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Armed Forces / Re: "Officers of the S.P.C.K. Northumberland Avenue, W.C."
« on: Saturday 02 September 23 19:30 BST (UK)  »
Oh, Gaffy and Watson -- bless you!  Thank you so much!  So the Northumberland Avenue leaves us in no doubt then: we have to be talking about the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge!  (I hadn't picked up the links you pointed to with the address).  What I was reading in the diary as "officers" was clearly "offices"! (Well, his handwriting is very difficult to read -- that's my excuse anyway!)    This is certainly food for thought in relation to this ancestor and has me re-evaluating him.

Thank you both so much for your help.

CELTICANNIE

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Armed Forces / "Officers of the S.P.C.K. Northumberland Avenue, W.C." ANSWERED -- WITH THANKS!
« on: Saturday 02 September 23 17:48 BST (UK)  »
This is a long shot; but perhaps this might mean something to someone.

An ancestor kept a diary in the last few months of his life in 1895, and at the back of it is what looks like an address book: he has listed some names and addresses, a couple of whom I recognize as having belonged to family/associates of his.  One of the entries on the list reads, rather cryptically, "12/ officers of the S.P.C.K. Northumberland Avenue, W.C."  Does anyone know what these initials might have stood for -- do they possibly indicate a military connection?  A particular military battalion, perhaps?  There are gaps in my knowledge of this man's life, but he did come from a military family.  When I googled the initials S.P.C.K. what came up was the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; but that doesn't seem like a good fit for him.

As I say, this is a long shot; but if anyone has any ideas about those initials I'd be delighted to hear them!

CELTICANNIE

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Canada / Re: So where are all the additional children?
« on: Saturday 19 November 22 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
Lisa and Rumkitty, I am so sorry not to have made it back before now to thank you for your additional much-appreciated input.  Sometimes, other things in life get in the way. >:(

Lisa, thank you for the additional ideas of things to check out.  I'm very intrigued by your discovery of another MacDonald plasterer in Inverness with family Christian names that overlap with 'my lot' and will certainly be investigating him!  (A younger brother of 'my' William, possibly?) I checked out the record relating to the additional birth you found -- and, frustratingly, as well as being unnamed, the baby's gender is unspecified; so this could easily be one of the children I already know from Canadian census records.  Intriguingly, however, one of the witnesses to the baptism is a 'Doctor MacDonald' -- so there is another possible family link to investigate there.

Rumkitty, thank you for your suggested further sources and other information.  I feel sure they will prove useful.  Canadian genealogy is a relatively new field for me.

Thank you both so much!

CELTICANNIE

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Canada / Re: So where are all the additional children?
« on: Thursday 17 November 22 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all very much for your helpful replies, and I apologize for my delay in reacting.  I am very sorry if I didn't explain this adequately, but I was only really looking to discover any children who are additional to the one I already knew of and had listed -- not to know what happened to the listed ones once the family reached Canada.  I already knew that.  But thank you anyway.

That said, Sandra, I hadn't found Alexander MacDonald in the '51, so I am grateful for that tip.

Lisa, I too was struck by the odd gaps in 'children production' in this family.  But I haven't been able to fill them. :(  Assuming there is anything to fill them with.  But I will certainly check out the 1824 male birth you found (on Scotlandspeople) -- same parents and parish as other births, so this looks very promising; thank you!  One of the children -- the eldest, Thomas -- certainly stayed in UK but moved away from Inverness. (No work there).  And thank you for all the Canadian research tips -- certainly a couple of them were fresh ideas to me and I am sure will prove helpful.  Several of Sarah Davies' siblings (and, indeed, nephews and nieces) also moved to Canada with their spouses; but no known-of interactions with the MacDonalds post move, unfortunately.  (I have not yet been able to identify William MacDonald's parents and siblings to see if any of them might have crossed the Big Pond; but I shall work on that!)

Brigidmac, it had crossed my mind too, a while back, about a possible earlier marriage for William and some of Jane Logie's siblings being half siblings; but now you've reminded me of that possibility again I shall certainly investigate it -- thank you.  If birth date I have for William is correct, then he would have been about 24 when he married Sara, so an earlier marriage (and offspring) is not inconceivable.

