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Scotland / Re: Family link or just big coincidence?
« on: Tuesday 29 March 22 17:00 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I haven't done much genealogy for the past few years -- not from lack of interest, but lack of time as I just don't have any these days. So looking through my genealogy documents I can see that I was halfway through organising them, which is the worst type of organisation to leave them in! I can see from the dates in this thread that it's been longer than I thought it had been. Perhaps I will find time to pick up the threads again this year. Or at least organise the research I've completed up to now.
As I recall, I was all over the place trying to find the parents of Alexander Davidson -- John Davidson and Margaret Wilkie. I could find no digital documentation for either of them, beyond reference to them in their son's own documents.
As I recall (without reading through the whole thread), there were very few Wilkies in Aberdeenshire (where AD apparently comes from), though I found a family with names which fitted a naming pattern. However I could find nothing concrete.
I concluded (at least temporarily), that though it was possibly the same family, that given Alexander's first found census (in 1861, aged 20-21) was in Roxburghshire (a fair way from Aberdeenshire), and his father was a farm servant, that the family may have moved around the country a lot. Failing that, the documents may have been among those which if I remember correctly were destroyed.
All I know for sure is that John Davidson (d. 1869-1923, oc. farm servant) married Margaret Wilkie (d. 1839-1869), and had at least one son called Alexander Davidson (according to censuses b. 1839-1840 in Cruden or Peterhead, died 23 May 1923 in Dundee, oc. railway surfaceman). Anything else about JD and MW has been little more than speculation.
If you ever come across "my" Margaret Wilkie, please do let me know!
I haven't done much genealogy for the past few years -- not from lack of interest, but lack of time as I just don't have any these days. So looking through my genealogy documents I can see that I was halfway through organising them, which is the worst type of organisation to leave them in! I can see from the dates in this thread that it's been longer than I thought it had been. Perhaps I will find time to pick up the threads again this year. Or at least organise the research I've completed up to now.
As I recall, I was all over the place trying to find the parents of Alexander Davidson -- John Davidson and Margaret Wilkie. I could find no digital documentation for either of them, beyond reference to them in their son's own documents.
As I recall (without reading through the whole thread), there were very few Wilkies in Aberdeenshire (where AD apparently comes from), though I found a family with names which fitted a naming pattern. However I could find nothing concrete.
I concluded (at least temporarily), that though it was possibly the same family, that given Alexander's first found census (in 1861, aged 20-21) was in Roxburghshire (a fair way from Aberdeenshire), and his father was a farm servant, that the family may have moved around the country a lot. Failing that, the documents may have been among those which if I remember correctly were destroyed.
All I know for sure is that John Davidson (d. 1869-1923, oc. farm servant) married Margaret Wilkie (d. 1839-1869), and had at least one son called Alexander Davidson (according to censuses b. 1839-1840 in Cruden or Peterhead, died 23 May 1923 in Dundee, oc. railway surfaceman). Anything else about JD and MW has been little more than speculation.
If you ever come across "my" Margaret Wilkie, please do let me know!