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Lost birth certificate?
« on: Wednesday 01 November 17 16:09 GMT (UK) »
Seeking a birth certificate for a Euphemia Greg Miller Masterton, born circa 1853 in Inverkeithing. Not having any luck searching ScotlandsPeople. Her parents were Adam Masterton and Jane/Jean Drysdale, married in Inverkeithing in 1831.

1861 census has her transcribed as Giuseppina G M Masterton in Inverkeithing.
1871 as Euphemia Greg Miller Masterton - in Greenock.

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Re: Lost birth certificate?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 16:17 GMT (UK) »
Hello there ethorn and welcome to Rootschat.

Can I just confirm that she was born after her parents had been married for 22 years?

Carol
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Re: Lost birth certificate?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 16:54 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: carol8353 on Wednesday 01 November 17 16:17 GMT (UK)
Hello there ethorn and welcome to Rootschat.

Can I just confirm that she was born after her parents had been married for 22 years?

Carol

Hi Carol,
Yes. In total, the couple had 11 children between 1832 and 1853.

ethorn

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Re: Lost birth certificate?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 17:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi , and welcome  :)

Two of the later children were born in South Leith(1848 & 1850) , but I can't see anything for Euphemia.
Someone else was enquiring about the drysdale's a while back.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=780047.msg6342584#msg6342584


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Re: Lost birth certificate?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 18:49 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: ethorn on Wednesday 01 November 17 16:09 GMT (UK)
Seeking a birth certificate for a Euphemia Greg Miller Masterton, born circa 1853
You will seek in vain, I'm afraid. Statutory civil registration began in Scotland in 1855, and before then there was no such thing as a birth certificate.

It looks as if only 3 of the 11 baptisms are in the C of S registers on Scotland's People, and there are 8 in the 'other churches'.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Lost birth certificate?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 18:54 GMT (UK) »
Her siblings born in Inverkeithing were baptised at Inverkeithing Associate Congregation (9 baptisms there on familysearch.org).   

However, if she was duly baptised in the same place (which would seem likely) this record does not appear to be available online.    Baptisms for this church on familysearch only go up to 1846 i.e. none between 1847 and 1854.

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 01 November 17 19:23 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for all of your responses everyone  :)

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 30 December 18 00:53 GMT (UK) »
Here's Euphemia's page on my Masterton website. I haven't located an Old Parish Record for her baptism, but approx date and place of birth taken from census returns.

http://www.themastertons.org/genealogy_tng/getperson.php?personID=I920&tree=culross

Hope this helps.

Gordon Masterton
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