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Scotland / Re: Is Mackdonald the same as Macdonald?
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 21:10 GMT (UK)  »
If you put Mackdonald in as a search on Irish Genealogy there are only four results. I am guessing it is a miss spelling. On the same page there are Mc names so It looks like whoever was registering sounded it as Mac(k)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 22:34 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Ray T on Thursday 21 March 24 20:58 GMT (UK)
I’ve never managed to get my head round the school TB testing in the 60s. If I remember correctly, I had the first injection, in the forearm, twice. Whilst the other brats were running round comparing the size of their “lumps”, the injections never gave me the slightest reaction and I was neither sent for an x-ray nor given a further inoculation.

I don’t know if was for TB but I had the same experience I had the initial jag but there was no reaction so didn’t have the follow up I was led to believe the initial jag showed I had a natural immunity so didn’t need the second course so avoided the scar.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: What did my great grandmother die of?
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 19:51 GMT (UK)  »
For how long was TB a major issue? So many people seemed to die from it.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Monday 18 March 24 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
All girls that doesn’t help much with guessing the father. Jumping to conclusions but I get a distinct English, perhaps middle class vibe from the names. Also they were Episcopalian, I wonder if the MacArthurs had been in England for a while.

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 21:53 GMT (UK)  »
Although born in England Duncan McArthur is a very Scottish name I wonder if he followed the traditional Scottish naming pattern with his children which would perhaps give clues to his parents.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 20:47 GMT (UK)  »
Can’t really make it out but rather than a capstan perhaps a metal press?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 15:48 GMT (UK)  »
I don’t think it is that old perhaps early fifties, obviously lots of engineering firms in Glasgow at that time.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 21:52 GMT (UK)  »
Is that a turntable they are standing on with tracks, some sort of heavy engineering factory?

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Scotland / Re: Struggling
« on: Saturday 16 March 24 16:28 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks but I was hoping that you could get hold of the actual marriage certificate to see who Duncan’s father or both parents where. We seem to be all over the place with this search.

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