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Thank you for reading this. I am most confused about a marriage certificate for my grandfather's sister, and wonder if anyone can help me.
      She was Mary Anne Hervey, born 1869 Kirkmichael, although the family lived in Crosshill. Her father was Frederick Hervey and mother Mary Jane Caldwell. The family can easily be found on census returns for 1870 and 1880, and in 1891 Mary is in Ayr as a domestic servant. She marries in 1894, again in Ayr. Here is my puzzle.
       She weds a John Duan, pit sinker, his parents given as James Duan and Ellen Mcglinn. This is undoubtedly the correct Mary Hervey's marriage, as both her sister and future brother in law are correctly named as witnesses, and her parents are correctly documented, including her father's job and mother's maiden name.
         However, she is named as Mary Duan - if I correctly read the writing which is a little unclear - spinster. Surely she would have been Mary Anne Hervey if she was a spinster? Could it be a mistake and her new married name was put on the certificate instead of her maiden name?
          I cannot see where Mary Anne and John Duan lived thereafter. His brother James was also a pit sinker and married in 1896 giving Benquatt, Dalmellington as his home, but I find no sign of his brother or their parents anywhere.
         Ancestry further muddy the waters by suggesting that Mary Anne married a John Dalton in 1899 in Liverpool, her place of birth given as Crosshill in 1870, but even if she had been widowed shortly after her marriage to John Duan she would not have been recorded as Mary Anne Hervey, which was her maiden name. I think this must be another Mary Anne, but can easily stand corrected!
         I would love to know what happened to Mary Anne Hervey and the rest of her story, but am struggling through a lack of information about her next years, or even anything about John Duan himself( in case another family member should know more about where they lived.) My grandfather died before I was born or he could have been a great help here!
        Thank you for reading this. Any help would be much appreciated. Islay.

   I wonder if anyone would be kind enough to find out if there is a cemetery at Auchincruive. My granny was brought up to Auchincruive in November 1962 for burial. I have asked previously to see if she is in the St Quivox churchyard where her parents are interred, but was disappointed that there was no sign of her.
    She was Mary Harvey, born 1884 in Tarbolton, and her maiden name was McCracken. Her parents were Thomas and Mary McCracken.

   Could anyone advise me how to proceed? My sister has just found a receipt that indicates her coffin was brought to Auchincruive. Are there any headstone records for there? I have already tried Ayr Cemeteries.

    I would be most grateful if anyone could help me find where my granny lies. Many thanks, Islay

   I hope I am not posting in the wrong place but am not very good with computers! Some years ago I asked for a look up in St Quivox, and was kindly given the details of lair 300 for Catherine Cameron McCracken d 1923,and her parents Thomas McCracken d 1937 and Mary Cameron his wife, d.1937.

    My Granny, Mary McCracken Harvey, was another daughter of Thomas and Mary, and sister to Catherine. After Granny died her coffin was brought to Ayr, but I have been unable to locate it to see if there was a headstone and to know her final resting place. I have tried a contact with Ayrshire Cemeteries but have been unsuccessful.She was born Mary McCracken in 1884 at Tarbolton, Ayrshire,and Granny died as Mary McCracken Harvey in November 1963. There was talk of a family lair, and I wondered if this was the same one as the earlier mentioned  McCracken one, if she had been put alongside these other members of her family. Is there anyone who could look up this to help me?

    My parents also had a stillborn daughter born in November 1945.I have seen a receipt for a coffin for Baby Harvey, although Mum's married name was Smith, she had married the previous year in 1944 in Ayr.

     We have never known where the baby was buried, if indeed she was ever given a name, and my parents are both dead now, and my sisters and I would love to know where our sister and Granny are lying now. Is there anyone who could help? It is just a long shot that they were added to the family lair in St Quivox. With much appreciation, thank you for reading this, best wishes, Islay.

   I wonder if anyone could help me solve where my grandmother is buried?

   She lived with us in London, but after her death I remember Mum and Dad taking her coffin on the train for burial in Scotland where she was born. I was a young child at the time and the exact place of interment was not told to me.

   She was born in 1884 in Tarbolton, Ayrshire, and lived there until she married. Her name was Mary Sproat Cameron McCracken, and she married Charles Harvey, so her final resting place may be recorded as Mary Harvey. She died in September/October 1962.

     The family has other burials in the St Quivox churchyard, so maybe she was put there? There is a mention of visits to Auchincruive to see relatives. Is that a possibility?

    I would so appreciate any help that rootschat could give me in locating where Granny was buried. Both my parents have now passed away and there is no one left to ask in the family. Any help would be very gratefully received. Thanknyou, Islay

I would be very grateful for any help/advice in tracing this man.

        Samuel Mitchell married Alice May Brewin in October,1919,in Loughborough. Her family is quite easy to trace,but this Samuel's is not,and some help would be so much appreciated. All is says on the marriage certificate is that Samuel's father was called Alfred. Samuel lived in Loughborough all his life from that time on and died there in 1956.

       However,whether he was born there,or elsewhere,is a mystery since the dates do not tie in with the Samuels who had fathers called Alfred Mitchell,searching throughout England. It is said that there is a link with Coventry somewhere down the generations,but at what point,I don't know.

       Have tried the 1901 and 1911 census,BMD indexes etc.He had a brother called Alan and a sister called Brenda,and maybe more but that's all I know.

       If he was 26 when he married,according to the marriage certificate,it puts a birth date around 1893.
       Do we guess that his father Alfred would have been born 20-25 years prior to then?

       Any help and advice would be very much appreciated. I cannot find him in any war records either...a man of mystery indeed. Thank you for reading this,Islay.