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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Why would someone move from Kirkcudbright to Pembrokeshire?
« on: Wednesday 12 July 17 22:07 BST (UK) »
Hi James
Thanks for this really helpful suggestion.
Penny
Thanks for this really helpful suggestion.
Penny
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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Why would someone move from Kirkcudbright to Pembrokeshire?
« on: Friday 07 July 17 16:49 BST (UK) »
Thank you everyone for such quick responses and great suggestions.
I've mused on the idea that Anthony may have sailed down the coast to Wales, but the nagging question is "why". I can't think he would have made that journey without some kind of job offer or invitation from a friend or relative! At this point in our research, we're thinking he may have left Kirkcudbright after the death of his father or mother, sometime after 1841.
Penny
I've mused on the idea that Anthony may have sailed down the coast to Wales, but the nagging question is "why". I can't think he would have made that journey without some kind of job offer or invitation from a friend or relative! At this point in our research, we're thinking he may have left Kirkcudbright after the death of his father or mother, sometime after 1841.
Penny
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Kirkcudbrightshire / Why would someone move from Kirkcudbright to Pembrokeshire?
« on: Friday 07 July 17 14:30 BST (UK) »
My husband's great grandfather Anthony Reid (son of Alexander Reid & Agnes Gourlay/Sourlay) was baptised in Twynholm, Kirkudbright in November 1814 (though the Family Bible shows 1816), and appears on the 1841 census as age 25, Ag Lab at Blackhill, Kirkcubright (together with his father and mother, sister Janet and illegitimate nephew (we believe) Anthony Thomson.
By 1851, he appears on the census for Pembroke Dock in West Wales as age 35, a Policeman at the Royal Dockyard. The ten years between the two censuses are a mystery in this story, except that we know he married Jane Reynolds from Carmarthenshire on February 24, 1851 (a month before the census) in St John Pater, Pembroke.
Has anyone any ideas as to how and why he would have made the journey from Scotland to Wales? Was there a recruitment campaign in the locality? Did Anthony have a relative already in the police (the Dockyard Police was a branch of the Metropolitan Police at one stage)?
All ideas gratefully received.
By 1851, he appears on the census for Pembroke Dock in West Wales as age 35, a Policeman at the Royal Dockyard. The ten years between the two censuses are a mystery in this story, except that we know he married Jane Reynolds from Carmarthenshire on February 24, 1851 (a month before the census) in St John Pater, Pembroke.
Has anyone any ideas as to how and why he would have made the journey from Scotland to Wales? Was there a recruitment campaign in the locality? Did Anthony have a relative already in the police (the Dockyard Police was a branch of the Metropolitan Police at one stage)?
All ideas gratefully received.
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