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« on: Monday 03 April 17 12:02 BST (UK) »
Can anyone help, my grandfather was born on Shetland in 1887 John george leslie he was illegitimate and his mother passed her name to him her name was joanah or later JOAN leslie and she was registered as a servant and we asumme whoever she worked for got her pregnant but were not sure. Maybe she had relatives?

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #1 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:22 BST (UK) »
On the 1891 they are in Rutherglen, Glasgow with Jane LESLIE, 64, poss Joan's mother, and George W LESLIE, 22, poss Joan's brother. Joan was 30, John G was 7.

Looks like Joan later married John KERRIGAN according to the 1901.  There is also a half sister Mary Ann Jane KERRIGAN, 6.  They are still in Glasgow.

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ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #2 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:32 BST (UK) »
Going with the above info possible bapt?

Johanna https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ7S-2J3

Possible brother of Joan, John Robert https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQXH-LJ6

1871 Joan https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBGS-4YX
1871 for George in same area, unable to view full census https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBGS-4YN

1881 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM67-GZ3

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #3 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:44 BST (UK) »
1871 Gellertsons Court, Lerwick, Shetlands.
John Leslie, 36
Jane Leslie, 44
James Leslie, 12
Joan Leslie, 10
John R Leslie, 6
George N Leslie, 2
Esther Leslie, 35
Mary Jamieson, 19
Elizabeth Goudie, 18.
ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England


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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #4 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:47 BST (UK) »
1881. Ponds, Dunrossness, Shetlands.

Jane Leslie, 55
Johanna Leslie, 20
George William Leslie, 12
Hannah Leslie, 87.
ROBERTS / ROBERT / ROBERTSON (Paternal) - Dunbartonshire/Stirlingshire, Scotland
NEWEY - Leicestershire, England
FITZGERALD - Co. Cork - Ireland
HOWLETT - Suffolk, England
PHILMORE - Wiltshire, England
CHAPMAN - Cornwall - England
NICHOLLS - Cornwall - England
SHAW - Nottinghamshire, England
PRITCHARD - Salop, England
ROBERTS (Maternal) - Surrey, England

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #5 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:52 BST (UK) »
Is there anyway we could find out who my grandfathers father could have been?

Many thanks

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #6 on: Monday 03 April 17 12:59 BST (UK) »
Have you looked at his marriage or death certificate for possible clues ?



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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #7 on: Monday 03 April 17 13:05 BST (UK) »
All it says on birth certificate is illegitimate and he kept mothers name, she was very young and obviously very difficult in those times to have an illegitimate child and keep it but I'm not sure where to start and as she was down as a servant I wouldn't have thought there were many households who had servants

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Re: Grandfather
« Reply #8 on: Monday 03 April 17 13:24 BST (UK) »
Quite a lot of your ancestry here. Both have the surname Leslie, wonder if related distantly?


http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/familygroup.php?familyID=F25062&tree=ID1

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Census information is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Squire/Thomas/Davies/Gibbons/Mordecai/Bowen/Lewis/Rees/Williams/Jones/Llewellyn/Morgan - Glamorgan
Lewis - Breckonshire
Davies/Roderick - Myddfai Carms
Lloyd/Jones - Denbigh/Salop
Thackwell/Thomas - Hereford/Monmouthshire
Shoemac/Squire/Keirle/Small - Somerset
Berry/Baggot/Lee/Clayton - Lancs
Yelland/Bray/Trethewey - Cornwall
Baggot/Hurley/Keaveny/Shiel/Flynn - Ireland