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Hi- thanks - yes, I have phoned the office in Inverness, but they only know what is in the records they inherited in 1975 when local government re-organisation took place: they have a record of the current owner of the lair, my father, but that's no help. And because this graveyard is not directly linked to a church - as far as I know- there seems to be no easy way to check other records. So, no further forward.   

Oops - sorry for the lack of initial detail and thanks for replies: I was  trying to find a death certificate recorded anywhere in Scotland, for Alexander Grant, between 1807 and 1840.   I found quite a few, about 52 in OPR records, for Alexander Grant, none obviously relevant to me, but in about 90%, no parent name was given. I was trying to figure out why, since if the informant was able to give the dead persons name, and would probably be from the same area, and I assumed should therefore also know the parents names.  It looks like there was no requirement to give or record the parents names in the case of a death at that time- is that correct??

And yes, although it is in the wrong thread, (see  WHO USED AN ALIAS AND WHY, June 6th ) I rather like the new pair of Glafses. (I had thought the particular Registrar in Kingussie, who recorded the relevant marriage, and wrote in a beautiful clear hand, just used the long "s" in the word Glass:  and (with help from others - thanks to all) also had concluded since that husband spoke Gaelic, that this meant grey or pale, and the alias was used as a discriminant in his own community. 

I wondered why he lived in a blacksmith's house, (if my online Gaelic translator is accurate, and it did not really mean he lived in a goblin's house -which was another translation I was offered) since shortly after his marriage, on his son's birth certificate, he is described as a farmer.

Also, the Laggan referred to might instead be in Kilmonivaig, at the head of loch Lochy, which is thirty miles further west, this fitting with no traceable Duncan Grant living in Laggan (by Loch Laggan) at around that time.
There was and is a group of houses at the head of loch Lochy, known as Balmaglaster, and there was a Duncan Grant and his wife Anne , probably ne Mcdonald, living there when census records began in 1841, whose ages approximately match ...and this Duncan,  from the census, might have been the person, long dead, referred to (anecdotally) by my father, when we were children, and we were living nearby in Invergarry, as "old Duncan Glaster"  But I cannot determine if these two Duncans were one and the same. The childrens' ages work out against mother's age, just, if this was one family.  If it was two families, census data makes the first son to Duncan(2) as Peter, but if that is so, I cannot trace another marriage record that fits, and if they are one and the same, I cannot find deaths recorded for the first Donald and the first Alexander.

Any help or suggestions much appreciated.

Children were I think
20/10/1804 son, Donald.(??died - see later same name)(Mother ??age 16- no birth certificate found)
8/3/1807 son Duncan
1809 son Alexander (?? died - see later same name)
18/4/12 daughter Anne
13/12/1814 daughter Isobelle
1816 son Peter
1826 son Alexander
1829 daughter Mary
1831 son Ewan
1833 son Donald (Mum now age around 45)

Hi -I am in process of identifying members in my family tree: one such may be a Duncan Grant from Laggan (?which Laggan?) who is recorded on the marriage certificate as "alias Duncan Glafs". Has anyone an idea what this word might mean, and has anyone come across the use of an alias in similar contexts?
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