Hi again
Looking through my notes, I see I have wondered if Robert LATTA (m Hannah COYLE) is part of, somehow : Branch 12.
The evidence is only circumstantial :
In 1855 in Rutherglen, a William LATTA b c 1829/1831 Co. Tyrone married an Agnes RANKINE. This William's parents were Robert LATTA and Rebecca McLARAE (or McRAE). One of the Witness' to the 1855 marriage was: John LATTA, Coal Miner. I can't find that William ever had a brother named John, only that he probably had a brother named Robert and a sister name Catherine (their father Robert died, and mother Rebecca remarried).
NOTES:
One Census states William's pob as Tyrone, Ireland. His marriage states Donag-hadee, Ireland. There is a Donaghadee in Co. Down - but it is probably Donaghedy in Co. Tyrone which is where a lot of LATTA's came from, principally identifed from Branch #12. It helps that on both occasions where his pob is stated, William himself was the source of the information.
It is not proved, but a witness to William's 1855 marriage, is John LATTA who may be the son b abt 1835 of Robert LATTA and Hannah COYLE. The witness did not sign his own name on the record - all names have been written by the registering officer (ie can't compare witness signature to a known signature of John LATTA b 1835).However, all indications are that there were no other John LATTA's in Rutherglen at the time who could have been the witness. The question remains: What was the witness John LATTA's relationship to William - brother? a cousin? half-brother?
Cheers
AMBLY
