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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: Forsyth Prestonpans.
« on: Thursday 01 November 12 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
 I wish it was that easy. Robert and Jessie migrated to Sydney, one daughter Helen was born in Scotland and two more, Margaret and Jean were born in Australia. I also know all his brothers and sister, his father and grandfather and their family's but I can't find a Wesley Forsyth.

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: Forsyth Prestonpans.
« on: Tuesday 30 October 12 23:36 GMT (UK)  »
What I took to be a single entry on the 2/8/1849, my mother Wesley Forsyth , is actually two entries. I realised the birthday book must have belonged to Robert Forsyth when I remembered his mother was born on that date but I still don't know who Wesley Forsyth is.

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Forsyth Prestonpans.
« on: Sunday 28 October 12 23:59 GMT (UK)  »
I've just come across a small birthday book of Forsyth birthdays and I have a puzzle. Most of birthdays are for the family of Robert and Jessie Forsyth but one entry is for my mother Wesley Forsyth 2/8/1908. I don't know if its a birth or death and I've never come across Wesley Forsyth until now. Has anyone any ideas?
Grandi

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Caithness / Re: Bain
« on: Saturday 04 August 12 08:07 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Smith
 What happened to the Maitland certificate for Joseph?

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Caithness / Re: Bain
« on: Friday 08 June 12 00:26 BST (UK)  »
Hi Trish
 According to his death certificate he was 68, died 20 Dec. 1878 so he would have been born in the West Indies about 1810. 26 years in N.S.W. but no information on mother or father.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo dating please
« on: Wednesday 06 June 12 11:18 BST (UK)  »
Photo was taken in Australia ans I'm sure the girl is Sophia Jane and if your right about the age of the woman sitting then she must be Sophia's sister Emma Hodges born in 1855.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Photo dating please
« on: Monday 04 June 12 03:00 BST (UK)  »
The original is a tintype 8.5 by 6.5 cm. The woman sitting is Charlotte Hodges nee Hobbs 1826/1906. The girl standing is Sophia Jane Hodges 1859/1951.

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Caithness / Re: Bain
« on: Tuesday 29 May 12 02:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Trish
Don't believe he was American, according to his death certificate and the birth certificate of his son Joseph, 16 Sept. 1856 he was born in the West Indies. I've also found a reference to Joseph's twin Benjamin as a school teacher in country N.S.W. describing him as a south sea islander. In another report his daughter Caroline, born 1854 was described as colored.

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Caithness / Re: Bain
« on: Monday 28 May 12 00:48 BST (UK)  »
Hi Trish
Elizabeth Bain married Joseph Freeman 27 October 1853, St Phillips C of E Sydney N.S.W. Are you Di's Cousin?

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