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Age discrepencies
« on: Saturday 15 September 18 12:38 BST (UK) »
This can send you round the bend.

Since I first found Ann Finnie in the 1851 in Dunfermline as a Nursery Assistant she was age 18.

I had an absolutely awful time attaching her to her (now correct hopefully) Parents - from Airdrie.

have spent hours searching and stressing.. and checking etc..

she married my Robert Sutherland, and they had a large interesting family.

Now this week we are going up to check on them all :) :) (ha ha)  and I have been given her 'Lair' number.. and dates etc.. but there is 10 years difference --
Her death cert states 56 Typhoid.. burial dates - differ too..

Death cert states :       1887 - July 26th age 56.
Burial information says 1884   July 28th age 66

So  the informant on her death was Robert, so maybe he just guessed..

I have all the census consistent with her birth being abt 1833..
Surely she couldnt have pretended to be 19 when she was 29...?????

Anyhow -
It does make me wonder why I never managed to find an actual birth for her.. and if I look again will I find that  and maybe then I will have the incorrect Thomas and Mary.. Finney !!!!!

You just don't know...

the little devils...

xin


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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 15 September 18 13:05 BST (UK) »
Dying July 26th and being buried July 28th makes sense, but ...

Could the age and date discrepancies be explained by mistakes in transcriptions? I can see that it would be easy to confuse a 56 and a 66 - depending on the writing the numbers can look very similar. Perhaps the same with a 4 rather than 7 in 1887.

Have you seen a copy of the d/c and the original burial details?


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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 15 September 18 14:42 BST (UK) »
Have the death cert and yes
agree it could well be transcription errors.. along the line 

Spent some time just now re-checking births in Airdrie... to no avail.

so will wait until I see the headstone -- hopefully if there is one.

but it just shows how difficult this research business can be.


xin   :)

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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 15 September 18 15:16 BST (UK) »
Also, if the death and/or burial information was given verbally, it could easily be a mishearing of 56 for 66, or vice versa. 
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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 15 September 18 16:56 BST (UK) »
 :)

yes  that something to consider... :)

xin

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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 15 September 18 17:02 BST (UK) »
It can be normal for census to be out 5 years or so.  Regarding a birth certificate you prob wont find one before 1855 as wasnt compulsory and had to pay for them.  Checking baptism records might be more useful and help you trace further back.
Ferguson (st fillans, comrie)
Garnock (lothian, fife)
Valet (london, switzerland)
Butcher (ramsgate, glasgow)
Blackbird (durham,  newcastle)
Barr (ayrshire, ireland)
Fleming (paisley)
Crone, croney ,(dumfriesshire, ireland)

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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 15 September 18 17:51 BST (UK) »
Xinia does it give  Ann's moher's ms on he death cert

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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 15 September 18 20:34 BST (UK) »
I have her as Mary McCallum..

will check


xin

just checked and all it has is her mothers first name, so no to surname.


but I have added the marriage of Thomas to Mary McCallum.. so must have searched well and hard to end up with that.. its all some 10yrs ago that side of things now.. so all filed nicely.. have the information I have on hand so ..
I know I have attempted to find the baptism... will check again as Mary McCallum dies around 1844 and Thomas marries again to Christian Davison  -

xin

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Re: Age discrepencies
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 15 September 18 21:29 BST (UK) »
Hi Xinia sorry I don't think that is the right Thomas Finnie that marriage took place in Aberdeenshire and have found Thomas and Christian in Lonmay and it says he was born in New Deer Aberdeenshire and possibly Thomas as an ag lab in 1841 at Old Deer with 2 other men in the house sorry