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Hi Susan

Thank you for pointing out my silly mistake. The John Macey in question was christened in 1755, not 1855.

I got most of my information during a visit to Kent a couple of years ago labouring through microfiche records. The marriage record for St Leonard's Church Deal, 12 July 1783, gives the groom's name as John Meesey, but I am confident I have the right family. Over the next 70 years the name varies through Meesey/Masey/Macey/Mercer and eventually one branch of the family living in Deal settles on the form Macey, while another living in Walmer settles on Mercer.

While I don't think I can ever be 100% certain that this John Meecey is the same John Macey christened in Wye 1755, I used a process of elimination (infant deaths, alternative marriages etc) to rule out other candidates.

There is a sizeable clutch of Maceys living in and around Wye and Crundale in the eighteenth century, whereas they don't seem to feature in the Deal area before the 1783 marriage.

I've never been able to get any further on Sarah Bing's line and I'm just curious to know more about her. There is another possible lead in that the witnesses to John and Sarah's 1783 marriage were Jas Scruton and Mary Allen. There is a record on Family Search for a marriage at St Leonard's in 1785 between Joseph Bing and Mary Allen - he may be Sarah's brother.

Regards

Betty



 



 

Hi Hume

Thank you for taking the trouble. I hadn't looked at the testaments so that was quite interesting. However it names Duncan's widow as Mary McCallum and states clearly that there were no children of the marriage. I think this couple may have been the Duncan McKinnish and Mary McCallum who married in Bute in 1794. He was a widower from Glasgow Barony (possibly a weaver as Barony was known for textiles?) so may have been getting on by then.

I also found a John McInnes born c 1803 at Kames according to the 1871 census. His death was reported in Greenock in 1873 by his son Dugald but his parents names are both omitted from the certificate, so I drew another blank there.

And another possible lead was a Peter McInnes born c 1803 at Kilbride. He was a weaver/power loom dresser and died in 1878 in Kirkintilloch, having seemingly been fairly itinerant, living in Glasgow and Paisley. His parents were Alexander McInnes (occupation looks like Gardener Journeyman) and Janet McIntyre.

The picture I'm getting is that while there were McInneses living in and around Bute at the time of Hector's birth, they probably weren't local to the area and not settled there.

The search goes on...

Many thanks again for looking.

mcmacey

Hello again Sancti.

I have looked at a few but it gets so expensive to trawl through all of them.
The marriages I have discounted are

1926 to Robert Scott
1927 to James Goodall
1930 to John Cuthel
1933 to John O'Brien

By way of more information, Annie was born on 8 March 1909 and her name is given as Annie, no middle name.

 I was hoping someone reading this might be able to make a connection between Glasgow and Letchworth. I visited an auntie Ann or aunt Annie there in 1959, when I was 5!


Thanks.

I am looking for the information about the marriage or death of Annie Hogg, born in Glasgow about 1909. According to the 1911 Census she was living in Hutchesontown (Govan) with her parents Robert Hogg (1870-1938) and Maggie Thompson (1872-1916). She was my grandmother's half-sibling.

I think she married and went to live in Letchworth, Herts, but I don't know her spouse's name or the date of the marriage.

Any help would be much appreciated.