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Scotland / Re: Illegitimacy and fathers name
« on: Thursday 08 September 22 01:27 BST (UK)  »
I've found fathers' details in Sherrif Court paternity decrees, in Ayrshire; and also in Ayrshire, fathers' details in Catholic baptisms. The births were registered under the mothers' maiden names.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death cert medical terms
« on: Wednesday 24 August 22 07:25 BST (UK)  »
Foxglove was used as a treatment for dropsy by herbalists, for centuries. In 1775 an English doctor called William Withering studied the plant, and identified digitalis as the active ingredient.

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Scotland / Re: Scotland's People - Service Returns Death Cert.
« on: Tuesday 10 May 22 06:21 BST (UK)  »
I was able to pinpoint a relation whose death was notified in a Service Return, by finding his dependants in the UK Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, on Ancestry.

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Offaly (Kings) / Re: Bryan Bernard BLACK b Tullamore 20 Sep 1912 - parents ?
« on: Saturday 05 March 22 03:51 GMT (UK)  »
Born in Tullamore district, Kings County.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Apparently missing death records
« on: Sunday 12 December 21 01:41 GMT (UK)  »
A wildcard search can be done in Family Search, on the BDM online index.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: How does one catch gonorrhoea?
« on: Friday 11 June 21 01:43 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Rena on Wednesday 09 June 21 19:21 BST (UK)
My OH was in the forces and it was common knowkledge that only "Other Ranks" caught Venereal Disease from the opposite sex.   Officers caught it from toilet seats.
My father was in the Navy during the war - he was told that only Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of Canterbury were allowed to catch VD from a toilet seat.

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Ayrshire / Re: Whatever happened to Matthew MORTON?
« on: Monday 10 May 21 20:59 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your suggestions, Scotmum. The Mitchell records look interesting, it's a pity they aren't online.

John

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Ayrshire / Whatever happened to Matthew MORTON?
« on: Monday 10 May 21 09:12 BST (UK)  »
Matthew was born at Auchinleck, Ayrshire, to James MORTON and Margaret RICHMONT, in 1831.

In the 1861 census Matthew is a police constable at Girvan, Ayrshire, boarding with Eliza MARDOCK.

In 1862 Matthew MORTON, police constable of Ballantrae, had a paternity order awarded against him by the Sheriff Court at Ayr. The case was taken by Jane AITKEN of Catrine, with regard to her son Alexander AITKEN (born 2nd July 1861 at Sorn).

I have not been able to find Matthew MORTON in any records after this. Note - he is not the Matthew MORTON - mother's maiden name RICHMOND - who died at Galston in 1868.

Jane AITKEN went on to marry my great granduncle Thomas FARRELL at Kilmarnock in 1866.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Air passenger lists?
« on: Tuesday 09 March 21 04:16 GMT (UK)  »
I have seen some air passenger lists for New Zealand on Family Search.

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