Hi,
I've been investigating one of my ancestors who has been a problem tracing. She is Agnes, the wife of my great-great-uncle Walter Lockie, born in Canada in about 1855 so I have no birth or baptism record for her.
Her father, William Hogg, b. 1821 in Selkirk, joined the 54th Regiment of Foot, and was sent to Canada with his regiment. Whilst there he married a Margaret Macdonald, born in Canada in about 1833, and they had a child there (my great-great-aunt Agnes).
The regiment moved from Canada to Gibraltar in 1855 very soon after her birth. Then Margaret came to Selkirk (maybe while William went to Gibraltar) where their first son, William, was born in 1857 (William snr wasn't present - he was probably still with his regiment). Then the regiment returned to England, to the garrison town of Colchester, where 3 more children (Thomas, Rebecca, and Walter) were born between 1862 and 1866.
Then finally, the family returned to Selkirk on William's retirement from the Army, and I see them for the first time on the 1871 census. Margaret died in 1901, and William in 1910. The family don't appear on the 1861 census either in Selkirk or Colchester.
William Hogg was the son of Thomas Hogg, b. 1779, and Agnes Angus, b. 1782, Selkirk.
I'd like to find the birth or baptism of Agnes and it's proving a problem.
Some very helpful Canadian researchers on rootschat have probably found the marriage of William and Margaret in Quebec in April 1853, but no-one has yet found any record of Agnes.
One possibility is that whilst she wasn't registered in Scotland, she might have been baptised after 1855 in Selkirk. I have accounts on SP and Ancestry but haven't been able to find post-1855 baptisms anywhere.
Can anyone please advise me where to find post-1855 baptisms for Selkirk?
Or, and this would be wonderful, does anyone have any more information on Agnes Hogg, b. ABT 1855 in Canada, m. (1) Walter Lockie in Selkirk 1878, m. (2) Hugh Donoughie in Selkirk 1902.
Regards, Chaltis