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Stirlingshire / Cannerton Pit, Hollandbush
« on: Wednesday 09 October 13 20:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi i'm looking for any information people may have on Cannerton Pit, Hollandbush (now Banknock). I've been on the scottish mining website, but it would be interesting to find out from any members if they have a connection to this colliery, or know anything about it. I do know that when it stopped producing coal it became a brickworks.
Thanks very much.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 15:44 BST (UK)  »
Maggie might not have been giving too much away, as Taylor is her mother's maiden name. But having an illegitimate child might explain why she married a man a fair bit older than her, and who had quite a few children of his own from his first marriage.I know there was a fair bit of illegitimacy going on, but there was still a lot of social stigma about it.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 14:53 BST (UK)  »
Very excited to have just found the birth cert of Janet Taylor Sneddon born 1884, the illegitimate daughter of Maggie Sneddon!!
Thanks for your advice and interest. It spurred me on.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 14:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi, i'm sorry for the confusion- i'm finding things out as i go along if you know what i mean! Maggie did have older brothers and sisters, but they were all married, so i would have thought a child would be living with them. I have checked a 1901 census i had for John and Janet Sneddon. By this time John has died, and Janet is 67. Looking at it now, very interestingly 2 grandchildren are living with her; Mary McKail (16) and Janet Sneddon (16). If Jessie/Janet are interchangeable then this must be young Jessie, and that would mean she was an illegitimate child of one of Janet's children. I wish i has the child's birth cert to be sure.
And i'm no nearer finding out why Maggie was in hospital in Edinburgh.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Tuesday 08 October 13 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for your comments. I'll try and explain what i've found so far, though it is a bit confusing. Just to clarify, Maggie Sneddon is her maiden name- she later married Philip McKail.

According to 1881 census
Margaret (Maggie) Sneddon is 16, and an in-pt at Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
Her parents John and Janet 48yrs and 47 yrs are in the Haggs , living with their children Peter, John and Jessie (7yrs).

According to 1891 census
John and Janet are 57yrs
Maggie is 26yrs
Peter 24yrs
Jessie 6yrs.

I now have a 1891 census for Jessie Sneddon (Barony, Blythswood Glasgow) aged 17, and reported as a domestic servant to Physician Samuel Moore. So to me this is the Jessie who's 7 in 1881, and is Maggie's sister. I am surmising that 6 yr old Jessie in 1891 is not likely to be John and Janet's daughter, as they have a living daughter with the same name. So that leads me to think young Jessie is an illegitimate child of Maggie (or Peter?) and being brought up as John and Janet's child.

I can't find a birth cert for either Jessie. However i do have the family bible which records a birth for Janet SneddEn in 1873. I'm wondering if Janet was known as Jessie.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Monday 07 October 13 21:39 BST (UK)  »
She was 16 approx, and i admit it has crossed my mind. But unfortunately the dates i have don't add up. According to the 1891 census Margaret is back living with her parents in the Haggs. At this time her parents are both 57 yrs. But there's a 6 year old child, Jessie, there, recorded as 'daughter' of Margaret's parents. I suspect Jessie may be Margaret's daughter, based on nothing more than it being pretty unlikely (but not impossible) that her own parents had Jessie late in life. So far i haven't been able to find a birth cert for Jessie. It would be really interesting to find out what kind of ward Margaret was in in 1881, if there's a way i can find it out.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Monday 07 October 13 16:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi Millipede,
No she died at a ripe old age in 1942, so she clearly made an excellent recovery from whatever it was!
thanks,
Redsquirrel

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Stirlingshire / Re: Taylor and Welsh families - Denny
« on: Sunday 06 October 13 21:39 BST (UK)  »
This is such an old post, but Robert Taylor and Mary Welsh are my ancestors. What would you like to know?

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Stirlingshire / Margaret Sneddon 1881
« on: Sunday 06 October 13 19:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi, i'm trying to find out about my g-great aunt Maggie Sneddon, originally from Haggs. According to 1881 census she was in the new Royal Infirmary Edinburgh listed as a patient. What i don't know is why she was there, why she wasn't treated in a more local hospital. Can anyone give me some advice on how to find this out?

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