I suppose this my biggest problem yet - A marriage certificate - we have a William Shaw usual address Tomintoul and Mary Laing usual address Banchory marrying somewhere in Glenmuick - Ballater - 27th Oct 1875 -?
? - Glengairn in Glenmuick - any ideas as to the at? - More so my problem carrys on as neither are from that area at the time of the marriage - William is born Tomintoul and Mary is born Banchory - William is 34 and a Shepherd and Mary is 21 and a servant - but as to how they both ended up in Glenmuick together I have no idea - but just to make life easier they both end up in Keig where they have their last child - James - Born 1892 - my great grandfather - so just how many children did they had between 1875 and 1892 - and where - no idea - William was actually born in 1839 - but all census's and marriage show up as Williams birth as 1841 - no big problem I hear you say - but as there is actually a few Williams and Alexs residing in Tomintoul all around that time - I would not like to find there has been a bit of a mix up in finding there may more that one Alex Shaw who married a Isobel Mcintosh in the Tomintoul area - who are Williams parents as this could deflect my true linage - this is quite important as I can already see from what may be my William Shaw's of Delachule who was born 1770 and married Ephy Grant of Findon - Tomintoul in 1795 his father William Shaw who married a Isobel Mcintosh from Croy and Dalcross that the Rev Lachlan Shaw may well be correct that we are from the great linage originating from Shaw Macduff son of Duncan the 5th of Fife and who took on the Mcintosh name and the rest is history
and Yes sorry to my Grandma Eleanor Manson Johnson who has her own great history back to the Orkney Isles and beyond the water and to my Grandpa Donald I should have listened better as a child - love you both x X x
