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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Mother's Maiden name on a Scottish Death Cert?
« on: Wednesday 13 February 13 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Monica

It looks like Fine in brackets and then something like Flechanny written above.


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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Children of Roderick McKenzie 1831-1901 and Mary Cameron 1826-1910
« on: Sunday 06 January 13 16:24 GMT (UK)  »
Could I check Mary's birthplace, please?  You say
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Mary b 13 Sep 1826 Forres Morayshire
but all the census entries have her born Knockbain circa 1830

I'm wondering if this is Malcolm in 1881 with a relative, Alexander Cameron:

1881
55 Thomson Street, Govan - multi-occ
Alexander Cameron, hd, mar, 42, house carpenter, b. Urquhart,  Rossshire
Elizabeth, w, 33, b. Glasgow
Alexander, s, 9, b. Partick
John McM, 4, b. -do-
Andrew D, s, 1, b. -do-
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Malcolm McKenzie, lodger, 21, spirit dealers assistant, b. Urquhart,
Charles Frazer, lodger, unm, 27, -do-, b. Morayshire


Added - this looks a better possible for Mary Cameron's birth/bpt :


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQ73-YYY

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Scotland / Re: help with Agnes Ellen Williams (maybe not born in Scotland!)
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 22:46 BST (UK)  »
 :)

Mary Ellen Williams, widow, aged 48, married  William Cringles, coal miner in Blytheswood, 3 March 1911. Her parents are given as Alexander Plunkett, stevedore and Susannah Plunkett M.S McLuskey. Both deceased.

JL


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Silverfish got to Julia - Restoration please
« on: Tuesday 03 May 11 15:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi

One from me


JL

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Dunbartonshire / Re: Jane or Jean Murray
« on: Sunday 27 February 11 23:20 GMT (UK)  »
Ah - Jean Mcintosh Watt was aged 36 in Feb 1931 so b. 1994-5 ish

Father was a Charles Watt, shipwright (dec)  and Mother was Elizabeth m.s. Murray


JL


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?
« on: Sunday 27 February 11 23:00 GMT (UK)  »
Just remembered that there was quite a spate of building the 2 storey houses with the dormer windows in the Highlands  around 1921- ish.


Would that fit ?



JL

PS - usually the bigger houses were  the school house and manse before then

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Dunbartonshire / Re: Jane or Jean Murray
« on: Sunday 27 February 11 22:53 GMT (UK)  »
No Nixon/Murray marriage but a Watt/Nixon marriage:

1931 - Glasgow Calton - Samuel Nixon and Jean McIntosh Watt


JL

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Dunbartonshire / Re: Jane or Jean Murray
« on: Sunday 27 February 11 22:45 GMT (UK)  »
Nothing with a surname Nixon (soundex) and a birth circa 1893 ish from 1961-1965 in Lanarkshire

BUT a Jean Nixon, other names Murray Watt in Old or West Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire in 1962.  This death cert is too recent to view on line and would have to be ordered.


JL

Added - missed her age - she was 68 - so born circa 1894  :)

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date for this photo of Highland Croft House?
« on: Sunday 27 February 11 22:38 GMT (UK)  »
Could I just add that I lived in a corrugated roofed croft house like that in Ross-shire on and off from 1984 to 1993.

Very few wooden roofs in the Highlands - too wet!

My guess is 1940s-1950s by the style of the 2 storey house.


JL

PS - very noisy when it rained which was often  ::)

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