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Is this an authentic email from Rootschat?  I did not attempt to log on to Rootschat today, nor did I click on the "I forgot my password" button.  Also, the IP listed is not my IP by a long shot! 

Does this mean someone is trying to hack my Rootschat or email account?

Thanks,
Josephine


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Rootschatters, please see the entire article.  Can anyone help the police locate the rightful owners of this suitcase?

From Arkansas Online.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/040h/

"Police: Suitcase opened after 60 years found in Rogers

"BENTONVILLE — Scattered remnants of Howard W. Evenden’s life were placed gently on a table at the Benton County sheriff’s office.

"Family members are frozen in sepia-toned photographs. Soldiers walk beside a World War I tank down an unknown road in Europe. An envelope torn on one side is postmarked 1944 from someone in Iowa and addressed to Evenden in Rogers.

"A suitcase containing pieces of Evenden’s history was found Thursday morning on a residential driveway in Rogers.

"Deputies looked through the photographs and material, dating as far back as the 1800s, for clues about whom the suitcase belongs to.

“'I don’t think this has been opened for 60 years,' said Sgt. Rich Conner.

"Deputies said they found several photographs of a man they believe is Evenden. There is also a 1937 Iowa driver’s license that listed Evenden as 56 years old.

"The sheriff’s office is looking for information about the whereabouts of Evenden’s family so they can return the lost luggage..."

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Hi, All!

Have any of you run across anyone named Isabella or Grace being called Jane?

My great-grandmother, Isabella Grace Pryde, was born in June 1870 in Edinburgh.

I have copies of her:
-  birth registration (made in June 1870)
-  birth certificate (issued in 1940)
-  marriage record (1893)
-  1901 census with her husband and children (listed as Isabella G.)
-  1912 ship list to Canada ("Mrs")
-  husband's World War One record
-  obit

All give her name as Isabella Grace.  Birth & marriage records list her parents as Robert Pryde, mason (journeyman), and Mary Muir.

But...

The family that I am convinced is the right one seems to have listed Isabella Grace as Jane in three censuses!  (At least they were consistent, I guess.) 


1871 Census
St. Cuthbert's Edinburgh, Midlothian
23 Ponton Street [Isabella Grace was born at 36 Ponton Street]

Robert Pryde, 45, mason
Mary Pryde, 35, wife
Mary Pryde, 13, daughter
Janet Pryde, 7, daughter
George Pryde, 3, son
Jane E. Pryde, 9 months, daughter, born Edinburgh


(Thanks to Dave, I can see that the image says Jane E., so it was not mistranscribed.)


1881 Census
Galashiels, Selkirkshire
51 Wood Street [this is the address on Robert Pryde's 1883 death and cemetery records]

Robert Pryde, 55, mason
Mary Pryde, 43
George Pryde, 13, son
Jane Pryde, 10, daughter, born Edinburgh
Robina Pryde, 8, daughter

(Transcript from ScotlandsPeople.)


1891 Census
Galashiels, Selkirkshire
322 Galapark Road

Mary Pryde, head, 54
George Pryde, 23, son
Jane Pryde, 20, daughter, born Edinburgh
Alice Pryde, 9 months, granddaughter

(Transcript from Ancestry.com.)

When she was married in 1893, Isabella Grace's usual residence was Meigle Street, Galashiels and she was a darner in the wool factory.  When her mother, Mary (Muir) Pryde, died in 1900, her usual residence was 35 Meigle Street, Galashiels.

I'm certain this is the right family, although there is a bit of confusion about some children who weren't listed with them in the census.  (The confusion will likely be cleared up in future when I have some money to buy records pertaining to all of their children.  I'm not too worried about it right now; it can wait.)

Jane's age, especially in 1871, lines up perfectly with Isabella Grace's.  I am sure this is my great-grandmother. 

But why, oh why, would they have called her Jane?

Thanks for any ideas you might have!

Regards,
Josephine

If anyone has access to a listing of monumental inscriptions for Hawick, would you please look someone up for me?

My 3rd-g-grandfather George Oliver was a baker in Hawick.  According to the inventory of his goods (taken in 1851), he died 20 September 1850, so there is no official death record for him.

As far as we can tell, he doesn't seem to have written a will (we couldn't find one on ScotlandsPeople).

We have the record of banns for his marriage to Janet Brown in Edinburgh in 1823.  It does not list George's father's name (although it does list Janet's father's name).  It describes him as George Oliver, Baker, College Parish.

In the 1841 census of Hawick, he is listed as:
George Oliver, 40 [or 41?], baker, born in county

We have ruled out the George Oliver who was born in 1803 in Hawick to John Oliver and Jane(t) Fairl(e)y.

mccubbin (a Rootschatter) found four George Olivers on the LDS site who were born in Roxburgh around the right time.  I wasn't able to track them all in the census transcript but I couldn't find any obvious links.

George's widow, Janet, died 11 March 1884 in Hawick.  We have her death record.  I expect she is buried with George.

I am hoping that George Oliver's tombstone inscription might contain a clue as to where he was born or who his parents might have been.

If no one has access to this information, do you know where I might write to inquire?  I've tried searching the internet with no luck.

The LDS FHC in my city (Toronto) has told me at least three separate times (over the last few years) that it is not possible for me to order films through their office.  I was told to subscribe to ScotlandsPeople and Ancestry if I wanted actual images of parish records.

Thanks in advance for any help!
Josephine