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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 19 June 11 23:49 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much Ann!  While I think they lived in Nielston (Annfield house?), and the family story is that G G Grandpa (James Duguid Sr.) built the house there, he and his kids were all born in Barrhead.

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 19 June 11 21:27 BST (UK)  »
Cool Ann!

The little I know of the Mairs, is that my great grandfather's sister Janet (1877-1945), married David Campbell Mair (~1867-1941).  Her father (my G G Grandfather) owned a store in Neilston, and the shope next door, was a "Flesher" (butcher by my understanding), by the name of David Mair.  I think David Campbell Mair who married Janet Duguid, was David Mair's (butcher) son.  That's the family story anyway.  They had something like 15 kids.  But I have very little info on, and no contact with anyone from her branch of the tree.

Here are the two pictures I have of the shop:  http://o.mfcreative.com/f1/file15/objects/2/9/2/f292ef1f-dcae-419f-8630-6af1f7950378-0.jpg

http://o.mfcreative.com/f1/file13/objects/2/5/5/d25509fe-119b-477e-b201-30afa4ecf240-0.jpg

I still don't know where in Neilston this is/was, but would love to know if you (or your dad) knows.  I'd love to hear anything your dad can remember about my family in Scotland.

Thank you so much!
-Nick

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 01 August 10 06:34 BST (UK)  »
Thank you! yes, those are useful and Craig Mair sounds like the family I know.

Thanks again Murphyz!
-Nick

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Tuesday 01 June 10 07:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again guys. You have been incredibly helpful in all of this.

So, as much as I like Ancestry.com for keeping track of a lot of extra information, it's Family Tree view is kind of lame, in that I can't view siblings easily, or get a "big picture"

Thus, I've spent a bit of time in Photoshop assembling my tree from my James Duguid (1852) on down the line. 

I've uploaded it here: http://www.tumerboy.com/Duguid%20Family/Duguid%20Family%20Tree%20-%20James%20Duguid%20(Sr.)%20Branch.pdf

It's been very helpful in letting me easily spot holes in information that I'm missing, and get a better sense of my tree as a whole.

I'm going to have to do another for James & siblings backwards.  I also need to figure out a good way to denote which people are married in, and which are the direct descendants.  Maybe smaller boxes? or offset?  I should probably also mark Male vs. Female somehow.

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much, that does clear things up a bit.

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 05:31 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Murphyz on Saturday 29 May 10 17:45 BST (UK)
Hi Jonn,

Fantastic information on the Carriden Duguids - would it be right to assume Paris is an unusual surname?

I also have come across this entry on a Horizon Information Portal site (I think it must be something to do with the libraries in West Lothian?)


Newspaper:  MIDLOTHIAN ADVERTISER
 
Subject:  DUGUID, MARY PARIS
 
Abstract:  OBITUARY OF MISS MARY PARIS DUGUID, TEACHER FOR 34 YEARS. SHE WAS ON THE STAFF OF CARRIDEN & GRANGE PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR 18 YEARS OF WHICH SHE ACTED AS INFANT MISTRESS OF GRANGE. SHE RESIDED AT PARKVIEW, BO'NESS.
 
Date:  02 MAR 1945
 
Page number:  4
 
With photograph?:  NO.
 
I would assume some sort of relation?

Cheers
Murphyz

Presumably not the Mary Paris that John mentioned.  There are several other Mary's in the family line.  It's likely not her daughter as she would have been 105 in 1945.  William had a daughter (James' (1852) sister) Mary, though I have her death listed as 1930.  Though James had 5 or more sibblings, so she could easily be down any of their branches.

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Sunday 30 May 10 04:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again for all your guy's work.  I'm still trying to sort it all out and fit the pieces into my existing puzzle of a tree.

I'm curious if there is some sort of accepted, or standard way to identify multiple people with the same name in a family?  I.e. there are at least 4 different James Duguid's, and at lesat as many John's.  Normally I do this by using middle names where I can, but even some of those overlap, and many either don't have a middle at all, or I've never known it.  Maybe Birth year?  i.e. "James Duguid (1852)" as opposed to "James Duguid (1947)" ?

So, I get to this line: "Tumerboy, the name Paris, comes from Your James Duguid's, grandmother, she was named Mary Paris, and she married James Duguid, 31/Oct/1825. Carriden, West Lothian, Scotland."

Does that mean, MY great, great grandfather James Duguid (from the initial post), his grandmother, (i.e. William Duguid's mother? or Janet Stirrat's mother?) was Mary Paris?

Here's that line as I follow it:
Nick Duguid (Me)>James Gregory Duguid (father)>John Leroy Duguid>James Duguid>James Duguid>William Duguid>Mary Paris (?)


Also, can someone help me understand the various place names?

i.e. William Duguid is mentioned in several places as being born in Carriden, Linlithgowshire, or Carriden, West Lothian, or maybe something else?

So, is each within the next, i.e.  is Carriden the town (or village, or what have you), Linlithgowshire the county, and West Lothian roughly the state or some such?  What is the actual breakdown here, and how should I actually list it in my own records?  i.e. Carriden, Linlithgowshire, West Lothian, Scotland ?


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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Friday 28 May 10 05:17 BST (UK)  »
Looking again at the couple of shots of the shop that I have, there are small (6" or so?) number placards next to the doors of each of the shops on that street.  I can't make out the one next to James' shop, but the "Stationer & Tobacconist" next door is marked "30"
Still doesn't help with what street it's on though.

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Renfrewshire / Re: James Duguid - Neilston
« on: Thursday 27 May 10 21:40 BST (UK)  »
I see, so elder Duguid (age 66 in the 1861 census) would be the grandfather of MY James Duguid (Age 8 in 1861, born 1852), and presumably the father of William Duguid, Jame's father?  I have no knowledge above William Duguid & Janet Stirrat, so that seems plausible.  It would also account for James' (1852) absence from the rest of his family during that 1861 census.

As for John Paris Duguid.  I have never known a middle name, but "Great Uncle John" as he was called in my family, would be the son of James (1852) and was born in 1889.  So that seems to correlate as well.

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