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Hi, wonder if anyone can shed a bit of light on this. After not being able to find my grandmother on the 1911 Census, I finally found her in Calton in Glasgow (she was born in Greenock) in what I think was a poorhouse. But when I look for the poorhouse in Calton I find there was a poorhouse on Clyde St but that seems to have been demolished prior to 1911. Does anyone know if there was a poorhouse in Calton and have any more info on that. thanks

I am looking at the 1841 census at the family of a Donald McKenzie. Found one who looks good in Badidaroch with his family. The names of the children look good. I've got quite a bit of information on the family now. Donald is given as 60 years old and the children are listed as
Murdo Mckenzie   20
John Mckenzie   15
Rodk Mckenzie   15
Janet Mckenzie   13

The names Murdo John and Janet were all known to me and tie in well. Roderick I wasn't aware of. I notice he's the same age as John so either they are twins or one of them is about to turn 16 pretty sharpish or he's a relative.

I can't see any relationship status on the record and not sure if I'm just missing it. I have looked on ancestry and freecen and can't see relationship status for the people named on the census. I wonder if anyone would know if this information was on the 1841 census. I also would like to know Donald's status ie whether he is a widow. Thanks for any help.

I just realised that the Gabriel Wood Mariners home still exists in Greenock. Some of the records survive. One of my ancestors worked at this establishment in 1901 and appears there on the census returns. I am obviously going to contact them to find out exactly what they have but I just wondered if anyone on here has one research there and might know what kind of material they have access to. Thanks.

hi all, just wondered if anyone out there is looking at the family of William McCall and Nellie Peacock from Paisley who went to the US via Canada in 1910. They had a son Gavin McCall - appears in the records often as Gavin P McCall - who married a possible relative of mine Mary McMillan. They had two children Robert and Barbara. Though they mostly appear in census returns for Buffalo NY there appears to be a reg of death for Gavin in California in 1990.

I would love to hear from anyone else with a connection to/interest in this family who could help me with research.

I might just put a note of this on the board for the USA as well, hope it's ok to do this, as someone who uses that board may know something of the family. Thanks for any help.

I have a real headache with one of my ancestors here and I'm wondering if someone else looking at it can see something which I'm not getting. Maybe I'm hitting on the wrong person. Thanks for any help you can give.

I have posted elsewhere on the Ross and Cromarty board but thought I'd put something on here because one census return shows Flora being born in Greenock.

I have a Flora McLeod/MacLeod who married a Murdoch McKenzie. I can't find a marriage cert for them and I can't find a birth cert for either which is obvious to me at this time.

I am puzzling over where they came from. I think that Murdoch possibly came from Lochbroom but Also it's entirely possible he was from Assynt in Sutherland.  I can't really find any information about Flora.

Except her death cert. She died in Greenock in 1910. Age given on death cert is 91. So if that's right she would have been born 1819. Her parents are given as Donald McLeod crofter dec and Christina McDonald dec. Given the names and the fact father was a crofter I obviously thought she, like Murdoch, came from somewhere more north. But I think I see her on 1851 census. What I see there just confounds me.

If I have the right lady it gives her age as 26. I can't see any sign of any children with her. It describes her as wife of a seaman. Murdoch, the husband, appears to be in Inverness for that census. He's stationed there with the Merchant Navy. Her address at that time is Charles St, Lamont's Land (does anyone know anything of that, never heard of Lamont's Land).  It says she was born in Greenock.

Both her and Murdoch's death are reported by a son Murdoch.

If I have the right Flora McKenzie then there's some discrepancy with age. Also, I can only find these births on igi. If they were married in 1851 did they really only have their first child in 186o?? Ok that doesn't mean there weren't earlier children, maybe they're just not on igi. But why are none of them with her in Greenock in 1851?


these are the births I can find for their children on igi.

Flora Mckenzie
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth:   16 May 1862   AHARACLE,​ARGYLL,​SCOTLAND
parents:   Murdoch Mckenzie,​ Flora Mcleod
Angus Mckenzie
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth:   18 Nov 1860   AHARACLE,​ARGYLL,​SCOTLAND
parents:   Murdoch Mckenzie,​ Flora Mcleod
Catharine Mac Kenzie Or Mc Leod
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth:   24 Apr 1865   LOGIE-​EASTER,​ROSS AND CROMARTY,​SCOTLAND
parents:   Murdoch Mac Kenzie,​ Flora Mc Leod
Hugh Mac Kenzie Or Mc Leod
Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
birth:   16 Oct 1867   LOGIE-​EASTER,​ROSS AND CROMARTY,​SCOTLAND
parents:   Murdoch Mac Kenzie,​ Flora Mc Leod

Any suggestions on this. Getting tied up in knots with it.