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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean COMPLETED
« on: Tuesday 26 March 24 01:27 GMT (UK)  »
I'm a bit confused. If Amelia was 29 when she married to Allan in 1888. She couldn't have become a widow in 1867, 21 years before she got married again . Maybe that 1867 should have been 1887?

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean COMPLETED
« on: Monday 25 March 24 15:40 GMT (UK)  »
I can give you a lot of information on Allan McLean's side of the family, but I know nothing of the woman he married, Amelia Watts. I know that when they married he was in his late 50's and she was in her late 20's,  a widow with several children when they married. They had three children together.
Read Craighill's post on Tuesday 05 April 11 22:28 BST (UK) That gives you a lot of information on the McLean side.   

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean COMPLETED
« on: Wednesday 07 February 24 19:40 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I'm interested. I have a brother, we are both descendants of the McLean's for Coll. My grandmother always said she was descended from the Lochbuie line.

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Buteshire / Mary Murray (nee Patrick)
« on: Sunday 26 June 16 06:05 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for information about my maternal grandmother, Mary Murray, nee Patrick.. She lived on the Island of Bute, Scotland, was married to William Murray, they had 3 children, 2 boys, Allistair and James, and a girl Sarah (my mother) They were born around 1910-1914.
The marriage broke up, and I'd like to know what happened to her. She may have remarried. I think may have lived in Paisley or Greenock. May have died in the 1960's

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help please with missing word: a rather ---- edition of Omar Khayyam
« on: Saturday 18 June 16 20:12 BST (UK)  »
Could the word  be wizened  edition of  . . . . .

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New Zealand Completed Requests / COMPLETED
« on: Saturday 16 April 11 18:15 BST (UK)  »
I would like to thank Althea, Beg, and Lucy 2, for all the excellent research done on my behalf.

I now know who wrote the letter dated 1878 New Zealand, and have also solved the mystery of my great grand mother.

I'm delighted that I am now in touch with my two cousins in the UK that I knew 57 years ago.

Well done everyone,  :-* from me.

Cheers, Powerhouse

P.S. Am I correct in understanding that my file will be kept in the Completed section of the Website and can be accessed in the future?

 

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 02:21 BST (UK)  »
Wow! That was a surprise from CraigHill  ;D

I have been holding on to a lot of info that I got from Scotlands people until tomorrow, when I can finally get the last piece of the link from Scotland's 1911 Census.
It will verify that Flora McKay (wife of Murdoch) from Glasgow was indeed my great-grandmother.
What I didn't know was the link to Archibald and Mary Campbell. I have an 1881 Census that shows my grandmother living with them when she was 11 years old.
Correct me if I'm wrong CraigHill, but I think you meant that Breadalbane (my grandmother) went to live with her aunt Mary in Bute, not Flora.
Thank you CraigHill for your information  :) I am the daughter of Dugald Campbell McLean, and now I know where his middle name came from.
So Mary and Archibald Campbell are a significant link to the puzzle!
I think much of the information I didn't have was because of my grandmother being born 'illegitimate' and that was considered shameful back then, so was never talked about.
Thank goodness the world has changed.  :)
I will look forward to any other information you have CraigHill.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean
« on: Saturday 19 March 11 07:52 GMT (UK)  »
I just had a quick look at your chart Beg, and by the looks of it you're not far wrong!
I will print that out and make changes if need be.
Thanks for hanging in there with me, we'll get to the bottom of this mystery man yet! :)

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: McLean
« on: Friday 18 March 11 21:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Beg,
Just to let you know I will need a few days to sift through all the information you have  sent.  You have some info in there that I am aware of and I'll  need to separate that from what I don't know.
So, I appreciate your research and will get back to you when I have straightened the info in my mind.
I think I need to make up a chart that I can see.  I'm one of those 'visual' people.
Thanks again . . . . ;D

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