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Quote from: eilthireach on Saturday 30 March 24 19:34 GMT (UK)

OPR 692/1 1797

1791 rather than 1797?

Monica

Yes, you are absolutely right. My mistake. It's a typo.

I have corrected the post.

Births in England which seem to correspond to the names (but as Darwood, not Dorwood) and dates of the children you mention:

Henry John Darwood 1880 2nd qtr Registration District of Norwich Vol. 4b Page 121

Elizabeth Jane Darwood 1881 4th qtr Registration District of Shardlow, Derbyshire Vol.  7b Page 454

Jessie May Darwood 1885 2nd quarter Registration District of Shardlow, Derbyshire, Vol.  7b Page 492

Donald Walter Darwood b. 22 April 1887, 22 Caledonian Place, Edinburgh, to Henry Darwood, formerly 45th (45th? 65th? registrar's handwriting not clear) Regiment, and Margaret Darwood, formerly Downie, maiden surname Urquhart.  = Birth 685(1)/1887/670 (Entry no. 670 in the Register of Births for 1887 for the Registration District of Edinburgh (St George)) Date and place of parents' marriage given as 1 January 1880, Aldershot


Henry Darwood married Margaret Downie 1880 First quarter Registration District of Farnham, Surrey Vol. 2a, Page 137 (RD Farnham, although it is in Surrey, covers the District of Aldershot which is actually in Hampshire.


James Downie, 26, shipwright, residence at time of marriage 1 Scotland Street, Kinning Park (which was formerly a separate police burgh until it was absorbed by Glasgow), father James Downie, farmer, mother Jane Downie, maiden surname McAllister

married 17 June 1870, 6 Brighton Place, Govan, Lanarkshire (646(1)/1870/92 (Entry no. 92 in the Register of Marriages for 1870 for the Registration District of Govan Church, Lanarkshire)

Margaret Urquhart, 25, residence at time of marriage 9 Brighton Place, Govan, father James Urquhart, joiner, deceased, and Margaret Urquhart, maiden surname Mathieson. Duncan Brown and Barbara Alexander signed the register as witnesses.

James Downie died 1873, aged 27 (!!), 501/1873/133 RD Old or West Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire

James Downie baptised 14 June 1843 Registration District of Saddell and Skipness, Argyll

It's Henry Shaw MacDonald. He and his wife were transcribed in Ancestry's transcribed version of the  1911 England Census as MacDonell, but that entry has been edited to show a corrected transcription. The place of birth, as already mentioned, just says Inverness, N.B. {North Britain, an old and extremely offensive term for Scotland). Yes, the handwriting in the schedules was appalling, which made it difficult for people transcribing these returns. ... and "Gaelic" had nothing to do with the situation,

Henry Shaw MacDonald married Charlotte Broadberry in London in 1898 (1898 2nd qtr Registration District of St George & Hanover Square Vol. 1a, Page 862). The registrar used his own idea of the spelling and recorded Henry as McDonald.

John Gilchrist married Mary Ann Senior, not Simon

Ancestry has their marriage. They married 4 October 1868 in Hunslet, Yorkshire. Both of them were living in Ivory Street, Hunslet, at the time. John was a clock & watch maker and his father, also a John Gilchrist, was a clock & watch maker. Mary Ann's father was John Senior, a mason.

John Gilchrist appeared, aged 3, at home at 5 Haugh Street in Edinburgh in the 1851 Census returns. His parents and siblings were all recorded as born Edinburgh. John 27, watchmaker, Margaret 27, Margaret 6, Robert 5, John 3, Joseph 1.

A Margaret Gilchrist was born 22 May 1844 and baptised 9 August 1844 to John Gilchrist, watchmaker, 119 Causewayside, Edinburgh, and Margaret Wells in the Parish of St Cuthbert's. There is no record of a baptism for any of the other children.

John was living at 20 Gifford Park Edinburgh, when he married Margaret Wells of 119 Causewayside, Edinburgh, daughter of the late John Wells, labourer there. They married on 1 January 1844.