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Looking for tips on how to locate a couple of births in Burma; and maybe also a marriage.

The subjects of the search are John WILLOCK, b. ca. 1875 in Rangoon, and sister Mary, b. ca. 1869 in Rangoon; this info from the Scottish 1881 census where they appear in the household of their uncle James WILLOCK, in Saltcoats in the County of Ayr, shown as boarders.

Their father was John WILLOCK, b. 1836 in Saltcoats, - there is no later trace of him or his children John and Mary in the Scottish records.  The mother's name is presently unknown.

John and Mary are known to be the children of John WILLOCK as their uncle James' 1893 testament (will) clearly identifies them as such.  Reading behind the lines of the  testament, father John may have virtually abandoned his kids, who somehow got back to, or were sent back to Scotland.

James left them the not insubstantial legacy in 1893 of £500, conditional on his brother not having reappeared and provided support for John and Mary.

For several generations the WILLOCK family of Saltcoats/Ardrossan, before that Riccarton were market gardeners/nurserymen/seedsmen and similar, - a possible connection to a journey out to Burma ?......


As I understand it Burma was administered by The India Office.

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/ produces no hits.

While the specific birth info would be great, it would also be very helpful to have a pointer to a DG that concentrates on the Indian subcontinent.

Thanks.

ibi

Interested in tracing descendants of Charles MACINTOSH and Mary FISHER. 

Charles is the eponymous inventor of the mackintosh (somewhere an extra ‘k’ crept in !)

Charles was born in Glasgow in 1766: parents George MACINTOSH and Mary MUIR (NB many spelling variants).


He had five siblings:

Francis, who married ? WILSON; had at least one daughter Louisa, who married ? MORDENBURGH, and was living in Dunkirk in the 1860s

Polson, b 1771 Glasgow

George, b 1772 Glasgow

John, b 1775 Glasgow: he served with the Honourable East India Company Marine.

William, b 1777 Glasgow


Charles MACINTOSH married Mary FISHER ca. 1790 in Glasgow, and had four known children

   George  b 1791, survived wrll into adulthood, but no known marriage or children

   Mary Scott, b 1792 Glasgow, see Lancs post at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,397597.0.html

   Alexander Fisher, b 1795, Glasgow, general in the British army, most probably    unmarried

   Wallace Francis, b 1799 Glasgow


Thanks

ibi

The National Library of Scotland, understandably, has an incredible collection of maps of Scotland.

Up until around 20 years ago the only way to access these was to visit NLS in Edinburgh.

In that period, however, NLS have had a project involving the digitisation of their maps, and the policy of making these available on their website.

Only in the last few years, however, given the more general availability of broadband, has it become practical to make the large image files involved available on the www.


For some years now, most useful town maps have been available at http://www.nls.uk/maps/townplans/townplans.html , in some cases including the names of those living in the houses shown.


Between 1843 and 1883 the Ordnance Survey produced a series of 6 inch to the mile maps of Scotland, - equivalent to 1 inch to around 300 yards.

The maps started to become available on an experimental NLS website a couple of years ago, but the maps weren't that easy to navigate; or link from one sheet to the next.


But now there is the website at http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html which leads to a map of the whole of Scotland, 'zoomable' in terms of the ability to focus in on specific areas on Scotland, and 'seamless' between the sheets,  with options to change the view on the basis of 'Map', 'Satellite', 'Hybrid', 'Terrain', and 'Historic', on a fully integrated basis.


A year ago, we moved to Dalry in N Ayrshire, my wife's home town, but not mine.  I'd previously looked at various sites in order to try to understand the 'lay of the land' in the last 150 years or so, with some success; but it wasn't until I came across http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html with the ability to switch between the 1800s 6in to the mile and modern maps, that I was fully able to relate the modern geography to that of 150 years or more ago.


Other entry points to the NLS maps are

http://geo.nls.uk/maps/

http://geo.nls.uk/os6inch/google.html

http://www.nls.uk/maps/os/6inch/index.html


Enjoy !!

Orraverybest

ibi

The following districts are "missing" from the 1841 census microfilms. (2nd Filming: Films - SL#1042699, SL#1042700, SL#1042702, & SL#1042730)
 
400 Abdie FIF
406 Auchtermuchty FIF
409 Balmerino FIF
415 Ceres FIF
416 Collessie FIF
418 Creich FIF
419 Cults FIF
420 Cupar FIF
421 Dairsie FIF
423 Dunbog FIF
439 Kinghorn FIF
440 Kinglassie FIF
442 Kirkcaldy FIF
444 Leslie FIF
577 Auchinleck

Note that the reference numbers used are those set up in 1855.  Whether or not "missing" means lost is unclear. In other words, the original enumeration books are not where they should be in New Register House. The 1841 and 1851 censuses were administered from London, so that there is always the chance that these enumeration books are sitting somewhere in a London area archive and somehow didn't make it into the shipment to Edinburgh when the English authorities were finally persuaded that the proper home for these documents was Edinburgh.

Curiously, the above are not a single straight run of adjacant districts, there being many intermediate records for other areas that have survived.

ibi