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Buteshire / Grave locations in Rothesay.
« on: Monday 28 October 19 13:31 GMT (UK)  »
I am hoping to locate the graves of the following ancestors in Rothesay. They were all members of the Established Church of Scotland.
Janet (m.s. Pritchard) Mack: died 26 April 1909.
Margaret Pritchard: died 20 October 1894.
Jeanie (m.s. Pritchard) Faulds: died 6 August 1951.
Any advice or help will be very much appreciated.

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Buteshire / Re: Arran
« on: Friday 23 November 18 17:40 GMT (UK)  »
There is a Facebook page: Whiting Bay Memories. Maybe if you joined you can ask about the house?

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Buteshire / Re: Pritchard & Mack
« on: Wednesday 21 November 18 21:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your reply Carole.
I do have information on Janet's baptism, and where she was in the censuses from 1841 to 1901.
She died in 1909 (in Rothesay).
The twins were indeed recorded as the daughters of Robert (her brother) and Mary Pritchard in 1881. He had taken them in and said they were his daughters. Her daughter Margaret was in the Rothesay Industrial School in 1881.
She married James Mack in Rothesay in 1890.
I am hoping to find more information on Janet's history when she was on Bute from approx 1868 until she died in 1909.
Family legend (based on the information given to my great-aunt by a genealogist in the 1960's) has it that her illegitimate daughters were fathered by John Patrick Chrichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquis of Bute.
I would like to either disprove or prove this story.

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Buteshire / Pritchard & Mack
« on: Wednesday 21 November 18 18:58 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find more information on my Great-great-grandmother Janet Pritchard.
She was born in Lanarkshire in 1836.
She arrived on Bute sometime in 1868/69 and worked as a servant in Rothesay and Kingarth, (and on Ballochmartin Farm on Cumbrae for a while in 1880/81).
She had an illegitimate daughter Margaret in 1870, and illegitimate twins Jessie and Jeanie in 1872.
She married James Mack in Rothesay on 3 March 1890. He was a widower with at least three children, named James, John and Jessie.
They lived at 104 Montague Street for several years, and also at 36 Bridge Street, where she died, on 26 April 1909.
Any snippets of information to fill in the gaps will be very much appreciated.

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Buteshire / Re: Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Wednesday 29 August 18 11:16 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Wendy for your help.
I think my last hope of getting any information is to try Old Scotland.

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Buteshire / Re: Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Tuesday 28 August 18 14:50 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Wendy.
I thought a RCE would also be noted in the birth register? And there is nothing in the registers. Is it possible that the birth certificates will have more information?

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Buteshire / Re: Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Tuesday 28 August 18 12:40 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for responses.
Will the RCE be noted on the birth entry? Or on a separate document?

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Buteshire / Re: Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Monday 27 August 18 23:37 BST (UK)  »
Yes, thanks Carole. I have that information.
And I have their marriage records and death notices. No father/s mentioned.
I am hoping (probably against all hope!!) that there is some information to be found somewhere else.
 

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Buteshire / Re: Illegitimate births in Rothesay 1870 & 1872
« on: Monday 27 August 18 22:37 BST (UK)  »
The mother Janet is working as a servant in Rothesay, and the baby Margaret is boarding with a woman in Rothesay.
I agree, there may be two fathers involved.

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