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« on: Wednesday 10 February 21 03:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi I am trying to find information about the parent/parents of my grandmother, Margaret Douglas Wick Anderson. Her birth certificate was registered in Edinburgh DOB 1 June 1929. According to her birth certificate mother was Agnes Anderson “daughter of oresman”. Domicile: South Lodge Kirknewton.
No father information.
My grandmother may have been an orphan, but how to find records, would her mother have been listed if she was an orphan immediately?
I would love any information on what is an oresman- a miner? I’ve been reading shale mining was common in Kirknewton in this time frame? Any information on South Lodge? Where to even begin finding orphan records for this time and region? Thanks in advance