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Wigtownshire / Re: Trying to find birth of Charles Kelly who married Janet Wallace in Stoneykirk
« on: Tuesday 05 March 13 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for your quick reply, Looby.  Much appreciated!  I think I will start looking at someone else in the family history and thanks for explaining the fact that some women changed back to their maiden name when their husbands died.  I hadn't heard of that.  Thanks again!

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Wigtownshire / Trying to find birth of Charles Kelly who married Janet Wallace in Stoneykirk
« on: Tuesday 05 March 13 06:46 GMT (UK)  »
Is there anyone that can help me with this query as I am not succeeding in my search.  Charles Kelly was my great, great Grandfather.   I can't seem to find his birth certificate/notice and I don't know where he was born.  Information I have is as follows:
Charles' Father : William Kelly, born 6/12/1788, Died 9/11/1829 (born Kilmarnock, Ayr)
Charles' Mother : Margaret Milwain. 
William and Margaret were Married 31/3/1821 at Stoneykirk
Charles's DOB: 1825 (worked this out with his age on Census.
1841 Census shows Charles aged 16yrs at the home of John Milwain aged 80yrs.
1851 Census shows Charles aged 26yrs at the home of his mother Margaret Milwain (not sure why Margaret went back to her maiden name when William Kelly died and then on her death certificate shows Margaret was back using her married name 'Kelly' - I have yet to find that out).  She died in Stranraer in 1878).
Charles Kelly married Janet Wallace in 1856 at Stoneykirk and had two children, John Kelly and Andrew Kelly.
I checked and double checked names and dates and don't think I have made any mistakes but there are so many families with the surname 'Kelly' and 'Milwain' that I could have missed something.
Is there someone that can point me in the right direction?
Thanks so much.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Help needed please / Still / Crosbie / Gordon
« on: Friday 28 October 11 00:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the information, LadyHawk.  I have joined Scotlandspeople and as an aside we always thought our grannie was born in Elgin, but it looks like her mum and dad were born and married in Elgin, came to Glasgow were she was born.  Looking at the 1901 and 1911 Census, by the age of 11 she was living in Elgin with her grandmother, while her mum, dad and brothers were living in Glasgow.  The things you find out!

One of the 5 children of Annie Mary Crosbie was Jean born 1928,  Jean died when she was 1.  There was no father's name and the birth certificate says, Annie Mary Crosbie, widow of Robert Still who died in France 27 May 1918.  So for some reason, my grandmother didn't put the father of the 5 children on the birth certificates.  I'm away to do some more research.  Thanks again.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Help needed please / Still / Crosbie / Gordon
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 08:59 BST (UK)  »
Hello Z, My mum and dad's wedding certificate reads :

Alexander Crosbie Still, Engine fitter journeyman
Mother, Annie Mary Crosbie, widow of Robert Still (tailor)
Govan Congregational Church
23 December 1942
This is the same on all the birth certificates.


I'm not sure where to go from here.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Help needed please / Still / Crosbie / Gordon
« on: Monday 24 October 11 10:29 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the welcome Spiderman!  The JP Gordon who died in 1942 was 80 years old.  I am checking on Scotlands People if he had a son.  My father used to tell us we could not only wear the Anderson tartan, but also the Gordon tartan and at that stage I wasn't working on the family history and didn't think to ask why.  He only mentioned his father was Robert Still, and said that when he (my dad) died he would leave information on the family history but there was no information to be found.  Even if I find a JP Gordon jr, I won't be able to state he was my grandfather as my grandmother didn't marry him.  But it is all so interesting I don't want to give up yet.  I'm so enjoying looking into the family history, but talk about skeletons in the cupboard!

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Family History Beginners Board / Help needed please / Still / Crosbie / Gordon
« on: Monday 24 October 11 03:19 BST (UK)  »
This is my first post and not sure where to put it.  Can someone please advise me.

My question is how do I find my Grandfather?
Information available as follows:

My Grandmother:
Annie Mary Crosbie
Born Portsoy 19 March 1890
Died 31 August 1965

Annie’s parents:
James Crosbie, born Kirkbean, Kircudbright on 23 September 1860
Christina Anderson, born Drainie 17 November 1869
Married 3 October 1890 Milburn House, Glasgow

Person I thought was my grandfather:
Robert Still
Born Portsoy 17 November 1888
Died 27 May 1918, Soissons Memorial for the Commonwealth War Dead

Annie and Robert married on 22 October 1909 at 22 South College Street Elgin

As my Dad Alexander Crosbie Still was born in 1926, Robert Still obviously wasn’t his father.  Dad had 4 siblings and all birth certificates state : mother/Annie Still, Father deceased or words to that effect.  I only found this out after my parents died and the one remaining sibling (half sibling) who lived in Aberdeen wasn’t forthcoming.  She has since passed on.  Her daughter remembers her saying that my dad’s father was a James Paterson Gordon from North Queensferry.

I have no dates or other information on James Paterson Gordon and my grandmother didn’t marry him.  So we have 4 children born to Annie Mary and Robert Still and 5 children born to Annie Mary Still, but no father mentioned.  I have spoken to all my cousins who are as amazed as I am that they never knew any of this.  It was never spoken about.  T
Can someone please point me in the right direction.

Many thanks in advance for any help offered.
Marilynoz   














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