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Lanarkshire / Re: Looking for info on Maternal Great Grandmother - Lanarkshire
« on: Saturday 14 October 17 19:48 BST (UK)  »
I can't thank you all enough for your help!  I've definitely been steered in the correct direction :)

Now to work on determining on how the family (and which parts of the family) made their way to Canada in time for my great grandmother to marry in 1915.

Again, thank you!  I'm sure I'll be asking more questions in the future and will spend some time searching out your database here!

April


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Lanarkshire / Re: Looking for info on Maternal Great Grandmother - Lanarkshire
« on: Friday 13 October 17 22:07 BST (UK)  »
I was able to locate a marriage certificate for James and Helen.

It's quite difficult to read, but yet another piece of the puzzle.

See attached

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Lanarkshire / Re: Looking for info on Maternal Great Grandmother - Lanarkshire
« on: Friday 13 October 17 11:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for this!  I was able to find her birth registry via this link you provided - see attachment!

It is so exciting to see real proof - otherwise we are going deeper into a rabbit hole of information lol

Now to figure out how/when her family came to Canada - will be tracing some of the other details provided above - Thank you EVERYONE!



Quote from: Forfarian on Friday 13 October 17 11:07 BST (UK)
April, in the enthusiasm to find your family, we seem to have forgotten to tell you that you can view some* of the original Scottish birth, marriage and death certificates online, and dowload them, at modest cost. Go to www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, buy a few credits and use them to pay for the certificates you need to see. You'll need 6 credits for each certificate

*Births over 100 years ago, marriages over 75 years ago and deaths over 50 years ago.

And never, never, ever trust anything you find online unless it's an image of an original document. In particular, online trees, while they can be useful pointers, cannot be relied on to be correct.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Looking for info on Maternal Great Grandmother - Lanarkshire
« on: Friday 13 October 17 00:07 BST (UK)  »
That is very possible - What is the info below the birth year?

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Lanarkshire / Looking for info on Maternal Great Grandmother - Lanarkshire
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 23:48 BST (UK)  »
Please bear with me as I'm very new to this - but I have reason to believe my maternal great grandmother, Josephine Helen Showell Carter (maiden Clark or Clarke) was born in Lanarkshire Scotland on or around October 7, 1893.  I'm finding conflicting details regarding spelling of her various names, as well as her parents.    I believe their names were James William Clark/Clarke and Helen Hastie/Hasting.

If it helps narrow it down at all, she married my Great Grandfather Roy William Carter on June 2, 1915 in Fredericton, New Brunswick (CANADA)

Any details you could provide would be amazing!  I have a family tree started on Ancestry and have only recently started tracing my roots as I am an adult adoptee.

Thank you in advance for any and all assistance  :)

April

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