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I am helping someone who is researching an ancestor who gave birh in Yeovil Union Workhouse in 1872. We have the birth certificate but would like to find the admission and discharge records for the mother. Can anyone direct me to the relevant website?

I am hoping someone can help with this brick wall. My mother has a DNA match with a lady in the US. The Ancestry Thrulines suggested that she descends from our main Hamilton line  from John Hamilton born 1700 Blackwood Yard, Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire but that is incorrect.  He is DNA verified. However, they must connect via the Hamiltons for there to be a match but there appears to be no relevant documentary evidence for this branch.

The match is via Agnes Hamilton apparently born 15th May 1843 in Strathaven. Agnes married Alexander McCanch in 1865 in Avondale, Lanarkshire. In about 1870, they went to Pennsylvania. The daughter of my mother's match has struggled with this family but a recent visit to Scotland and archives suggests the name is McAinsh. We are making some progress with this.

I cannot find a birth for Agnes Hamilton or most  of her siblings. Margaret about 1839, James about 1843, Thomas about 1846, George about 1850. Then the last few appear with Janet 1855, William 1860, Janet 1862 and Margaret 1864. Their parents were James Hamilton, a master Slater  and Margaret Hendrie. According to Janet's birth record, they married in April 1838 in Strathaven and on Mary's birth record 18th May 1837. Again, I can find no marriage record. Does anyone know if there are large chunks of the Strathaven registers missing or is there anywhere other than Scotland's People I can search?

Margaret Hendrie died in 1878 and James married his 2nd wife Janet Taylor. I have their marriage record. it states that James's parents are Thomas Hamilton Master Baker and Agnes Browning. His death record in 1890 gives the same information. Again, I am coming up against a brick wall with this Thomas and Agnes. I can't find a marriage for Thomas and Agnes or a birth for James or any other children. According to the census records James was born about 1815/1816 but his age at marriage suggests 1822. I did find a birth in 1808 with father James and mother Agnes but I think this is another family completely and this Agnes had surname McKenzie.

I feel the difficulty I am experiencing is due to missing records. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

I am helping my cousin find some information about his grandmother's sister. He is not familiar with using Rootschat so am posting this request for a look up on his behalf.

I am  trying to find out what happened to the sister of my paternal grandmother, my great aunt Jeanie registered as Jeanie Whiteford Ross, born in Hamilton in 1902, possibly also known as Irene.

My cousin  has kindly traced her marriage to Charles Burnett Hay Reid on 20th June 1935 in Blantyre (who later died, in Stonehouse, in 1952).


What I am keen to do is find out what happened to Jeanie and whether or not she had children (I suspect that she did).


My cousin  has found six possible candidate children who were born in the area in that time frame but these are only guesses going by family names.


What I wish to find out is whether or not any of these were born to a Jeanie Reid née Ross, and if so what are their Scottish People reference numbers, so I can get certificates if I wish?


This is a predicament for me because I live over 300 miles from the nearest Scotland's People or Family History Centre, so I would be very grateful if anyone could please help me by looking up these names if they are planning to visit a centre soon.

 

I am trying to trace the daughter of my great x 4 grandfather's brother. She is Rose Ann Dunning born about 1826 Ireland married to Henry Bonner., also born in Ireland the same year. They married on the 8th April 1861 at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Greenock and gave their address as 3 Broad Close. This is the address the Dunning family lived and her mother died there but Rose Ann and Henry were not living there on the 1861 census which was taken the day before their wedding on the 7th April.
After a lot of searching, I eventually found them on the 1871 census on Scotland's People living at 57 Shaw Street, East Back Land, Greenock.  That record is not on Ancestry.
They had, as far as I can trace, 6 children but 4 died in infancy. Only Mary Ann and Catherine survived as far as 1871 and appear on the census record.
Then the family just seem to disappear off the face of the earth. I would particularly like to trace Rose Ann's death but unfortunately both of their surnames are widely mis-transcribed.
Any help or ideas would be very much appreciated.