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Hi Alison

Most RCE (Register of Corrected Entries) information applies to the cause and/or circumstances of the death itself not to the personal data recorded.
Where a death occurred in suspicious circumstances or, as in a hospital, was unexpected in view of the persons initial illness, or where a post mortem was required to establish a precise cause/place/time of death the matter was referred to the Procurator Fiscal. Following deliberation and investigation a report would be issued which could lead to an amendment to the place, time or cause of death. This is held in a separate register which currently is not available on-line but may be at some point in the future from scotlandspeople.

Russell

Hi Duckweed

Another Butinsky here!
You say   

you do get travelling farm workers too I suppose.

Travellers and itinerant families from Ireland were the mainstay of the Scottish agricultural process right up to the 1950's. When larger fields were created to take the big machines.
Families would move to an area for the planting, move on to another area where there was an early sowing for 'singling'  and weeding, move on again for the early pea picking, move up to Perth area for the berry harvest then back down to Lothian or Ayrshire for the 'Tattie howkin'.
Their children might be in the local school for a month or six weeks till the family moved on. Some farmers kept bothies for the family to live in. The same families would return year on year.
Some Jamiesons in the Kirkcudbrightshire area were settled, and wealthy farmers over a long span of years.

Russell

Hi yn9man

Your last post had me giggling into my coffee.

Mush appreciated

 

I began to wonder if LindsaySiam, Gadget and myself were losing the plot and it showed or if it was a simple slip of the finger

I opted for the latter explanation but it gave me a good laugh too. 

Just to add to our earlier comments. The will I mentioned gave me a clue to some bits of information I already had gathered and since then has led to me making contact with a relative in Australia 

If its a Will not just an Inventory and is more than 3 pages it is certainly a worthwhile bet (even if not a 'safe' one)
It takes about three pages for the Writers to fit in all the incomprhensible legal jargon before they get to the real facts.

Russell

Hi Gadget

Like you I hae my doubts about the guy in Cambridgeshire.

The problem is that the surname Young is too universally used. It crops up across Scotland and right across England so it is of no help trying to pin down a place.
Why could he not have had an easy name like McTavish or Hetherington which would have some local significance.
I think that the various Mr Young's on the passenger lists may hold the clue here.

Russell