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Hi Soapy1

On further resarch I have found that the eldest son William was registered as William Gamble. Im still not further forward in locating the family in Ireland. I will take a look at the area your Gamble family came from see if I can find any connection to the area. Thank you.

Will keep looking, one day I may find them

Hi Br1gau

Wow, thank you for looking up all these possible siblings for James, I will defiantly follow these up and see what I can find out, thank you so much for searching for me

Hi 

I have gone back to researching my paternal line again and have managed to confirm the parents of my 3x Grt Grandfather, I am now trying to find out the DOB and POB of my 4x Grt Grandfather, his name is James Henderson born around 1755ish, this is currently assumed based on marriage date, I have his marriage to Janet Thomson as 27 June 1779 in Kelso, Roxburgh and have managed to confirm the names of 6 children (including 3xGG) all but one were born in Kelso. I have found four possibilities for his birth and was wondering if any one could advise on how is the best way to determine which is the right one. I searched on SP between 1745 and 1760 for any possible matches and this is what has come up.

James Henderson born 8 February 1747 in Cavers, fathers name Walter Henderson, no mothers name listed.
James Henderson born 28 June 1750 in Smailholm, parents are William Henderson and Margaret Tait. 
James Henderson born 31 August 1755 in Oxnam, fathers name George Henderson, mothers name not listed.
James Henderson born 23 May 1760 in Kirkton father name listed as James Henderson, no mothers name listed.

I am inclined to rule out the 1747 and 1755 births as the fathers names Walter and George have not shown up anywhere in the line, and they seem to have stuck with family names through out the generations right up till my father was born, however all his names were family surnames. The other two births seem more possible as both the fathers names appear through out the generations, any advice on how to go about confirming or getting best possible match would be greatly appreciated .

Thank you in advance

Marie

Thank you Hugh, I have a card in the seamans pouch that gives that date, its not the CR1, I don't think but it does have a hole punch through the number, back to TNA for me and a lot of searching to do, I would like to find out what ships he served on, he also went missing at one point and was found in hospital after suffering head injuries, for a time he couldn't remember who he was and it took a while to find him so want to look into that also.

thank you

Thank you Seaweed,

His merchant Navy seamans pouch was from BT372, it didn't have a lot of information in it, on one of the documents noted he was discharged 12/7/45 and cause of discharge was I.E.P.R (have no idea what that means) the ships name is just listed as Largs so not sure if it was Largs Bay, I don't think this was the first ship he was on as he told us about at least one ship he was on being sunk, it looks like he signed the T124 agreement in 1940 but no ship name mentioned. While I was at TNA they searched the Fifth Register (i think thats what they called it) with nothing for him, His name was William Cumming No. R198453