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Family History Beginners Board / John McDonald
« on: Saturday 10 October 20 20:15 BST (UK)  »
Another Carnwath 'Hutchison' was John Hutchison. But he only became a Hutchison when aged 2, his mother Agnes Blair married Isaac Hutchison in 1850. He was actually born John McDonald, with the father in 1848 named on the birth cert as John McDonald, and acknowledging the baby as his 'natural son.
Who was John McDonald snr ?

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Fife / Thomas Russell and Jessie Hughes, and son * Russell, Fife to Australia
« on: Thursday 05 May 16 11:52 BST (UK)  »
Thomas W Russell, journalist aged 29, of the High Street, Anstruther, married Jessie Hughes, dressmaker aged 28, of The Gyles, Pittenweem, in 1920 in the Royal Hotel, Dundee.

After Thomas died 1932, Jessie and her son * Russell emigrated to Australia

Jessie Russell born 1892  died at Malvern, Victoria in 1874 aged 82
Father's Name: James Hughes
Mother's Name: Betsy Butters

Did they emigrate knowing that there was family already there ?
What happened to * Russell in Australia ?

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