Possible Gypsy Ancestry? HUTCHISON, Scotland

[Lana2017]

Ah okay it looks like Durham is probably correct then if that's what comes up in the 1861 too. I think you've just found my first English ancestor! 

I'm intrigued by 'dissenter' haven't seen that on any records before...

[Steve G]

" Dissenter " refers to their religion. Other than COE.

[keyboard86]

Hi well you live and learn!

James Marshall the Dissenter and Jane also had baptised in Cornhill:-
William 6th June 1796
Jane 6th December 1797
James 30th July 1799
Think James 1799 also marries an Isabella possibly nee SWAN b Scotland If my memory serves me well!
Keyboard86

Just realised Nicked a phrase from a Bob Dylan lyric!

PS James 1799, was a Blacksmith so the likelyhood of a Gypsy heritage lies with the Hutchison family!

[Lana2017]

Thanks for the details, got them all on my family tree now  a nice surprise as it was looking like that side of the family never left the same area of Scotland for hundreds of years so we've got a bit of variety now with Durham! (also - it's hard not to quote from Bob Dylan - he has so many good lines  )

" Dissenter " refers to their religion. Other than COE

Interesting, I didn't know that. Been reading an article about the English Dissenters, one of the things I like about genealogy is all the little bits of history you learn along the way.

PS James 1799, was a Blacksmith so the likelyhood of a Gypsy heritage lies with the Hutchison family!

Yepp, I've come across a few possible candidates for Mary Hutchison's father, it's just Mary is quite a common name so I can't determine which is the right one - and this is me assuming that they'd be from Midlothian and that Mary's birth year is correct when it's really just an estimate. 

[keyboard86]

Hi again, this family has me confused, and Ancestry is playing up, this is Mary Heywood in 1851 census:-

Mary Heywood 48 Widow b Edinburgh
Agnes 18
Thomas 15
John Balfour 12
Agnes Deas/Deans 7
Residing at Weavers Close, 6, Semple Street
1861 census
Maryann Heywood 55
Agnes Deans 18 b Glasgow
Mary McCall 5
Residing at Weavers Land
1871 census Fountain Bridge:-
John Glasgow 51
Agnes 38
Mary McCall 16

John Glasgow and Agnes are in Semple Street in 1861 census

I have an 1891 census for Agnes Glasgow aged 56 Widow, with Isabella Heywood 24 ? and Mary A Heywood 22 ?shown as Nieces
Where in 1881?
Their must be two Heywood/Haywood families, as in 1901 census an Agnes Glasgow 67 has a Niece Mary Haywood 32  with her ie born c 1869?

OK they are the daughters of her brother Thomas aged 36 occ Engine Driver with wife Elizabeth 27 and within household a Grace Dickson 67 shown as Mother in Law in 1871 census.







PS the "Dylan lyric" was a variation of that on This Wheels on fire by The Band.

[Steve G]

..... one of the things I like about genealogy is all the little bits of history you learn along the way.

  Funny ye should say that. As I said, only last night, Here:

There's so much more, to Family History than copy / paste ancient pedigrees. I think we've just proven that! 

I'm a swine for the DC's. I just Have To know how they finally died! It's interesting and part of the whole picture. Our people were so much more than just a litany of names, even it it does stretch back to 1066 

[hurworth]

What was a "Dissenter" in 1801 Durham /Northumberland anyone!
Keyboard86

I have Northumberland Presbyterians and Baptists in my tree from a little earlier than that.  They'd have been considered to be dissenters.  Some moved to Scotland and I can't find any parish records for some of them, who presumably were still Baptists. 

[Lana2017]

OK they are the daughters of her brother Thomas aged 36 occ Engine Driver with wife Elizabeth 27 and within household a Grace Dickson 67 shown as Mother in Law in 1871 census.

You sussed it out! I vaguely remember coming across those records a while back and just getting horribly confused, couldn't make head nor tail of it. Now I know

[keyboard86]

  Wondering just who the parents are and the reason Mary (Ann ) Heywood has young children in her household who appear to stay with either her or become a Servant for her married daughter Agnes?
Keyboard86