Can You Help a new reseacher???

[carol80]

Looking for the Family of Mary Love
Total info i Have is as follows:
Mary LOVE b New Street Beith in Co of Ayr June 3rd 1907
Robert LOVE (father) Woodcarver Married 1907 April 1st Glasgow
Mary LOVE (Mother) nee DEMPSTER
Any info much appreciated
       Carol80 in New Zealand

[carol80]

Mary Love nee Dempster had about 5 children born in Beith Is it possable for someone to look up Mary Dempster or Robert Love in the 1901 census. Are Dempster and Love Common surnames??? Where can i look.?
         Desperate Carol80 In New Zealand

[rosanne]

Hi Carol,

Try familysearch.org or freebmd.rootsweb.com or freecen.rootsweb.com to start with. These are free sites. Also ancestry.com has some free info. After that there are other sites. My research has been mostly UK so you may need to look at some sites I have not heard of yet.

Hope this helps,

rosanne

[carol80]

Thanks I'll try them all
          Carol80

[JAP]

Carol,

The 1901 census (also 1891, 1881 and now 1871) is online at the following (paying) site:
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

The site has births to 1904, marriages to 1929, and deaths to 1954.

Scottish certificates include much more information that those in England & Wales.

Your first step would be to download the marriage certificate of Robert and Mary.  It should have their ages and occupations, and the names of their parents plus occupations of their fathers and maiden names of their mothers.   

I venture to suggest that it is virtually impossible for someone overseas to research in Scotland without using ScotlandsPeople.

On the Home Page of the site there is a Free Surname Search.  It reveals that LOVE and DEMPSTER are common names.

As you are (at least at present) looking for relatively recent events, you are not likely to find much, if anything, in the IGI at:
http://www.familysearch.org/
Scottish records extracted from old church records and from the statutory registers (civil registration began in 1855 in Scotland) usually cut out at about 1875 in the IGI.

If you look at the post "LINKS: Sharing useful Scotland links" at the top of the general section of the RootsChat Scotland board, you will find a vast amount of useful information.  Ditto for the post there "Where to start with Scottish research".

There is also a Beginners Board on RootsChat.

Good luck,

JAP

[moscan]

Carol,

On the marriage Cert for Robert and Mary it lists Robert's parents as being John Love and Elizabeth Clark.  John being a Wood Turner




Mary's parents are listed as being Robert Dempster a coal miner (deceased) and Mary I think the surname is Gemmell but it's quite faint...

On the 1901 Census for Beith, I found the following:

Robert Dempster Head, aged 56 (retired Carter) Born in Ireland.

Mary Dempster Wife, aged 48 born in Beith Ayrshire

Mary Dempster Daughter aged 19 ( Cabinet Sandpaperer) born in Beith Ayrshire

William Dempster Son aged 18 ( General Labourer) Born in Beith Ayrshire

Catherine Dempster Daughter aged 15 ( Mill Worker Cabinet) Born in Beith Ayrshire

Mary Gemmell Mother in Law aged 83 widowed born in Ireland

Found the Marriage for Robert Love's parents:

John Love and Elizabeth Clark married 29 August 1870 in Stewarton in Ayr. John is listed as a Joiner and Elizabeth as a Farm Servant.

His parents are Allan Love a Hand Loom Weaver and Isabella Love nee Campbell.

Her parents are Colin Clark labourer and Catherine Clark nee McMillian


Will look for the 'Loves' in the 1901 and come back to you

Best wishes

Mo

[moscan]

Found John Love in the 1901 Census: Kings Road Beith Ayr

John Love Head aged 54 (Cabinet Makers Labourer) Born in Beith in Ayr

Lizzie Love Wife aged 57 born in Stewarton Ayr

Robert Love Son aged 24 (wood carver) born in Beith Ayr

James Love Son aged 21 (Upholsterer) born in Beith Ayr

Malcolm Love Son aged 19 (Painter) born in Beith Ayr

Agnes Love Neice aged 18 (Mill Worker) born in Stewarton Ayr.

Best Wishes

Mo

[carol80]

thank-you thank-you. You won't believe this but it's true. My mother-in-law (Mary Biddiss nee Love b 1907)passed  away 5 yrs ago today and today i find her family.
         Once again thank-you from the bottom of our hearts.
                Carol80 in New Zealand

[moscan]

have more for you

here is the marriage of the Dempsters,

Robert Dempster aged 44 son of Hugh Dempster and jane nee Conway (Carter) and also it was his second marriage listed as widower

Mary Gemmell aged 36 daughter of John Gemmell and Mary nee Young (a Silk Sewer)

On june 3rd 1881 in Beith in Ayr

Glad to have been on help


Best wishes

Mo