Whiteheads of Duns

[yaris1960]

I have just learnt that I have an ancestors hailing from Duns, Berwickshire, by the name of William Whitehead 1799 and his father George Whithead.

A recent check on the IGI threw up a number of different Whitehead familys in Duns between 1727 and 1856. I am keen to put them in some kind of order. I f any one out there has a connection  with  or William Whitehead or George Whithead I would love to hear from you

Steve

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1841 Scotland Mertoun berwickshire Parish Number 751 page 14

Address Third

William Whitehead age 40 born Berwickshire
Elen age 40 born England
Elizabeth age 11 England
William age 9 Berwickshire
Thomas age 7 Berwickshire
George age 3 Berwickshire



1851 H0107/2421 folio 403 page 26 Berwick upon Tweed Northumberland

James  Whitehead age 53 born Biford Northumberland
Sarah age 48 Norham Northumberland
Elizabeth Whitehead age 12 born  dau Berwickshire Scotland


1851 H0107/1523 folio 291 page 3 St Luke Old Street St Luke Middlesex

William age 51 born Scotland
Mary age 47 born Tweed Berwickshire
John age 16 St Bololph Middlesex
Jane age 8 Alll hallows Middlesex
William age 6 St Lukes Middlesex

Pam

[Beckey]

Hi Yaris,

1841 Duns ED4 Page 13. New Town St.

Whitehead  George  M  75  Shoe maker    Bew.
Whitehead  Alison   F  75                           Bew.
Whitehead  George  M  35  Cutter Journyman  Bew.


If you know of other children of George, bar William, have 1841 and 1851 census for Duns.

Have just found this if of any use.

Mertoun Parish M.I. (pre 1855 done by David Cargill in 1969).

No.52  By William Whitehead tenant third son Thomas in America 23.6.1857 23 yrs.  William Whitehead 17.7.1878  78 yrs. wife Elener Henderson 6.4.1887 86 yrs.

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Hi Yaris,
I also have a William Whitehead  in my tree, he was a shoemaker from Duns. Fathers name was George, mothers name Alison.  He married a Maysie(Mary) McPherson. First child(my 3xgrt grandmother) was born Berwick on Tweed. They moved to London and had several other children.
Sound familar?
Maxine

[yaris1960]

Hi Maxine

Its does sound famliar and its because its me,  cousin Steve from GenesReunited. We seem to be following each other around a  bit . You came up as a match on GenesCircles as well. Thank you for the press cutting on Isabella. 

Many thanks

 Steve

[whiteheadm]

I'm looking for a William Whitehead born about 1800 (perhaps 1799) in Berwickshire Scotland, and his wife Ellen or Hellen.  He emigrated to Blenheim, Ontario, Canada but probably traveled through the US because his oldest child John was born in the US. The remaining children were born in Ontario, Canada.

They had 8 children: John, James, William, David, Jenet, Anthony, Jannet, and David.

[Neil_from_Duns]

I was brought up in Duns as was my mother, father, 3 grandparents
and probably 5 of my great-grandparents

I am descended from John Whitehead (born 1797 in Dunse) whose parents were George Whitehead shoemaker (born 1766  and died 1846) and
Alison Brown (died 1843.

(I now have George's father thanks to this thread!)

 He had the following siblings
George Whitehead born 1790 died 1791
Sarah Whitehead born 1792 died 1797
George Whitehead born 1793 died 1797
John Whitehead born 1795 died 1797
John Whitehead born 1797 - my ancestor
William Whitehead born 1799
George Whitehead 1801 (+ added later died 1839
Robert Whitehead 1804



This information is from a hand-written document which I suspect was orignally written by John Whitehead (not sure though!) The later entries are in a different hand with the last entries showing 1846 as George Whitehead's death.

I have just been given the following documents by my mother however they have come from my paternal grandmother  -(Margaret Fortune Whitehead
who married another Whitehead (just to confuse research!). I remember seeing these documents in my teens in the 1960s but have only been given them for safe-keeping and had time to look at them
properly now.

The documents are all original! and are a real find  and fairly delicate so I plan to scan them to as high a resolution as possible (once!)and then do
the research from the scans to ensure they survive.

I have the following

Hand-written document as above
Discharge papers for John Whitehead from Royal Artillery in 1814
Indenture papers dated 1850 for John's son James (born 1839) as a plasterer
Indenture papers for George Whitehead (born 1801) as a Cutler
Indenture papers for Robert Whitehead (born 1804) as a Shoemaker

John Whitehead was a shoemaker but also a fairly prolific poet and had poems published in the local paper. I have his original hand-written notebook of his poems, the published poems from the local paper pasted into a Greek Grammar book and also a copy of a book containing some of his poems (page 131)
(soft-copy of it in various formats including PDF is here
http://www.archive.org/details/minstrelsyofmers00croc   )

There are also several letters from local people in the 1820s addressed to John Whitehead and a notebook titled as  John Whiteheads which contains accounts, practice entries for births etc.

I plan to eventually scan these documents - is anyone following this entry interested?

[whiteheadm]

I'm interested in your research. We may share some ancestors. Please contact me off list via whiteheadm at acm dot org.

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Hi,
My 4 x grt grandfather was William Whitehead born 1799, Duns. William was a shoemaker who moved to Berwick upon Tweed then to London.  My 3x Grt gran was Margaret Whitehead born 1823, Berwick upon Tweed.
How fantastic (and lucky) to have so many reminders of your John Whitehead.