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Lanarkshire / Re: Donnelly, Cornelius and Patrick
« on: Yesterday at 21:39 »
Duplicate thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=882724.0 - which I only noticed after replying to this one.
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Renfrewshire / Re: Patrick and Alice McGuinnes Donnelly
« on: Yesterday at 21:37 »
Duplicate thread https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=882723.0
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Lanarkshire / Re: Donnelly, Cornelius and Patrick
« on: Yesterday at 21:36 »
Burial records are normally held by the relevant local authority. I believe that Eastwood comes under East Renfrewshire Council https://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/ so that is where to start.
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Scotland / Re: Scottish naming patterns
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 22:13 BST (UK) »
Maybe she didn't get on with her father? Or maybe there was a child named Hugh whose baptism wasn't recorded and who died very young - are there any gaps in the family?
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Lanarkshire / Re: John Fell - 1871 - lanarkshire
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 20:49 BST (UK) »
I came across a Joseph Burgess or Fell, illegitimate son of Jean Burgess, father's given name unknown, baptised 29 June 1789 in Middlebie, Dumfries-shire. He obviously doesn't fit any of the ones in this thread, but Joseph isn't all that common a name so it's not impossible that there might be a connection.
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Dunbartonshire / Re: The Scotts of Bowling, Glasgow of ship building fame.
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 09:30 BST (UK) »
I think the coverage of more recent dates (late 20th century onwards) in the BNA is sparse.
There used to be a free online digitised archive of the Glasgow Herald but not sure how recent it was, and I haven't found it just now.
There used to be a free online digitised archive of the Glasgow Herald but not sure how recent it was, and I haven't found it just now.
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Inverness / Re: Donald Clark Birth 14 DEC 1821 Petty,Inverness,Scotland
« on: Monday 13 May 24 22:04 BST (UK) »Recently had some information from a cousin and a researcher in Ardersier, Inverness suggesting that Donald, born 1821, married a Jane Clark 28 Mar 1848 Petty, Inverness, Scotland and again 12 Apr 1848 Ardersier, Inverness, Scotland.No, they didn't get married twice. Before the marriage they lived in different parishes, so the banns had to be called in both parishes, so what you have is two records of the same event.
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I have the marriage documents from Scotland's People but no parents listed.It's rare for parents' names to be recorded in the church records of marriages. Once civil registration started in 1855 you do get the parents' names on a marriage certificate, including (unlike England, Wales and Ireland) the mothers' maiden surnames.
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Buteshire / Re: Isabella Blcak
« on: Monday 13 May 24 17:30 BST (UK) »John mentioned on the headstone I couldnt find , but I have John born 1829 and mentioned in the 1841 census with his parents Helen and Michael Finlay , but he is not mentioned in the 1851 or 1861 census with his family and couldnt find a death for him either !!
John Findlay her son , died 8.4.1863 aged 14
(John Findlay dob 12/10/1829 Irvine)
If John was born in 1829 he was a lot older than 14 by 1863. I wondered if 1863 was a mistranscription of 1843, which would fit age-wise and also tallies with the census information you quoted.
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Death FINDLAYis from the census index, not from the deaths index. This child is the stepson of John Harvie, one of four children of Alexander Findlay and Elizabeth Cuthbertson, who were married in Kilmarnock in 1840.
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Kent / Is St Lawrence in Ramsgate?
« on: Friday 10 May 24 10:48 BST (UK) »
I'm suffering from confusing ecclesiastical geography, and I hope someone can help me sort it out, please.
Elizabeth Burgess or Anderson, widow of Duncan Anderson, died in Perth (the original one, not its namesake in Western Australia) in 1884 aged 75, parents Peter Burgess and Mary Scobie.
The Censuses all say that she was born in England; the 1881 says she was born in Ramsgate, Kent.
FindMyPast has an index listing of the baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Mary Burgess, at St Lawrence, Kent on 15 June 1806. In its usual helpful way FindMyPast does not say where in Kent St Lawrence is.
However the index listing on FindMyPast is copied from FS, which says it is St Laurence in Thanet. It lists the record three times, one of which quotes the source as Canterbury parish registers.
So is Ramsgate in St Laurence, or is St Laurence in Ramsgate, or is this the wrong Elizabeth? And is/are Ramsgate and/or St Lau/wrence and/or Thanet in Canterbury? (I have gathered that Thanet includes more of Kent than just the former Isle of Thanet, and that Ramsgate is in Thanet.)
Elizabeth Burgess or Anderson, widow of Duncan Anderson, died in Perth (the original one, not its namesake in Western Australia) in 1884 aged 75, parents Peter Burgess and Mary Scobie.
The Censuses all say that she was born in England; the 1881 says she was born in Ramsgate, Kent.
FindMyPast has an index listing of the baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter and Mary Burgess, at St Lawrence, Kent on 15 June 1806. In its usual helpful way FindMyPast does not say where in Kent St Lawrence is.
However the index listing on FindMyPast is copied from FS, which says it is St Laurence in Thanet. It lists the record three times, one of which quotes the source as Canterbury parish registers.
So is Ramsgate in St Laurence, or is St Laurence in Ramsgate, or is this the wrong Elizabeth? And is/are Ramsgate and/or St Lau/wrence and/or Thanet in Canterbury? (I have gathered that Thanet includes more of Kent than just the former Isle of Thanet, and that Ramsgate is in Thanet.)