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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Shaw
« on: Friday 31 May 24 15:02 BST (UK)  »
Forgot to add - re birth discrepancy - prior to 1855 there was no official record (birth certificate) so the person when giving their date of birth may give the wrong day, month or year or all dates.
Tom Shaw

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Shaw
« on: Friday 31 May 24 14:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I have Samuel Shaw and Nicholas Laing in my tree.  Samuel (1785 - 1865) is my 1st cousin 6 times removed.

Regarding the different birth dates, most churches recorded the date of baptism.  Some also recorded the date of birth. Baptisms can be years after the child's birth. Also, ministers in Scotland were not required to record the birth/baptism. It depended if the minister could be bothered to write it down.

Tom

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Durham / Re: Black Horse, County Durham
« on: Thursday 14 September 23 13:42 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks to all

Tom

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Durham / Black Horse, County Durham
« on: Thursday 14 September 23 10:30 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I have an Isabella Kirtley born c1871, and in the 1881 census for Whitworth (Spennymoor) her place of birth is given as Durham, Black Horse.

Any ideas where that could be?
Thanks
Tom

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Westmorland / Re: Registration of a death
« on: Tuesday 10 January 23 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your help everyone.

Tom

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Westmorland / Registration of a death
« on: Tuesday 10 January 23 15:31 GMT (UK)  »
If a death occurred at the Westmorland Sanitorium in 1913, what registration district would it come under?

Thanks.

Tom

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Other Countries / Re: Bone family in Argentina
« on: Tuesday 16 November 21 15:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Skoosh,

Yes, story is he was sent over with the cattle to care for them on the journey.  His brother, David went with them.  Information is, once the cattle had been delivered, they were going to return home as they had return tickets. Trouble was, they lost their tickets.
Tom

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Other Countries / Bone family in Argentina
« on: Monday 15 November 21 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
A great uncle of my wife, according to family knowledge, helped to take cattle from SW Scotland to Argentina.  I suspect this was early 1900's.  The story goes that he stayed there.  His name was George Bone, born 1885.

I have now found couple of names of 2 persons on a passenger list, dated 1951,  that may be related.
Margarita Wallace Bone, born c1919 in Argentina, and a Tomas Bone born c1917.
Margaret Wallace was the mother, and Thomas Bone, was the father of George Bone.

I have no other information at present.

Is there a way of finding out more information, like births etc?

Thanks in advance.
Tom

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: John Sharpe, born 1895
« on: Wednesday 25 August 21 19:47 BST (UK)  »
I had a look around the Gosport area, hoping he hadn't moved, but nothing obvious.  Just wondered if there may be records because he was working in the R N A D.  One problem is he had no middle names that would have helped.
His brother Alexander was married in 1920 at Portsea, but John is not mentioned on it.
Tom

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