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Scotland / Can't find OPR birth/baptism that apparently does exist.
« on: Wednesday 12 April 23 14:07 BST (UK)  »

On FindMyPast there is an 18/20 July 1831 birth and baptism record for a person named Jane Burnet Cruickshank. For some unknown reason I've never been able to find this on ScotlandsPeople.

The FindMyPast record has the following reference information:

Page 61
Archive Ref OPR 168A/27
Year Range 1854-1855 (<-- ???)
Place Aberdeen
Item 27

 
On census records she always stated that she was born in Turriff. Parish 168A is Aberdeen, where she did live for quite some time from a young age. The reference above, although for 1831, gives a year range of 1854-1855.

I was thinking of looking for mistakenly unindexed births by trying to find other births that might be on the same page or nearby. As seen in the reference info above I have a parish number and a page number. But what is "item 27"?

I found an 1853 record for a random person with reference 168/A 270 / 57. Would "270" be what FindMyPast calls "Item 27"? If so, then I could perhaps be four pages away.

Anyway, just wondering if anyone knew what "item 27" meant, because I seem to be missing an important part of the actual OPR reference number.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Struggling with an abbreviation (two letters)
« on: Friday 14 October 22 09:04 BST (UK)  »
The first image is from a 1749 marriage record in Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire. Marriage between Andrew Urquhart and Margaret McDonald alias Dow. After each persons name there is something that looks like "Gn.". I can't quite make it out or have a clue what it means. No other persons on this page from the marriage registry have this after their names.

The second image dates from 1755 and is the baptism record of his son who had the cool name of Farquhar Urquhart. Something I can't read, and which seem to be related to the above abbreviation, is written after the father's name.

Any ideas?


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Scotland / Weird marriage OPR (1738) that is something else
« on: Sunday 20 February 22 21:28 GMT (UK)  »
While researching a marriage on scotlandspeople I hit on a search result that looked interesting - correct name for the husband, year and place: James Neil, New Monkland, 1738. However, it was indexed as "name not given" for the spouse. I purchased the item and was surprised to see that it was not a page from the marriage registry, but rather what appears to be a page from the session accounts - there is money collected on the sabbath.

Is this actually a record of marriage? Anyone know if the word "Info" is perhaps short for something like "informal"? Perhaps referring to an irregular marriage. All persons on the page paid 1s 10d. Perhaps a fine?

From my research I know that this couple got hauled in front of the session court of an entirely different parish for being irregularly married.


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Inverness / Three Munro sisters from Inverness, born c.1880
« on: Friday 11 August 17 23:09 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying, without much success, to find out what happened to the three daughters of Alexander Munro (1845–1927) and Mary MacLeod (c.1848–1896).

They were: Isabella (b. 1878), Christina (b.1880) and Mary (b.1881). The birth years are calculated from census, so might not be precise. My grandmother referred to them as the "Belles of Invernes".

The 1891 census records them with the family at Roan Cottage, Muirtown Locks, Inverness. The 1901 census shows Isabella, and younger brother, at home with her father, now a widower, at "Canal Bank Trane Cottage", Inverness. After this, I've lost all trace.

All I have really is their names and this rather nice photograph:


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