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Dunbartonshire / Re: Auchinstarry Row, Cumbernauld
« on: Wednesday 22 July 09 05:17 BST (UK) »
Thank you Nel. Indeed, a great site!
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Dunbartonshire / Auchinstarry Row, Cumbernauld
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 22:22 BST (UK) »
My great-grandmother's death record has "98 Auchinstarry Row, Croy" as her residence. Can anyone tell me about this address? Does it still exist? was it a row of miners' cottage? Does anyone know if there are photographs available? Thank you.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please, some more handwriting help...
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 22:14 BST (UK) »
Sorry, meant to send this link too
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=buchroeder&id=I567231092
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=buchroeder&id=I567231092
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please, some more handwriting help...
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 21:49 BST (UK) »
Monica, were the Brackenridges part of your family?
Family lore has it that a relative, Jean Brackenridge, was Robert Burns's sister-in-law.
"Today, the Edinburgh Writers' Museum ... holds numerous memorabilia, including an intriguing marble apple he bought as a wedding present for his brother Gilbert and his wife,"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/In-the-footsteps-of-Burns.4888326.jp
Family lore has it that a relative, Jean Brackenridge, was Robert Burns's sister-in-law.
"Today, the Edinburgh Writers' Museum ... holds numerous memorabilia, including an intriguing marble apple he bought as a wedding present for his brother Gilbert and his wife,"
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/In-the-footsteps-of-Burns.4888326.jp
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please, some more handwriting help...
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 17:17 BST (UK) »
lizdb, yes, I'm going to go with Fancy Box Maker. Just needed someone to confirm it! ...and I did find that it was a career back then, though I haven't found a definition for it. Thank you!
Monica, thanks. I didn't think to check the profession in the census records. Store Keeper is a far cry from Stone Breaker! No, I haven't done census research yet, but I do intend to. Thank you for the offer, though. This group has been so helpful that I'm going to save it just for the stuff that has me truly stumped.
Monica, thanks. I didn't think to check the profession in the census records. Store Keeper is a far cry from Stone Breaker! No, I haven't done census research yet, but I do intend to. Thank you for the offer, though. This group has been so helpful that I'm going to save it just for the stuff that has me truly stumped.
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Lanarkshire / Please, some more handwriting help...
« on: Tuesday 21 July 09 15:47 BST (UK) »
This forum was so helpful when I couldn't decipher the handwriting on my great-grandparents' marriage record.
Now I have a second set of g-gps, and I'm not sure if I'm reading her profession or her father's profession correctly: is she a "fancy box maker"? It doesn't look much like an F, but what else could it be? And what is a fancy box?
And under her father's profession, it definitely looks like "store..." something. You'd think storekeeper, but that doesn't look like a K. Store broker? That doesn't make sense to me. I thought maybe it wasn't "store" but "stone"... Stone broker? Stone breaker? But I really think that's an "r" in the word, not an "n".
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.
Now I have a second set of g-gps, and I'm not sure if I'm reading her profession or her father's profession correctly: is she a "fancy box maker"? It doesn't look much like an F, but what else could it be? And what is a fancy box?
And under her father's profession, it definitely looks like "store..." something. You'd think storekeeper, but that doesn't look like a K. Store broker? That doesn't make sense to me. I thought maybe it wasn't "store" but "stone"... Stone broker? Stone breaker? But I really think that's an "r" in the word, not an "n".
Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much in advance.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please help decipher handwriting on marriage record!
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 20:17 BST (UK) »
Thank you, Capricorn, Alpinecottage, Sancti, and Lodger. So, not a hawker, but a worker. Yes, I can see that now. I never would have figured out any of this without this forum's help. Can't tell you how much I appreciate it.
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please help decipher handwriting on marriage record!
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 17:42 BST (UK) »
Thank you Sancti!
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Lanarkshire / Re: Please help decipher handwriting on marriage record!
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 17:22 BST (UK) »
Thank you, alpinecottage! You're absolutely correct about the H. Now that I look, I can see that what I thought was an M is different from all the other Ms in the document. A pit head would be the opening to the coal mine shaft, correct? She must have sold food or other items to the miners. The groom was a coal miner; I wonder if that was how they met. Thanks again!
Barbara
Barbara
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