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Offline JenB

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Re: Advice with English records
« Reply #9 on: Friday 18 August 17 19:57 BST (UK) »
Are your dates correct?
You have said he was born in 1908 and graduated as a dentist in 1926.
Surely he couldn't be qualified as a dentist at the age of 18?

There is a newspaper record of him as a pupil of Morgan Academy gaining a bursary to University College Dundee in 1926.
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« Reply #10 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:04 BST (UK) »
There are newspapers articles from the late 1920's (Dundee Courier and St Andrews Citizen) that indicate that he studied medicine at St Andrews.
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« Reply #11 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:05 BST (UK) »
No he was just starting unimin 1926. I made a mistake. I'm guessing I wouldn't be able to see if he had children as they could still be alive??

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« Reply #12 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:12 BST (UK) »
I think the supposed dental qualification must be a misunderstanding. A red herring.

You can glean information about his medical career from the medical directories on Ancestry and also from the snippets on Google Books. https://goo.gl/M9aXoR

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« Reply #13 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:14 BST (UK) »

I would be tempted to purchase James' will to see who the beneficiaries were.

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« Reply #14 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:16 BST (UK) »
Where can I get the will from?

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« Reply #15 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:16 BST (UK) »
There's a public tree on Ancestry which has him marrying Pamela Joan Hide (now deceased) in 1941.
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« Reply #16 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:20 BST (UK) »
Is this a possible marriage?  NO!

June qtr 1949
Gloucester Rural Registration District     vol 7b, page 1041

Robertson, James M
Coldrick, Cicely M
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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« Reply #17 on: Friday 18 August 17 20:21 BST (UK) »
Twins born 29 January 1945 (The Times, 31 January 1945). To Pamela Joan ( nee Hide) wife of Dr J M Robertson, 91 High Street, Evesham.
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