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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 03 July 24 16:49 BST (UK) »
Peter Smeaton, mother's maiden surname McCallum, died in Falkirk in 1920 aged 76
Peter Smitton, mother's maiden surname not in index, died in Auchterarder in 1921 aged 76.

You can view both of those deaths at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk for a fraction of the cost of getting one English certificate. They will tell you the full names of their parents including both mothers' maiden surnames, and the names of any wives they had.
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 05 July 24 19:40 BST (UK) »


Hi Audrey 63,
                   I often have a look at the forum and fortunately I found your post.
I really would love to know what information you have. I haven't researched for a while always meaning to get back into it.

Jessie

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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 06 July 24 14:41 BST (UK) »
Hi Jessie,
Peter Smitton/Smeaton is not a close relative in one of my trees but he was one of these puzzles that I have always left and gone back to months or years later!

He was I guess working for the Rio Tinto mines in Corrales, Huelva, Spain where there was a huge population of workers from UK and where he must have been working when he first married in Gibraltar.  Quite interesting reading if you Google it.   I do not have a death for him, I'm still looking for that, but he died before 1947 as his second wife was listed as a widow when she died.  I have a feeling that he died abroad but will continue the search.  (He is not the Peter Smeaton who dies in Falkirk with mothers maiden name McCallum as he was the son of David & Grace McCallum - I have that death certificate!)

I am attaching information from my Peters tree (I hope it shows up okay, if not let me know) and will then send information for his children from his first marriage as I've been able to track most of that, but will do that another day.  I would have thought he would have had more children with his second wife but so far have not found any.

Hope this will allow you to update your tree a little and as I say I will add further information on his children in the next few days.

Audrey
Drummond, Ferguson, Hepburn, Carstairs, Ford, Edmonstone, Eadie, Owler or Wooler, Deuchars, McIsaac, Anderson, Panton, Smeaton or Smitton

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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 06 July 24 14:44 BST (UK) »
Also the Peter Smitton that died 1921 in Auchterarder is the son of William and Janet Faichney!
Drummond, Ferguson, Hepburn, Carstairs, Ford, Edmonstone, Eadie, Owler or Wooler, Deuchars, McIsaac, Anderson, Panton, Smeaton or Smitton


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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 11 July 24 13:13 BST (UK) »
 Hi Audrey 63,
                    Apologies I haven't on line I have had friends staying.
Thank you so much for the information on Peter Smeaton/Smitton  I do have the certs of the other Peters as well as Matthew Smeaton and Mary Callum's death certs.
I'm of to google and read the link you have mentioned.

Regards,

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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #23 on: Friday 12 July 24 15:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Jessie 46,

No worries.  I have death certificate of Matthew but not his wife Margaret.  Is it possible that you could let me have a copy of that?  I was pretty sure from Scotland's People that I had the correct one.

On the list of Peter and Elizabeth's children I omitted their son Thomas (who married back in Spain and I surmising died here too although not had much luck finding him after 1920)  I have attached the list here with their children's details such as I have.  I've just transferred this file from my old laptop so hope you are able to access it, if not let me know.

I'm still pretty certain that he had at least one child with his second wife but nothing to prove it at the moment. 

Just wishing I could find Peter's death!

Anyway I hope you are having a quieter time after your visitors.

Audrey
Drummond, Ferguson, Hepburn, Carstairs, Ford, Edmonstone, Eadie, Owler or Wooler, Deuchars, McIsaac, Anderson, Panton, Smeaton or Smitton

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Re: Peter Smitton/Smeaton help me find more about him ?
« Reply #24 on: Friday 12 July 24 18:30 BST (UK) »


Hi Audrey ,
                 Yes all gone and everything back in place nice to see them but good to get house back in order again.

If you pm me your email address I will send you Margaret's death certificate.

Jessie