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Reference Library / Re: Should we correct transcription errors ??
« on: Friday 04 August 06 13:21 BST (UK)  »
I found some of my husband's family on the 1901 census but, it appeared, that the brother of H's g.grandad had a different surname (Pappe).  It should have been Pyke.  Then the children (h's grandparents) were called Pappe and Poppe!
Being utterly bemused by this, I downloaded the actual scan of the census... lo and behold, they're all clearly Pyke but the transcriber hasn't read the writing correctly.  Should I notify the website in case anyone else is looking for the family online?   ???

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Scotland / Re: Scottish Naming Tradition
« on: Thursday 16 February 06 15:13 GMT (UK)  »
Ours is the surname as middle name.
The sons usually get the mother's maiden name as a middle name... i.e my granddad's middle name was 'Mulvie' after his mother's maiden name.
Unfotunately we cannot carry on the tradition as having a child with the middle and surname 'White Pyke' will be just cruel!  LOL  ;D
HTH

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Information after 1905
« on: Thursday 09 February 06 21:20 GMT (UK)  »
LOL it's okay, I'm going up for my wedding dress fitting in March, so we'll make time the day before to pop through to Edinburgh for a nosey.  I'll ring and make an appointment beforehand.  I need to go in to look at the Register of Corrected Entries for another relative anyway... and my gran has all the BMD certificates going back 100 years or so, so I can see the real thing there!   ;)
Thanks! 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Another translation needed...
« on: Thursday 09 February 06 16:10 GMT (UK)  »
I managed to find it using freecen... the household was listed on that... She worked for the Ritchies... some bankers who lived on the high street of Dunbar.   :)  Thanks Trish! 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Information after 1905
« on: Tuesday 07 February 06 17:26 GMT (UK)  »
I'm on Scotland's People and it says that it goes up to 1905.   ???  Am I just being blind and not seeing it?  :-\

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Information after 1905
« on: Tuesday 07 February 06 16:53 GMT (UK)  »
Unfortunately, it's in Scotland, so probably not.  I can't see anything for Scottish regions on freebmd.   ???

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Family History Beginners Board / Information after 1905
« on: Tuesday 07 February 06 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
My gr-granny was born in 1906, do you know how I could find her birth certificate online?  Or would I have to go to the Scottish archives? 

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: denholms in east lothian
« on: Tuesday 07 February 06 15:19 GMT (UK)  »
One of my ancestors is a Denholm...
She was Henereta (could be Henrietta and is just typed into Scotlands people wrong) Denholm and married John White.  They lived in Dunbar and had a child named Allison, who had 3 illegitimate children.  She was born in Stow as far as I can see.
Denholm isn't a very uncommon name though...  ???

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Another translation needed...
« on: Tuesday 07 February 06 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
Tis Scotland, yes!
Thanks so much everyone... I was struggling.  ???
I'll have to look there when I go up to see my family in March then.  I did find out that his mother never married and no father was put on his death certificate.  His grandfather's name is on his marriage certificate as 'father'.   :-\  I hope that was just a mistake and only put there as 'show' so that the parents of the woman he was marrying wouldn't know he was illegitimate.   :-\

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