Christopher Myers

[Gadget]

Hi Mal

I'll PM you with my e-mail and you could send me a scan which I could extract for you and put up 

Gadget

[MalGordon]

I have found the wedding of Margaret and William Rhynd and have downloaded the page of the register which shows Williams as a Laborer. The Rhind you found in Leeds I do not think are the same ones. There were two births in Edinburgh, one in 1865 (Jane Murray) and one in 1863 (William Myers) which lean me towards these being the grandchildren of Christopher. Still can't find much information on Christopher but am certainly building a nice data base.

Cheers from Oz,

Malcolm(Gordon)

[Gadget]

Hi Malcolm

I opened what was labelled Christopher but it was the census ready reckoner file

Gadget

[Gadget]

Hi Mal

I've now got the correct file. Here is the 'informant column'. It looks like John Rhind to me.

Gadget

[MalGordon]

Hi Gadget,

I think the same as you. Looks like another name change. The Y has become an I, and I guess we would have to realise that the literacy factor was a lot lower in those days. Do you have any idea where that address is? But all in all it looks like another brick in the wall. Well done and thank you for your time and trouble.

Cheers from Oz,


Gordon

[Gadget]

Hi Mal

It's definitely Hillhousefield. I've been having a look and this is what it says on Genuki:

North Leith originally belonged to the parish of Holyroodhouse, from which it was disjoined and erected into a separate parish in 1606. It then comprehended only the village of North Leith, and teh coal hill, which are part of the barony of Broughton, but in the year 1630 the barionies of Newhaven, and Hillhouse-field, which belonged to the parish of St Cuthberts or West Kirk, were annexed to it.

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/MLN/NorthLeith/index.html

I'll check the Gillon's Lodge bit!

Gadget 

[Gadget]

In 1861 they were living at Hillhousefield Lodge 

Gadget

[Gadget]

I'm wondering if it might be Gillies Lodge - as in Ghillie(s) - rather than Gillons

Gadget

[MalGordon]

I have found a John Myers and Alexander Myers, children of Alexander Myers and Margaret Crighton.  They were born in Dun, Angus 1n 1776 and 1787. John married Diana Cooper and it looks like they lived Montrose.  I can't find a connection to Christopher, but then I can't find any birth records for him. The timeline certainly fits and the names recur regularly down the lineage. Any help would be greatly appreciated.