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Hi RootsChatters

Can anyone decipher the attached entry on an 1863 Parish of Falkland, Fife, Register of Births for me please?

My thoughts are: "1863 June Fourteenth (time isn't relevant) Mid Couland"

Over to you

Stay Safe

Chiad Fhear

Hi there RootsChatters

A Granduncle of mine, George Lindsay Neilson, was born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland on 23 December 1874 son of Dr James Neilson (1840-1886) and Marjory Reekie (1837-1918).

I have this much information for him:
1881 Census Residing at High Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire - Scholar
1891 Census Residing at High Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire - a grocer's assistant

There is no record, that I can find, of George in the 1901 Census or Registers of Death Registers in Scotland, however, a 90-year-old 2nd cousin, descended from his oldest brother Alexander recalls one of the "Neilson boys" emigrating and possibly dying in South Africa.  She couldn't recall his name.

I have noted a 1947 death on Ancestry for a George Lindsay Neilson in Transvaal Province, South Africa and wonder if this could be the connection?

I'm hoping someone out there can help me here.

Stay Safe and best regards

Chiad Fhear

Hi RootsChatters

I'm up against the proverbial brick wall here trying to determine if this is 'my' Lewis John Adams, born 20 November 1916 in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England ... or not.  The Lewis I'm looking for married a cousin of mine Margaret Drummond on Christmas day 1939 and from there the trail sort of runs dry, although there is a possible tree for him on Ancestry with no mention of a spouse.

Ancestry shows:
Victoria, Australia, Wills and Probate Records, 1841-2009   
Lewis John Adams
Death dd/mm/2001 city

Is there anyone who is willing to help me resolve this?

Stay home - stay safe

Chiad Fhear

Hi RootsChatters

It's been a long time since I had to come cap-in-hand to my fellow RootsChatters for assistance.

I'm trying to find out where Helen Mackie Laing, born in New Gilston on 10 Oct 1873, died.

Helen was the fifth daughter of Alexander Laing (1832-1901) and Agnes Gatherum (1836-1892) and I have her in the Largo Parish Census of 1881 and 1891.

The next thing I found was that she sailed from Glasgow on board the S.S. "Saturnia" (Donaldson Line) with her sisters Catherine and Janet, brother-in-law Duncan McAndrew and their children and arrived in Quebec, Canada on 25 October 1920.

I can't find a Border Crossing Record for her but there's an entry as 'Ellen Laing' at Line 22 in the 1930 Fifteenth Census of the United States showing it may well be her residing, as a servant in a private household, at 125 Crescent Avenue, Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey:

  Isabel Tweedy     Head     Female   88   New York
  Maria L Murray     Niece     Female   65   New York
  Mary Bradley     Servant     Female   62   Irish Free State
  Ellen Laing     Servant     Female   56   Scotland

The family grave headstone in Largo Cemetery gives her death date as 29 Dec 1939 but I've drawn a complete blank in trying to find out where she actually died.

I am assuming, from the listing on the headstone as 'Helen Mackie Laing', that she never married.

Can anyone fill in the final part of the mystery?

Stay safe

Chiad Fhear

Hi there

I'm trying to identify the address on the extract (below) from an 1878 Register of Marriage.

I've tried old and new maps.

Can anyone help?

Regards

Chiad Fhear