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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA ethnicity logic check / Unexpected result
« on: Tuesday 11 January 22 21:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Andy,

I have read your thread with great interest. I can't help with any suggestions other than ones which have already been made, however, I wish you all the best with your search and I truly admire the way that you are handling this.

Life is extremely complicated, and it's only in recent years that we have access to so much information. I suspect that in all of our 'trees' somewhere along the line, there will be similar stories.

Good luck with your search and all the best to your dad too.

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The Common Room / Re: New Ancestry hints help
« on: Thursday 15 April 21 13:14 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Pheno on Tuesday 13 April 21 19:17 BST (UK)


You can stop receiving hints for Ancestry trees by going to your Account (drop down in top right corner under your user name) and then site preferences.

I have turned all such hints off and never receive them so it does work.

Pheno

Amazing! This is a game changer - thank you for bringing this up

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry UK Hints
« on: Tuesday 13 April 21 14:26 BST (UK)  »
I haven't used it for a while and going through another research phase this week - I find it very confusing.

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The Common Room / Re: ~Rachel~ Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Sunday 11 April 21 16:56 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Lesanne on Sunday 11 April 21 16:45 BST (UK)
Joan Sheila Mary Blackwood Temple MacDonald

this is wrongly transcribed... 28 Jan 1917   

the original reads.. bapt 28 January 1914 born 19 Dec 1913

St Luke, Chelsea   
Kensington and Chelsea   
Stewart,
Eileen Mary

Hi Lesanne!

Thank you for your input. Where abouts did you see this, as the copy I have definitely states baptisms listed in 1917?

Thanks :)

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The Common Room / Re: ~Rachel~ Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Sunday 11 April 21 14:57 BST (UK)  »
I'm off down a rabbit hole now :)

I have found a Stuart Macdonald on the Medical Register for 1913 (there are two listed).

The one I am interested in is:

Name: Stuart Macdonald
Address: Army Medical Service
Date & Place of Registration: 1884, April 21 S
Qualifications: M.B. Mast. Surg. 1884, Univ. Aberd.

It seems he was born in 1861 in Elgin, Moray, Scotland to William Macdonald and Eliza Watson Stuart.

There is a paragraph on him in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal on 21st January 1916:

"Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. Colonel Stewart Macdonald R.A.M.C - Graduated M.B., C.M, at Aberdeen University in 1884. He is the son of Mr William Macdonald, Elgin. He joined the medical service in the army in 1887, and was appointed a major of the R.A.M.C in 1899. He has the medal with two clasps for the Tirah expedition in 1897-98"

However, it seems he died in 1939 as the Probate Death Index lists:.

MACDONALD C.B. C.M.G. A.M.S Stuart of Willowbank Moss-street Elgin died 19 May 1939 Confirmation of William Macdonald. Sealed London 26 August.

He appears on the 1871 census as a visitor, in Paddington, London. Occupation 'Surgeon Army Med Staff Army Off', born Elgin, single.

1911 census - aged 49, single, boarder. Major RAM Corps at the Royal Army Medical College, Grosvenor Road Westminster. This is 1.4 miles away from where Bridget is recorded as living for Sheila's baptism in 1917.

I realise London is a big and busy place, however, it puts someone of the correct name, with the occupation that I have been told, in the same area.

There would be an age gap of approx 20 years between Bridget and himself.

Another tenuous link, when Sheila Macdonal married Hugh Sixsmith she married into a family of high ranking army medical officers. Surely those circles were small in those days?

Anyway... off to give it some more thought.

He could, of course, still entirely be a work of fiction!! And it doesn't bring me any closer to finding Sheila's birth, or who Bridget was. It's a puzzle.

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The Common Room / Re: ~Rachel~ Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Sunday 11 April 21 13:41 BST (UK)  »
Hello!

I am still around... thank you for the renewed interest.

I still haven't resolved this and have had subsequent tries many times over the years.

Having read back through the thread, I think the 'new' information I have now is:

- Sheila's baptism record from 17th January 1917 at St Lukes, Chelsea (as mentioned on the previous page). The record states that her father was Stewart Macdonald (deceased). Previously the name had been Alexander Macdonald, for example on Sheila's marriage cert. I have tried searching various different combinations of the names, however, as was suspected at the beginning it seems that he is not a real person. The story went that the father was a doctor in the war and returned to deal with the flu epidemic, and then died. If he supposedly died before January 1917 then that cannot be true.

- The address on the baptism certificate is 39 Royal Avenue. I have searched for that address on the 1911 census and it's '39 and 41 Royal Avenue, Belgrave Nursing Home, Chelsea S W' and the census is made up of nursing staff and patients.

- I wrote to the Red Cross, someone with records for QAIMS (I can't remember exactly who) and also somewhere with suffragette records asking for any information on Bridget, or Eileen, Macdonald of Fitzgerald and none of them had any records.

- Having researched the history further, it would have been very unlikely that a married woman went to the front in the War as a nurse - they were single.

- Bridget Fitzgerald/MacDonald definitely had had some medical training. The 1939 register lists her as a 'state registered nurse' although again I can't find her in any nursing records.

So really, I am no closer to finding out who Bridget and Sheila were than I was eleven years ago.

Thank you for reading :)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Where is Edward Skinner?
« on: Sunday 18 October 20 18:39 BST (UK)  »
Hello - thank you all - yes sorry I meant Thomas Skinner instead of Thomas Ketley!

Hanes Telu that's a great find on the 1851 for Thomas, how on earth did you mange that?!

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London and Middlesex / Where is Edward Skinner?
« on: Thursday 15 October 20 14:13 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I am working backwards searching for records on Edward Skinner and have been unable to find him before his marriage. He died in 1870.

Born abt. 1838 and according to the 1861 census he was born in Bow, Middlesex. (In 1861 he was living in Woolwich and was a musician in the Royal Marines).

1859 - married Mary Ann Ketley in Woolwich. His father was listed as Thomas Ketley, a carpenter.

Please would someone be able to help me find him in 1851, 1841 and maybe a baptism? I have seen a couple of options but they do not have his father as baing a carpenter.

Thanks in advance :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher 1871 census occupation
« on: Tuesday 30 June 20 12:40 BST (UK)  »
I've gone cross eyed this morning trying to figure it out!

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