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Thanks all, what a result. Whats really weird is that in the picture of Fore Chase the door is number 3 and thats where my Dad was living in 1939! Thanks everyone for the quick response. Dave

Hi there. I have seen registration on SP that says he was illegitemate, and the RCE that names his father as David Couttie. My sister is coming to see me tomorrow, and she has his birth certificate. That says strangely that fathers name is David Couttie Turner! I have found out that Lexy Cochran Turner had a daughter before my father and one after. All illegitimate. As far as I know the girls were living with the maternal grandmother, but no sign of my father. i am working my way through his aunts at the moment, but is slow (and expensive).

Its all a bit mixed up, but here goes.
On birth registration she is lexy Cochran Turner.
Just after she is born in 1874 her mother marries John Fraser.
On the 1881 census she is Alexy Cochran Turner Fraser.
On the 1891 census she is Lexy C Turner, and with her grandmother.
1901census I thought i found her but now cant track it.
1911 census she is Lexy Turner and living alone at 123 Chapel St.
In 1935 she marries Thomas Hurry (she was 61).
She dies in 1960 and the informant is her daughter Alexina who is then Alexina Ross.

Thanks Malky. If he had been adopted and had his name changed would he have his birth certificate, and could he change his name back? On his Death Certificate he is Alfred Fraser Turner, although as I said before he was always called Dave by everybody. He met and married my Mum in London and spent the rest of his life there. We were all quite young when he died so we never really got the chance to ask all this. i do remember we had relatives come down from Scotland after he died, so he had kept in touch with them.

Sorry also meant to say that is the right person. there is one for St. Machar and one for Newhills, transcribed from one to the other. It says he was born in Oldmill Newhills, am I right in thinkiking that is a poorhouse. But as I say no sign of him on 1911 census.