Cosmac, thank you for the website reference.  It looks interesting and helpful.

Once again, sincere thanks to all for all your help.

CELTICANNIE   

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Canada / So where are all the additional children?
« on: Wednesday 16 November 22 21:39 GMT (UK)  »
So this is what I know (from mainly Scottish parish records and Canadian censuses):

William McDonald, born about 1782 in Scotland -- a plasterer by trade -- married Sara Davies in Inverness on 6th January 1806.  They had the following children (that I have been able to trace):

Thomas (baptd 1806 Inverness)
Duncan (baptd  1808 Inverness)
Alexander (bapt 1809 Inverness)
William (born c1817)
Sarah Ann (born c1823)
Margaret (born c1824)
Jane (baptd 1826 Inverness)

Trees on Ancestry name a couple other children but without any source records.  >:(  I refuse to count them.

William was still living in Inverness in 1828.

William's son Duncan married Ann Jordan in Ontario in February 1834.  (No idea whether the rest of the family had emigrated to Canada by this time.  For what it's worth, none of them were witnesses at the wedding).

The next record I have found relating to William is the 1852 census, which has him in Perth, Lanark County, Canada -- by which time he is widowed.  (I have found no record of his wife's death in either Scotland or Canada).  I cannot find any reference to any additional children that he might have had after arriving in Canada. 

His daughter Jane's 1906 obituary, however, refers to her having been "one of a family of thirteen children".

So who are these other children, and where were they born?! 

Please can anyone suggest any additional (and preferably free!) Canadian sources (ie aside from census records and what Ancestry throws up) that I can hunt in for further references to this family?  Or can anyone else find any additional children (with firm sources, of course!) for William?

Many thanks.

CELTICANNIE



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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Bain confessed he married Telford
« on: Wednesday 21 July 21 20:37 BST (UK)  »
On the 'Causeway-?' subject, just want to make you aware there is also Causewayhead, near Stirling!  I don't think your writing looks much like this, to be honest, but your never know.  Just thought I'd mention it anyway, once you said there is a Scottish connection -- just in case!

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Gloucestershire / Re: Census 1841 Interpretation
« on: Monday 17 May 21 20:29 BST (UK)  »
I would imagine it just indicates they were born in 'Scotland, Ireland or Foreign Parts' -- wherever that may be.

CELTICANNIE

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The Common Room / Re: Who was this Jane Parry? Who are her family?
« on: Monday 26 April 21 13:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mabel

Thank you so much for coming back to me on where you found the newspaper notice — that was really bugging me!  Couldn’t understand why I couldn’t find it.  But now I do!

CELTICANNIE

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The Common Room / Re: Who was this Jane Parry? Who are her family?
« on: Monday 26 April 21 00:08 BST (UK)  »
Gracious, Mabel; I really think you're on to something here!  But where did you locate Jessica's death notice in The Times?  I'm quite an addict of the britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk and have been trawling intensively on there -- both before and after your post -- but could not locate this notice you found there.  However, I am extremely grateful that you did -- wherever you found it.

Intriguing that, although Jessica died almost two years after the death of Jane Parry, she was living at 4 Allen Terrace -- Edward's address -- when she died.  I imagine she needed his expert medical care towards the end of her life.  And I see from probate that Edward was her executor, too -- and that Jessica is buried in Brompton cemetery (same place as Jane and Edward). This supports that he had a close relationship with Jane Parry's siblings that long continued after Jane's death; and it is certainly supportive of the idea of a niece who is of Jane's blood visiting with Edward so many years after Jane's death.  I am aware of another example of White Knight Edward riding to the rescue of a damsel in distress (his suddenly widowed great niece, who had young children to support) so this seems to have been very much in keeping with his nature.

I am still perplexed as to why I didn't uncover the notice in The Times, though! >:(

I shall go investigate the Walker connection -- which looks very encouraging; but thought it past time I at least posted to thank you for your trouble.  Apologies for not doing so sooner -- been very tied up with other things today.  But I am very grateful to you, Mabel Bagshawe!

Thank you!

CELTICANNIE     

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