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Ayrshire / Re: Baird Ayr.
« on: Friday 17 May 24 01:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Glynn65 on Thursday 16 May 24 07:15 BST (UK)
unsure where Helen Died, but Helen was born in Dundee on 26 Jan 1790

I cannot see a baptism with that birth date in Dundee, only one is in Renfrewshire with parents Thomas WATSON and Isabel FROW.

If John and Helen died before registration started in 1855 then you may not find any records.  Burial records are few and far between in Scotland.

In 1841 John Jnr. was a jeweller's apprentice.  I think he married Christian/Christina MITCHELL in St Cuthbert's in 1843.  They can be followed through the census records to 1891 in Perth and John died in 1893.
   
JOHN BAIRD
Aged 72
Mother's maiden surname: WATSON
1893
387 / 591
Perth

Debra  :)

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Ayrshire / Re: Baird Ayr.
« on: Thursday 16 May 24 12:21 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Neale1961 on Thursday 16 May 24 07:15 BST (UK)
The 1871 census has John living in St Andrew Dundee with his daughter Jane.

According to the census, John was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, not Ayrshire.

Are you looking at the correct John and Helen?

That Jane is far too old to be the Jane who was the daughter of John BAIRD and Helen WATSON.  She was baptised in 1820 so would have been around 51 in 1871, not 63.  The 1871 Jane married in 1833.  The Dalfield Walk family in Dundee are not the right ones.

This looks like the right ones in Madon Bank (Meadow Bank?), St Cuthberts, Edinburgh in 1841.

John Baird  45, Gardener
Helen Baird  45
Jane Baird  20
John Baird  15
Wm Baird  15
Elbert Mcallister  40
Euphemia Mcallister  40

Just a transcription so I can't vouch for accuracy.  John and Helen thought they were aged 45-49 so a year of birth around 1792 - 1796.

Debra  :)

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Lancashire / Re: John Graham location please
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 13:10 BST (UK)  »
The surname is GRASSAM for that family, father John GRASSAM mother Elizabeth WITTER.

There is a John GRAHAM who is a visitor in 1861 in the home of Hellen PATTERSON, a milliner.  Another visitor is Mary Ann TOWNSEND who is a widow.  There is a marriage in Liverpool in 1856 between a Mary Ann GRAHAM and Isaac TOWNSEND.

Debra  :)

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Australia / Re: birth /death
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 01:49 BST (UK)  »
Still Births Register

https://researchdata.edu.au/vprs-11769-still-births-register/155694

It appears that the pre-1967 records were destroyed at some stage

Debra  :)

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The Common Room / Re: GRO digital images £2.50
« on: Saturday 11 May 24 06:29 BST (UK)  »
It is not a double registration, it has just been indexed twice as the named father and mother were not married.  This is also why her occupation is given.  If they were married, or pretending to be, her name would be recorded as Grace JOLLY formerly PRITCHARD.

Debra  :)

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London and Middlesex / Re: CHARLES EDWARD BERBRIDGE WW1
« on: Friday 10 May 24 23:28 BST (UK)  »
His service records state that he died in Switzerland.

Debra  :)

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Kent / Re: Alice May North 1876-1943 Deal
« on: Friday 10 May 24 21:40 BST (UK)  »
Gro indexes are offline at the moment but there are family trees on Ancestry which claim this to be Alice.

Births Jun 1876

LEITH, Alice May N
Kensington    1a   40

The N may be 'NORTH'. 

1891 Census

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3TNS-SN2

Original copy has Alice M NORTH.

Debra  :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alice Evelyn Harcourt MYSTERY
« on: Friday 10 May 24 13:03 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: mckha489 on Thursday 09 May 24 22:51 BST (UK)
I see a couple at least of Alice & Nathaniel’s children’s baptisms are in the non-conformist registers.
So I wonder if the George Harcourt death age 30 buried    1 Sep 1842 at Spa Fields (countess of Huntingdon Connexion) is worth pursuing.
£2.50 to look at his death cert

HARCOURT, GEORGE       30 
GRO Reference: 1842  S Quarter in SAINT JAMES WESTMINSTER  Volume 01  Page 75

He might be the one who married Margaret BLACK in 1836.  Two sons died in infancy, George Alexander and Richard and possibly an Eliza but I cannot see a birth reg. for her, all Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.  They all died really close together in 1842 so perhaps they had the same lurgy.  Margaret remarried to a Tailor named William HALL in 1846.

Debra  :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alice Evelyn Harcourt MYSTERY
« on: Friday 10 May 24 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Sounds a bit convenient to me, the only child of someone who has died   ;D

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