Archibald Andrew Rennie

[mjmcara]

Archibald Andrew Rennie b1855 Scotland. 1891 census he is serving with Battalion Armourer Sergeant. Wife Mary b1857 and children are living in Farnborough, Hants. 
1901 census has them living in Kent he is now at the Royal Arsenal the children are Margret b1883 Dover, Kent, Georgina b1890 Aldershot, Hants, Maud Violet b1892 Chatham, Kent, Archibald b1894 Malta. In 1912 the son  lived 19 Sladedale Road Plumstead.
Sergeant Andrew Rennie in walking out dress 93 Sutherland Highlanders circa 1850-1852 from a contemporary painting. Artist unknown.   
http://www.frontline-figures.com/history/93high.html
Can anyone help with this family? Are the two sergeants related, does anyone know anything of the families?

[sancti]

There is only one birth on SP for 1855

1855 RENNIE ARCHIBALD Male born  NEWINGTON AND GRANGE EDINBURGH CITY/MIDLOTHIAN


The family are still living there in the 1861 census

Father is William occ. Butcher
Mother is Catherine

[mjmcara]

Sancti thank you. Now I'm going to try and get the birth certificate for one of the children Maude Violet. From that i hope to get Maudes mother's maiden name. Then I hope to get the marriage certificate of Archibald and wife Mary and both the fathers names. Thank you for taking an intersest in this matter

[sancti]

If the above Archibald is the right one then it looks like he married locally

1882 RENNIE ARCHIBALD married RITCHIE MARY ANN at NEWINGTON EDINBURGH CITY/MIDLOTHIAN

How confident are you that he was born in 1855? There are some births for 1856 on SP

[mjmcara]

Sancti, I have him on two census. 1891 he is 36 serving with his battalion. 1901 he is living with his family and is 46.

[MonicaL]

The marriage may not be the right one Sancti. This Archilbald and and Mary A R Rennie look to be in West Lothian for the 1891 census.

Monica 

[MonicaL]

I'm sure you have seen this old post in your searches for the family, but posting just in case.....

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LONDON/2000-02/0949530767

Monica

[mjmcara]

Monica, thank you. I did make contact with the writer and it is the same family. We have had some missed emails. But seem to have caught up to each other now.

[MonicaL]

Always a pity when that happens 

Reading through some of the other posts by that person, it would seem one of the sisters (Margaret/Maud?) went on to become a nun. What that tells us, if that was correct, is that family was likely to have been Roman Catholic (?). I say that only because if Archibald Andrew was born in 1854 rather than 1855, you will not find his birth on the Old Parish Records in Scotland as these are for the Established Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) records. As I am sure you know, official registration only began in Scotland from 1855, so Archibald may have missed the start (hopefully not!).

I think your current thinking is the way to go. Start with what you know, the births of one of the children. From that, look for the marriage (hopefully it wasn't abroad  with Archibald posted abroad as he was when Archibald son was born in Malta) and from there, with confirmation of fathers' names, work back....

Let us know how you get on 

Monica