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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: help needed deciphering cert please
« on: Tuesday 08 April 25 17:25 BST (UK) »
Thank you. That's brilliant 😁. Yes, betwixt, not behind.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / help needed deciphering cert please
« on: Monday 07 April 25 22:54 BST (UK) »
Hi, could someone help with reading the bottom 2 lines please. The last word in the second last line? Also, in the final line, the words after behind? Thanks.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation please
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 21:56 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to both of you. Alan, no, I am Scottish but have been living in England for yrs, but, yes, my maternal grandparents were from Partick, like several generations before them. I can't recall ever having seen a flesher. Less likely to do so now, of course, with fewer butcher shops around. Will look out for them when visiting family in Fort William 
. Calleva, that's interesting, thanks.
. Calleva, that's interesting, thanks.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation please
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:12 GMT (UK) »
Thank you. Didn't think of that.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupation please
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Could someone decipher the occupation please. Looks like flesher. Thanks.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Mary Hay
« on: Monday 11 November 24 21:36 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, Elizabeth Sinclare was Mary Hay's mother, wife of The Hon William Hay of Lawfield. Mary married William Scott. Old posts have been written by other descendants of Mary Hay, but rather than simply reply to posts from 2009, I thought it made sense to ask the question in a new thread. I was hoping to reach other descendants who know the background, and that's why I gave scanty details.
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Lanarkshire / Mary Hay
« on: Monday 11 November 24 18:13 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Mary Hay and William Scott were my 4th g grandparents through their first born son Thomas. Just wondered if anyone had considered that Mary might not have been William Hay's daughter? While men can father children at almost any age, their fertility does decrease, and it seems unlikely that William and Elizabeth would have sprouted 7 children in quick succession when the former was age 60 to 68. What do you think?
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Lanarkshire / Mary Hay and William Scott
« on: Friday 25 October 24 11:31 BST (UK) »
Hi, my 4th g grandparents were Mary Hay and William Scott. On marriage cert William is entered as a servant, yet their first child, my 3rd g grandfather Thomas, was a farmer, from Netherhall farm, Lesmahagow. I'm puzzled as to whose farm it was. Was it the Scott farm, to which William returned after marriage, or did it belong to the Lawsons? Thomas's wife, Mary Lawson was a farmer's daughter. Does anyone know more about the background? Thanks.
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