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Banffshire / Re: John Reid & Janet Cowie
« on: Saturday 05 May 12 23:33 BST (UK) »
Yeah, thanks Dave for all those links :-)
Browsing through those links I managed to come across the transcription of the scanned record I already had: of John Reid marrying Janet Cowie in 1834. Confimration of a sort.
Further searching for birth records of the two threw up several possibilites for both, which is also progress of a kind, though, at this stage, there is no way of telling which of the possibilites are correct.
Those records are sufficiently brief that I've mulled over piecing together every Reid and Cowie family in Rathven leading up to 1834, but I'm not yet convinced that doing so would get me anywhere - especially as it'd only work if one assumed that all members of both families were born and married within the one parish.
Does anyone know what the neighbouring parishes were / are?
Thanks again,
Duncan
Browsing through those links I managed to come across the transcription of the scanned record I already had: of John Reid marrying Janet Cowie in 1834. Confimration of a sort.
Further searching for birth records of the two threw up several possibilites for both, which is also progress of a kind, though, at this stage, there is no way of telling which of the possibilites are correct.
Those records are sufficiently brief that I've mulled over piecing together every Reid and Cowie family in Rathven leading up to 1834, but I'm not yet convinced that doing so would get me anywhere - especially as it'd only work if one assumed that all members of both families were born and married within the one parish.
Does anyone know what the neighbouring parishes were / are?
Thanks again,
Duncan