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Haven't been able to trace my father any further back than his age 10. His birth certificate/registration remains hidden somewhere.

Thomas and Mary Clyde(nee Ross) were married in 1865 and eventually had a family of twelve children. Your Robert Ross Clyde, born in 1865, was their second child. His elder brother John was born in 1864 but died in infancy in 1867. His sibling, David, was born in 1867 and died in 1868. The remaining 10 children all survived into adulthood and had their own families.

Thomas Clyde was the son of John Clyde and Mary Clyde, (nee McMurdo).They had five children the oldest of which was William who was baptised in Wigton in 1830. John and Mary Clyde were married in County Down in 1820 according to the information on the 1851 Substitute Census of Ireland. They had apparently returned to Ireland sometime between the baptism of their first child William in Wigtonshire, and 1841 but, presumably, returned to Scotland with their family including my great grandfather Thomas who had been born in 1846 in the miner's rows in Rosehall near Coatbridge, Lanarkshire.

Mary Ross was the eldest daughter of Robert and Agnes Ashwood both born in 1819 in Ireland.
Robert Ross died in 1889 and Agnes died in 1904.

Researching further back in Ireland is notoriously difficult and I have not made a serious attempt yet to take matters further. i will need to do something since both my paternal and maternal lines seem to end up in Ireland. I will probably start to look at this sometime later this year.

The photograph of Thomas and Mary seemed to have been taken sometime in the early 1920's when they were living in Newcraighall outside Edinburgh and includes what I believe to be their daughter Elizabeth and her Husband Lancelot Collins plus a small child who might be the son of Elizabeth and Lancelot. The photo is on Ancestry.co.uk and if you would like to see it you need to let me have your name and email address which will allow me to list you as a Guest on my Ancestry account and let you view the photograph.

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Hi,
I am trying to trace any any information on my late father's early life between his supposed date of birth of 7th December 1901 in Durham and the first entry in his seaman's discharge book in 1922.
He always insisted that he was born in Durham on 07/12/1901 but I cannot find any referen
ce to his birth anywhere. The GRO have also been unsuccessful in finding any registration of his birth in England.

Family oral history tells me that his mother was Jeannie Meikle and we know that his 'father' was William Clyde born in Lesmahagow Lanarkshire in 1873. From that information I have traced previous to my Gt gt gt Grandfather John Clyde who was born in Down Ireland around 1810 and travelled to Scotland via Wigton in 1830/31 to Lanarkshire.

Having watched my Grandfather William Clyde through census reports 1891,1901 and 1911 without any trace of his 'son' Thomas I am beginning to wonder whether my father was informally adopted by William Clyde sometime after 1911 census and that his surname Clyde was taken up at that stage. I have traced a Thomas Meikle  who was born in 'England' and who lived with his 'Parents' Thomas and Janet Meikle and is shown in the 1911 census as being their son even although they would have been in their late 40's when he was born in 1901.

I am wondering whether this 'son' was their grandson or some other relative and had been taken in on, say, the death of his mother and, as was quite common then, named as their son on the census.

I would like any information on Jeannie Meikle and Thomas Meikle Clyde between 1901 and 1922 if at all possible. any suggestions would be gratefully received.