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Ireland / Re: Looking for information on Moses and James Davidson
« on: Saturday 26 March 22 12:28 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for all your suggestions. I've gone onto SP and located the relevant records.
Robert Davidson's birth in Shotts 1870 (not 1871 as I mentioned originally) confirms the Broughshane place of marriage for parents Moses and Helen/Ellen in 1851. I have attached the SP record.
I was thinking the same thing, the combination of names as the married couple and the year of marriage makes it very likely it is the couple I'm looking for.
The image that you shared for the marriage is the same one that I found (poor quality), and the name James ties in with the fathers name on the death record of Helen in 1878.
1 - Looks like James McBride and Janet Stewart named as parents.
2 - Moses' father on the marriage is James Davidson and mother Ann Irvine
Regards,
Gary
QuoteEliza Davidson born Lanarkshire 1867
Robert Davidson born Lanarkshire 1871
The Scottish birth certificates should include date and place of parents' marriage which would make it easy to confirm or rule out the Broughshane marriage posted above*.
* I think occupation for groom's father is farmer not 'gardner' as suggested earlier.
Robert Davidson's birth in Shotts 1870 (not 1871 as I mentioned originally) confirms the Broughshane place of marriage for parents Moses and Helen/Ellen in 1851. I have attached the SP record.
I would say the Ballymena marriage stands a more than extremely good chance of being your couple. Your couple's names individually are by no means unique, but I would be more inclined to think the combination - as a married couple - would warrant a very good look at the marrying pair.
I was thinking the same thing, the combination of names as the married couple and the year of marriage makes it very likely it is the couple I'm looking for.
Have you got a better image of the 1851 marriage? I think his father is James, or is it John? Hers is certainly James.
1) Helen/Ellen died 1878. Registered on SP in Shotts, Helen McBride or Davidson, aged 52. mms Stewart. Looking for her father's name on the death record?
2) Moses remarried in 1880 to Charlotte Murphy. They are on the 1881 Census, with his son Robert by Hellen/Ellen and Charlotte's children by her prior marriage. Who is Moses' father on that marriage?
3) Moses died in a mining accident in 1884. Who is his father on that Death record?
The image that you shared for the marriage is the same one that I found (poor quality), and the name James ties in with the fathers name on the death record of Helen in 1878.
1 - Looks like James McBride and Janet Stewart named as parents.
2 - Moses' father on the marriage is James Davidson and mother Ann Irvine
Regards,
Gary