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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Wednesday 09 November 16 23:58 GMT (UK)  »
I also just had a question that one of you lovely people might be able to answer. Years ago my Granny spoke about how her "Grandpa Archie" (the Archibald we've been researching), purchased a section of a cemetery for his descendants. Does anyone know how I might go about finding information about that? Unfortunately Granny has alzheimers so haven't been able to get much out of her  :(

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Wednesday 09 November 16 23:48 GMT (UK)  »
WOW  :o

Sorry for the late reply, have been catching up on all that has been posted since yesterday.

I've just double checked Archibald's marriage certificate and - not sure how I missed this - it does indeed say widower. Wow, so he had 3 children before having my great grandmother! Thanks so much for that find, Monica.

I'm definitely going to try and get to the bottom of Agnes and James. You mention the SP search gets in the way, what do you mean? Every time I've attempted to find Agnes/Ann I never get results, is there a trick to it?  :-\ I also can't find either of them on findagrave.

I've just sat down to have a go at finding them, so will post if I make any headway :)

Thanks again!
Rebecca.

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 23:11 GMT (UK)  »
Learning all this has been so exciting. Thanks :)
Have a great day!

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 23:06 GMT (UK)  »
Oh wow, wow.

I know I sound like a broken record, but thank you :)

That's very interesting, but once again, where is Agnes?! She seems rather elusive  :)

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 23:03 GMT (UK)  »
I think I may have the 1883 birth date wrong for Archibald, apologies! (I'm new to this so still find dealing with a lot of dates quite overwhelming).

I just re-checked Archibald's 1903 marriage cert which lists his age as 31, so it's likely the same Archibald you found born in 1871. It also lists James as being deceased, but Agnes is still alive.

From the information you have gathered Archibald must have been born in Glasgow (as this makes more sense), and John may be his older brother. Thank you so much for that :)

The record of Agnes you found is really interesting, I wonder why she was moved around so much?  ???

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 22:42 GMT (UK)  »
Wow!  :o

Thank you for looking into that, Monica, and for all that information. It is super helpful/interesting! Those all seem to match up quite perfectly with Agnes, and I'd never even thought to look up name variants, this will definitely help me with future research  :)

I have purchased the 1851 census you found in Baligrave which lists an Ann Black however I can't make out her birthplace. I've attached it in case anyone can help with deciphering it :)

Yes, she married James McKechnie in 1868. I'm having trouble locating her in later census' though, including her son, Archibald McKechnie.  :-\

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 20:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Billy,

Thanks for your reply!  ;D
I don't have her birth certificate yet, but this is from her marriage certificate. I asked some other lovely people on here what they thought Catherine's maiden name was and they seem to agree that it's McIntyre. Do you know who was Agnes living with in the 1851 census? I can't seem to find record of her on Bute on FreeCEN or Scotlands People (but I've only started researching genealogy in the last few weeks, so my skills are less than ideal!).

Rebecca.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering a maiden name
« on: Tuesday 08 November 16 20:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annie,

Thanks for that! Both of these certificates are from different lines so I've been trying to wrap my head around them. Seems my Great Grandmother has McIntyre on both sides of the family. I'm not too sure where either of them hail from, yet, but I know for certain that Christina McIntyre died on Lismore Island in 1880. If I find any more information I can pass it along to you  :)

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Argyllshire / Re: John Black/Isle of Lismore
« on: Monday 07 November 16 22:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Billy,

Did you happen to run across a daughter of Donald and Catherine's named Agnes? My 3x great grandmother was Agnes Black, daughter of Donald Black and Catherine (McIntyre, I think!) born in 1840. She was married in 1868 in Glasgow but then her son Archibald was born in Argyll in 1883, so it leads me to believe she may be related to the people you are researching.  :)

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