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Hi Monica

You are a genius - thank you!

I've looked for a death cert for Hugh many times over the last couple of years and never had any luck.  Would you believe I've just found it!  I've searched with the mothers maiden name Dowl or McDonald with no luck.  I've just done a search without the mothers maiden name and there his is married to Margaret Boyle - his parents names were Hugh McMenemy and Agnes McDowell - got to be them.

The thing that was throwing me was that everyone seemed to be from Glasgow and then a random birth in Dundee.  Both his parents were born in Glasgow but married in Dundee mmmm problem for another day I think.

Many thanks for your help.

I have my g granddad on a 1911 census, which shows that he was born in Dundee in 1871.  His name was Hugh McMenamy.  This is definitely  him as my gran was deaf and dumb and this is clearly recorded in the later census.  I have him on the 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses all showing him born in Dundee and the age tying up, with the exception of 1901 where he seems to be 6 years younger that he should be.  I've struggled to find a birth cert for him, and the only Hugh born in Dundee in 1871 was illegitimate, born to Agnes McDonald, who later married another Hugh McMenemy in 1873.  All good so far!  On my grandmothers birth certificate her parents are shown as Hugh McMenemy and the mother as Agnes McMenemy nee Dowl - not McDonald as I had expected.  I'm struggling to find any information on anyone called Dowl although the name does crop up but around the Shetlands.  His birth is the only thing recorded as Dundee as everything else, censuses, marriage cert, birth certs of their children are in Glasgow.  Can anyone help please?

Sorry yes!  The info I had from my relations was that she went to Corby, then Nottingham, then Newcastle and finally Durham, but no-one knows when she went or can say categorically where she went.  Like you say there arent that many Ellen Inglis's on the BMD website (thank you for that JJ didn't know it existed) it only came up with two possibilites one in Durham (1948) and one in Bedford (1960) both fit the birth year.   I will get the death certs from the GRO as you suggested and see if either is her. 

Thank you!

My gran Ellen Inglis who was born Ellen Lawlor in Glasgow, was said to be visiting her sister in Durham (I think nobody knows where she was) and she died and I believe was buried/cremated there around 1948.  She would have been 45 ish.  Her husband was Robert Inglis, her parents were Patrick and Elizabeth Lawlor.  Can anyone help??