William clark porter glasgow

[Balmoral1963]

Can anyone help looking for information on my father William clark Porter born 1924 Glasgow  . Don't know much about my fathers family history prior to his marriage to my mother Kathryn bell pettegrew walker-love in 1955 ? Thank you

[chempat]

Welcome to rootschat, Balmoral.

Have you got his birth certificate with his parents' names?

[chempat]

ScotlandsPeople has a possible birth in 1923 in Dennistoun, where did you get the 1924 birth from?

Thanks

[Girl Guide]

If you have your parents marriage certificate that should tell you who his father is.  I think I am right in saying that Scottish certificates show the mother's name as well.

The marriage is also on Scotlands People which can be ordered on the website as can the birth certificate.  Cost is £12 per certificate.

[rosie17]

Hi and welcome to rootschat as the other's have suggested a copy of the birth certificate or marriage will give you parent's  names ...www.scotlandspeople.gov good luck with your research

Rosie 

[Balmoral1963]

Thank you chempat regarding William clark porter am sure it is the Denniston one have ordered copy thank you for your help .

To find out about siblings is census the best way ?


Thanks

[Girl Guide]

If you are thinking about siblings for your Father you won't find any through census records as they only go up to 1911.

However you may well find your grandfather and those before him on the census records.

Doing quick calculations in my head would suggest that you should be able to find William's father in the 1911 census.

Scotland's People for some reason don't show mother's maiden names which would have helped in looking for any siblings for William.

I have found a list of 13 Porter births in Dennistoun between 1918 and 1930.  Some of those could be siblings but with no mother's maiden name no way of telling.

[Forfarian]

Scotland's People for some reason don't show mother's maiden names which would have helped in looking for any siblings for William.

The reason why SP does not show mothers' maiden surnames is that this information was not included in the original indexes. What  SP has is the indexes as they were compiled by the GROS. Mothers' maiden names were not included in the births index until 1929. This is less than the 100-year cut-off for viewing birth certificates online, and GROS has decided that mothers' maiden surnames will not be shown on SP's online index of births less than 100 years ago.

They are gradually adding mothers' maiden surnames to the older birth indexes (from 1855) but there is a long way to go until they get to 1916, let alone 1928.

Mothers' names, including their maiden surnames, are indeed shown on Scottish marriage certificates, and the names of the parents of the deceased should be shown on all death certificates, assuming of course that the informant knew this information.

BTW All Scottish BMD indexes, unlike the England and Wales ones from 1911 onwards, always show middle names in full unless someone has so many middle names that the full name is too long to fit in the index.

[Girl Guide]

Oh right, thanks for that information Forfarian.  Not well up on Scottish records so I've learned something new.

How do people look for siblings if the birth is after the cut off date?