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Kincardineshire / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Friday 10 March 17 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Yes Peter Gordon is a distant relative to the family as Ann Forbes (Thow) mother Jean Thow is a cousin to Peters Father .Incidently there is a ton of info on the Gordons of Crathie. Peters parents are Peter Gordon and Margaret Riach (or Reoch).
Mary Forbes and George Tough are my Great Great Grandparents .There son George Tough 1862  married Bathia Bannerman they moved to BC ,Canada and had my Grampa William Rettie Tough
The James/Ann Gordon dilemma  may be the situation where Peter the father only wanted to acknowledge one instead of paying for two , thats a theory someone mentioned ,but we still have missing information. Or he died after the baptism ?.
It has been years into this mystery but I won't quit until I find the paperwork .what do you think of the theory of David Forbes going to South Africa ?

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Kincardineshire / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Thursday 09 March 17 01:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hello .
Ok here's what I do know
Ann Forbes is the only one listed in Charleston Aboyne in 1855 valuation records so John must have died between 1851 and 1855 .
Ann Forbes later dies in 1864
The daughter Ann Forbes married John Walker from Lumphanan parish in 1868 .but dies in 1869
I am thinking possibly Ann Gordon either died early or immigrated somewhere?.
The James Gordon /Ann Gordon mystery might be twins but have no clue .
Peter Gordon the father ended up in Bancory Ternan marrying Christina Brodie and had 3 sons then died in 1894.
Lingering questions :
Where did John Forbes 1826 (Anne older brother)
What happened to Ann Gordon
Who's parents are John Forbes 1853
What became of David Forbes .
This family is one brick wall after another

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Kincardineshire / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Tuesday 07 March 17 22:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi ,  well this family must have done something which I can not figure out ,I will explain .....Firstly , I. have those same census records ,in 1871 I did find John Forbes about 18 working in Skene who was born in Banchory Ternan after that there is no trace .  He very well could be Davids son , but for the life of me I cant find a birth record for him .  Now here is where it gets complicated , Mary Forbes had a illegitimate child in April 1853 ,.baptized as James Gordon  .
But in 1861 and 1871 there is suddenly a Ann Gordon  as her child ,then no trace of Ann , I thought for a while possibly Mary and Ann gor pregnant by the same man Peter Gordon but he only choose to acknowledge one child .
I really don't know..........I am open to theories 😀

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Wednesday 10 August 16 23:47 BST (UK)  »
   Hello ,
 I have re-read this whole chat and would love to know if anyone has linked my John Bannerman  1770 ? Fraserburgh  to any of the other Bannermans born around that area of Fraserburgh  between 1765 -1785 ?? . 
      John married Elizabeth Robb in 1792 and  from what I have found in a Rathen  cemetary , John ,Elizabeth and their son James B 1806  all died within 2 years  between 1823 and 1825 ,  but  can not find any death information on any of this to prove it .   

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Kincardineshire / Re: Birth look up please
« on: Wednesday 10 August 16 19:46 BST (UK)  »
   Hello Annie
     Johns grandparents were Ann Thow  , born 1799 Angus , and John Forbes 1799 Glentannar , but he died sometime between 1851 and 1859 ,( haven't found his death certificate yet ,but thats another brickwall )   
        In 1861 the widow Ann Forbes  was living in Charleston ,Aboyne  with her daughter  Ann born in Birse 1828 ,  and the Grandson John who is 8 years born in 1853 ,  ,  John listed as being born in Banchory Ternan  , Kincardineshire,.
        I have looked for him on Scotlands People , with no luck . If he was an illigitimate son would there not be a church record ?
         

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Kincardineshire / Birth look up please
« on: Wednesday 10 August 16 01:32 BST (UK)  »
 John Forbes  born in Banchory Ternan , Kincardine , 1853 . He is 8  years old in 1861 living with Ann Forbes as grand son , I have looked in Scotlands pjeople but can not find proof of who his father is or if in fact if his mother is the daughter Ann Forbes ( Same name as her mother ) . He is listed in 1871 as working in Skeene , parish . I can not find anything on his birth and would like a little help . 
                                                                                                       Thank you     Melanie

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