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1957. Not Boots - Auckland's Pharmacy, address 96 Camden Road. He'd been there since 1953.

Wow!! absolutely outstanding. Thank you. Chris

Hello Chris, firstly what a fantastic project to undertake, and thank you for doing it.

I wonder if you anything about common or pauper graves in the church yard for those who couldn't afford a headstone, particularly back in the 1800s. Might there have have been burial records even if not a plot marked as a common grave?

Hi there,

There are records held within the Archives at East Dunbartonshire Council. I have not been through them, but Im sure the staff at Kirkintilloch Library will be able to assist you. Theres certainly nothing at the gravesite that has that kind of information.

Colin & Margaret had twins, Malcolm & Margaret, Straiton, 27/12/1854. Daughter, Flora McLeod, born, Straiton, 1860.

Malcolm died Coylton, age 73, 1928, Margaret died Dunlop, age 61, 1916. Flora married an Adam Hopkirk Sutherland, Straiton, 1879. Flora died, age 87, Gorbals, Glasgow, 1947. She had remarried to a John Drummond in 1886.

Thats is the right death certificate for Margaret. Thank you for all your help.

Colin Dow, was born in Skye about 1825, although I have 6 census returns and the dates range from 1821 to 1827.

In the 1851 he married Margaret Arthur or Hamilton in Straiton in Ayr She was a widow. She's born somewhere between 1815 & 1818 according to five census returns in Patna in Ayrshire.

The marriage is too early for parents details so i tried to find death certificates on SP. They are both together in the 1891 census in Main Street Straiton and in 1901 Colin has moved in with his son in nearby Coylton.

Someone on Ancestry gives Margarets date of death as 16 May 1899 in Coylton, Ayr. Also on Ancestry Colin's death is recorded as 16 Aug 1903 in Coylton, Ayr.

I have searched for both of these deaths using all sorts of permutations and I cannot find either death on SP. Im abviously doing something wrong. Can anyone assist?

Chris

Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of the articles in the Scotsman. I have found what I was looking for in respect of his prison sentence.

Thanks William. Im fairly certain he didn't die in Scotland. Theres nothing.