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Messages - suzette stratton

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Monday 15 November 21 11:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you.  That was how I read it and Grantown would fit in with his son, Robert's, birth place; Tailor fits with his stated occupation on son Robert's 1868 marriage Certificate. 

According to ScotlandsPeople, Robert Stuart and Ann McDonald had a daughter Jessie Fordice who I have traced to Australia.  I have also found an Australian death record for an Alexander Stuart, whose daughter was Jessie Fordice.  That makes identifying Jessie Fordice's father very tricky - Robert or Alexander.  Robert and Jessie did have a brother called Alexander - so maybe he went to Australia and they attributed him to Jessie when he died.  I must check out that line of thought. 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Sunday 14 November 21 14:07 GMT (UK)  »
Please can someone help me decypher the attached marriage record which I downloaded from Scotlandspeople.  The couple I am interested in is Stuart/McDonald.
Thank you.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Wednesday 03 November 21 10:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Tuesday 02 November 21 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
The 1950 death date for Ann E Stuart would have been a typo!  Does anyone know anything of the Stirling Public Hall Company Ltd.  Might they have owned The Golden Lion Hotel?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Tuesday 02 November 21 10:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Bbart for that article.  Interesting - In about 1885 Robert and Ann E Stuart left The Golden Lion in Stirling for The Great Northern Hotel in St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln - not Charing Cross.  Ann E was widowed in 1890.  She carried on running The Great Northern Hotel in Lincoln until about 1910.  The 1911 census shows she has moved to Worthing and is living with a spinster daughter.  She died in 1915 and is buried in Lincoln.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Monday 01 November 21 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for all your very helpful suggestions. I am new to this game so very inexperienced. 

I agree with you about the Tailor connection and feel our Robert is probably the one born 1794 in Aberlour.

Our Jessie was having children in the 1850s/60s so could not be the one born 1795.  Where do you think this Jessie fits in?  I would love to find out more about William.  And of course, who married Robert Alexander of Raigmore? 

The connection with Jessie Fordyice is via a DNA match between my husband, grandson of Francis Stuart, and the Hammond family tree in Australia.  We also know that Francis' brother John, was sent to Australia and I have found a death record for him in Ballarat - same place where Jessie died, although she died long before he got there.  She had a son called William about the same age as this John.


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Monday 01 November 21 12:28 GMT (UK)  »
Yes - the marriage details on Francis' Baptism Certificate are of the 1868 London marriage.

Jessie Fordyce baptism:  Born 28 Aug 1826, baptised 7 Sep 1826 - Cromdale etc.  FHL No 990724.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Friday 29 October 21 17:06 BST (UK)  »
Hello Monica

Apologies for troubling you again.  On Francis Stuart's Baptism Certificate, Robert is referred to as Hotel Proprietor.  In this context does Proprietor simply mean Manager as he is referred to as Tennant on the Valuation Rolls.
Suzette


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuart Fordyce connection
« on: Friday 29 October 21 16:31 BST (UK)  »
Hello Monica

Just to confirm. I have definitely identified Francis's parents  via his Baptism Certificate which gives date and place of their marriage.

Thank you very much.  I really appreciate your response.
Suzette :)

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