New to Scottish research!

[Abiam2]

Hello Judy,

Thanks, unfortunately since I got a computer and started this 'hobby' I can't seem to get the urge to paint!  I have tried but it just won't come.   You must keep at it - it will come!

I have loads of pics on my computer and can use them as avatars so you will see some more! 

I wonder if you can find anything in Dalrymple on Christina Morrison BMD anything.  I don't know where she was born just that she married a John Ferguson.  I have nothing more concrete.  If you look on the link you'll see what problems I'm having.  Maybe I should go back to the painting,
Cheers,
Abiam

[ankerdine]

Sorry I can't find anything of relevance in my MIs for Dalrymple.

Good luck. Someone on here is bound to help you considerably. I had an enormous amount of positive information from several rootschatters.

Judy

[ibi]

From Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 'Haddo House, the seat of the Earl of Aberdeen, 2 miles SSE of Methlick village......"

I'd hazard a guess that there was an associated village or hamlet.

Or maybe the location was a farm that was part of the 1000 acre estate.

ibi

[JAP]

This seems to have been identified as Haddo on the other thread.
The curlicue on the end of the H is a bit misleading.

But just for info, if you go to
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
and search for Methlick then scroll a couple of times to the west, Crofts of Haddo and then Haddo appear.
A search for Haddo on Streetmap also gets various hits ...

JAP

[Abiam2]

Hi,

Thank you for your thoughts.  It certainly sounds as though Haddo is the place. 

Jap this sounds like one for you!

I really am stuck and think that maybe the best thing to do would be to write out the problems I have.

John McLellan Ferguson was born 28 May 1915 (have the cert)
at Mosside Cottage, District of Kirkoswald, Ayrshire.  (About 5 miles south east of Maybole)

His parents: Joseph Morrison Ferguson (Ploughman) and Evelyn Ferguson (maiden name McLellan) Married 18 Jul 1913 at Dalrymple, Ayrshire.  (Cert)

Joseph's birth cert shows registered 13 Apr 1883 (difficult to read)  New Pitsligo Aberdeenshire.
His parents: James Ferguson (Ploughman) and Christina Ferguson (maiden name Shea)  Married 18 Mar 1893 New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.  (Cert)
Married one month before the birth.

Joseph's marriage cert shows 18 Jul 1813 Burnton, Ayrshire  (Ploughman aged 20) and Evelyn McLellan (Farm sevant aged 21).  Joseph was living at Cross House, Kilmarnock (difficult to read) and she was at Burnton Dalrymple. (Cert)

This is where the problem starts!
On the marriage cert of Joseph  and Evelyn the parents are JOHN FERGUSON and CHRISTINA FERGUSON MAIDEN NAME MORRISON  (Cert)
Are they the same people?  I cannot find a marriage for John Ferguson and Christina Morrison.

Joseph Morrison Ferguson is killed in  WW1 possibly 15 July 1917 leaving Evelyn with two children (should be three but I have not found the third)
The record I have found says he was born in Pitsligo Aberdeenshire living at Maybole Ayrshire and enlisted at Kilmarnock Ayrshire.  He was a Private in the Highland Light Infantry and his number was 4095.

I hope this is clear enough it is very difficult to sort with poor images and different names.  Can anyone help?

Something has just hit me!  Joseph's middle name of Morrison matches the name on John/James Marriage cert to Christina Shea/Morrison.    There is something going on here, but what?

Could Christina have been pregnant by a Morrison but somehow married a Ferguson?

Thank you,
Abiam

[MonicaL]

  Abiam, how certain are you about a possible brother for Joseph called George Howie Ferguson 

Monica

[Abiam2]

Hi Monica,
I am doing this for a friend and have been sent this invitation. I have tried to scan it but it is too pale to be read.
This is what it says:
 Ruby Wedding
of
Mr and Mrs Jas. Ferguson
65 Kilmarnock Road
Crosshouse
That is all on that one.

Then there is this invitation to their 65th Wedding Anniversary party:
The family of Mr and Mrs James ferguson
request the pleasure of
(Not too sure about this - very faded hand written)
Mr and Mrs John Fergusson and family's
company at the 65th Anniversary of the
marriage of their Father and Mother,
which will be held in the
Community Centre, Crosshouse,
on Friday 14th March 1958
at 7pm
An early reply will oblige
George Howie Ferguson
165 McKinlay Crescent
Irvine

I think the first was a separate 'do' and the second is 25 years later - as they married in 1893.

So George Howie Ferguson brother of Joseph?  I haven't looked for his birth yet, will do now,
Abiam

[MonicaL]

That's great Abiam!

I have found the marriage cert of George Howie Ferguson in 1917 Irvine. His parents shows as:

James Ferguson - Storeman
Christina Shea (ms)

[MonicaL]

Section from George's MC: