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Stirlingshire / Fanny McAlpine and Robert Stevenson Bannockburn
« on: Friday 22 January 10 23:15 GMT (UK) »
Hello everyone. This my first post, so I hope I'm in the right place.
I am hoping that someone will be able to help me find this couple. They are named as parents on my Gt Gt Grandfather's marriage certificate (William Stevenson and Janet Henderson married on 28th March 1856 at Newmarket, Bannockburn). The marriage certificate states that William and Janet were both 21 at the time and that they both came from Bannockburn.
Robert is listed as a "Labourer" and Fanny McAlpine appears as "mother".
I have only been able to find one family with a Robert as father, Fanny as mother, with a William of roughly the right age, and with a Francis (who appears as a witness on the marriage certificate, and who I am hoping is a brother and not a cousin), and they appear on the 1841 and 1851 Census in the Parish of St Ninians.
I can't firm up any information as although ages are given on the Census forms, I can't find a Birth certificate for either Fanny or Robert, a Marriage cert/Proclamation for them, or Death Certificates either. Of course "Googling" a combination of "Robert Stevenson" and "Fanny" brings up Robert Louis Stevenson.
I have tried Fanny/Fannie/Frances/Euphan/Euphemia/Eupham and McAlpin(e), and I can't find a trace of her. And of course Stevenson is a common name in that area so Robert is a problem too.
I would appreciate any help which you can give me with this couple.
I am hoping that someone will be able to help me find this couple. They are named as parents on my Gt Gt Grandfather's marriage certificate (William Stevenson and Janet Henderson married on 28th March 1856 at Newmarket, Bannockburn). The marriage certificate states that William and Janet were both 21 at the time and that they both came from Bannockburn.
Robert is listed as a "Labourer" and Fanny McAlpine appears as "mother".
I have only been able to find one family with a Robert as father, Fanny as mother, with a William of roughly the right age, and with a Francis (who appears as a witness on the marriage certificate, and who I am hoping is a brother and not a cousin), and they appear on the 1841 and 1851 Census in the Parish of St Ninians.
I can't firm up any information as although ages are given on the Census forms, I can't find a Birth certificate for either Fanny or Robert, a Marriage cert/Proclamation for them, or Death Certificates either. Of course "Googling" a combination of "Robert Stevenson" and "Fanny" brings up Robert Louis Stevenson.
I have tried Fanny/Fannie/Frances/Euphan/Euphemia/Eupham and McAlpin(e), and I can't find a trace of her. And of course Stevenson is a common name in that area so Robert is a problem too.
I would appreciate any help which you can give me with this couple.