as these sites go. The search returns are very vague giving pages and pages of hits each of which you have to use your tokens to just view, then even more tokens to see the actual records.

I depends entirely what you are trying to find. See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=562668.0 for how to refine your search to get useful results.

If you want to research your Scottish family then love it or hate it, there is no alternative to SP. See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0

There are lots of web sites with finding aids to help you home in on the information you want.

http://www.freecen.org.uk/ has most of the 1841 and 1851 census for much of Scotland, and https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi has indexes to baptisms and marriages to about 1874. However these are neither comprehensive nor 100% accurate, and they contain some spurious and downright misleading information, so must never be regarded as a substitute for the original documents which are available only on SP. Ancestry has transcriptions of the census, but these at notorious for transcription errors and cannot be relied on to be correct.

I searched for baptisms of Muir (soundex), father George, mother Jan*t, in Midlothian, Lasswade, between 1810 and 1841, and there are no matches. This means that the baptisms were either not recorded in the Church of Scotland parish registers, or if they were the records have not survived.

They could be in the Roman Catholic registers (on SP), or in one of the dissenting church registers in the National Records of Scotland, or in a register of the Episcopal Church which you would have to track down in either diocesan or some other archive.

[beginer]

hi
if you e-mail the Scottish genealogy society in Victoria terrace Edinburgh I am sure they will either advise or help  the volunteers are very good their web site is www.scotsgenealogy.com