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Hello everyone - me again!

So I've worked a lot out for my family tree but I am now totally stuck yet again. Funnily enough (funny for someone else, not for me!) I am stuck now on the first ancestor I was specifically trying to find - urgh!

So, anyway, I have found my ancestor, James McPherson. I have no birth or death date. All I know is that he married Elizabeth Armstrong on October 30th, 1817, in Portpatrick, Wigtown. Elizabeth was born in 1796 in Portpatrick, and died on May 26th, 1877.

James and Elizabeth had a daugter, Susan McPherson, who was born April 22nd 1822 in Stonykirk and died 26 October 1899. She married a man named Robert Shaw on September 29 1842 in Kirkmaiden. I am descendant of this line and am trying to trace back the McPherson side.

So, again, I have no info at all on James and his line is the specific one I am trying to trace back.

Do you all have any thoughts?

As a secondary... this link is to a snippet of a document on my Google Drive account that was too large to post here as an attachment.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O_fOKesOngq6-GOpQ8e25v5hI5ri4a1t/view?usp=sharing

This is the death certificate for that Elizabeth Armstrong. At the time of her death she had remarried to a man named Robert McGarvie, but on that death cert it lists James McPherson as her first husband. I cannot read the other info below it... I'm also not sure if it lists some kind of death info for James McPherson either - can any of you help interpret this?

Secondly, I know it lists Elizabeth's mother as Susanna Armstrong nee Rennie, but I cannot at all read Elizabeth's father's name. Any thoughts on that as well?

As always, the McPherson line is the primary, but I am hoping that MAYBE some detail on the Armstrongs could help lead me there somehow.

Thank you so much in advance!!

Hello!

I am writing here (I've been getting more active on RootsChat lately) requesting some assistance clarifying and working on one of my ancestors, William Harrison.

From the censuses I have found, assuming they're correct, he appears to be from Lincolnshire, potentially Boothby, and born around 1844-1846.

If this is the right William Harrison (if the name William is even right), I have him as married to a Mary Anne Jones (born around 1851, Llangadfan, Wales) in 1872.

Now, how I even got this far, is that I know my Great Grandfather, whose name is Robert Harrison. Robert was born 6 JUN 1889 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, and died on 10 OCT 1945 in Liverpool North, Lancashire, England. This I know to be fact.

Also fact, is that Robert married Ethel Salter Phillips (born 16 FEB 1891, in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, and died 22 MAR 1934). They were married on Feb 29 1916 in West Derby, Lancashire. They had five children, Margaret (died young), Ethel (died young), Robert Henry, Sidney, and Arthur Edwin (who is my grandfather).

So, to go over this again, I need help confirming who the mother and father are of Robert Harrison (the one born in 1889, this Robert is the father of my grandfather). If Robert's father is the William Adam Harrison that I suspect it is, I need to confirm who is mother is (maybe Mary Anne Jones).

Once I do that, I need to confirm William Harrison and Mary Anne Jones's parents. Primarily I am focused on William's parents. I believe that they COULD be Thomas Harrison (born around 1811 in Lincolnshire) and Ann Lovelee (spelling could be different, born around the same time, also in Lincolnshire).

So, now that I dumped out a ton of information... does anyone here have any thoughts?

Thank you!!!

**if you think this would belong better in the general board, then please let me know!**

Hello, everyone! I am digging down deeper into my Scottish roots and I find I need some help - I am currently stuck.

To start off basic...
 
I have a relative named Margaret Muir, who was born in Wigtownshire on April 9th, 1820. When I found that parish birth record, I saw that her parents were listed: Robert Muir and Catherine MacLean.

That's where I'm stuck.

I can't find a single thing at all on this Robert Muir, nor can I find anything on Catherine MacLean (this is the side I am interested in, in particular), other than this confusing detail...

I found a Catherin Mclean (not Maclean, as the birth cert said) who married a Robert Muir in Glasgow on 18 May 1828. This, at first, seems like it would be paydirt: the names are close enough and they match in a similar/ish area to Wigtownshire, but they were married in 1828 and their daughter Margaret was born in 1820... would this be considered odd for the time period? Again, I don't know for sure if it's MacLean or Mclean.

Now, even if we take this marriage as correct, I still cannot find a single thing further.

Does anyone have any insight or help they would be willing to lend? It would mean a lot - I've been stuck here for a couple weeks!

Thank you!