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My gg grandfather Alexander McIntyre was born in Morvern, probably in 1815 to Donald McIntyre and Isobel McInnes, who married in Glasgow in 1812. He married Sarah/Sally/Marion McPherson in 1842 in Morvern - she was born in 1815 in Glasgow to Malcolm McPherson and Flory Black. Alexander, Sarah and their children were in Morvern (1841, 1851 census) until they were evicted from Aulisten on the Drimnin Estate by Lady Drummond. The family went to Muckairn (1861) then Oban (1871 and 1881).
There are two things I’d like to request help with please, one specific and one more general.
First, I’ve not been able to find Alexander’s death certificate. He is on the 1881 census in Oban, living with two of his children, Colin and Flora, wife Sarah having died in 1874. There is an Alexander McIntyre who died in Oban in 1881. However, his date of death was before the 1881 census was taken and, from the parent details given, I can track him and see that he is a different man who, like my gg grandfather, appears on the various censuses. I wondered if my Alexander was with another potentially surviving child, Duncan b 1847 or Mary Margaret, b 1854, or even a sibling, Donald b 1817 or Peggy b 1825. I’ve not had success in tracking these children/siblings.
Second, I’m intrigued by the Glasgow-Morvern connection. I’d thought that movement would be in the other direction, from the country to the city, but obviously both Alexander and Sarah’s parents spent time in Glasgow before arriving in (or returning to?) Morvern. I’d be really grateful if anyone could shed light on this, including pointing me to wider reading – I’ve learnt a lot from Philip Gaskell’s Morvern Transformed.
Thank you.