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Hi ankerdine, I think you have guessed right, in that the midwife / friend / relative had have stayed there.
On my fathers side I always wondered why my great grandmother gave birth to one of her sons in Greenock (they lived in Anderson Glasgow, I found out that her sister when she married moved from the family home at Cardross over the Clyde to Greenock, so she went there to give birth with her mother and sisters around to help.

Hi ankerdine,

I'm afraid to say I don't have anything on the Marshall side, I knew of Agnes Marshall as she married my grandfather's brother Robert. I have a look in my files all the same as I may have something in there that I have forgot about.

My tie with the Halliday name is also a Margaret Halliday she is my great grand mother b 1852 married 8 June 1869 Stranraer, my great grandfather was David Reid b 1849 Inch Stranraer. Margaret parents are Hugh Halliday b abt 1821 Ireland, and Mary Chambers b abt 1825 Ireland.

Copy of  1861 Census Gros 899/00 - 008
2 Rose Street Stranraer.

Mary Chambers Head Widow age 37 Sewer born Ireland.
Archie Halliday Son age 14 born Stranraer.
Agnes Halliday Dau age 12 born Stranraer.
John Halliday Son age 10 born Stranraer.
Margaret Halliday Dau age 8 born Stranraer.
Mary Halliday Dau age 6 born Stranraer.

Alan

my grandfather was robert blain,he was a fisherman ,married to a marshall from creetown

Is it this  Robert Thomson Blain b 17 Feb 1883 Stranraer,  Birth Certificate 899/00 - 0042.
Married Agnes Marshall 4 June 1905 at The Manse Lewis Street, Stranraer, Marriage Certificate 899/00 - 12.

If this is the Robert Blain you are talking of then he is the brother of my grandfather John Blain b 27 Sept 1880 Stranraer. Let me know and I can give you a lot of information ob the Blains and of some close family members.

Alan Cameron

Hi Jenny,

For the 1841 census Sun Street came under Stranraer / Leswalt, so your Blain family are also from the Leswalt area. I see your family in the 1841 census, when did they leave to go to Greenock.
I have most births deaths and marriages for Blain living in the Stranraer area, I am also working on them from Inch and even Portpatrack.
Let me know if any where still in Stranraer after 1855 as I should have the gros number and details of most certificates after then.

Alan.

William Hamilton and Elizabeth Grahame, two boys that I know of are :-

Alexander b about 1823.
George b about 1831.

Both Alexander and George are on the 1851 Census in Glasgow Scotland, giving place of birth as  Monaghan, Ireland.

Does anyone know of this family? and where in Monaghan they came from?
Surely with 8 years between the boys there must be other children? Who?


Alan