My best friend's granpa

[Jessie 46]

Hi,
   I am hoping someone can help me find my friends granpa on 1911 census she has worked hard oh her family tree

and has a loads of information on him  she has a special birthday coming up and I would like to be able to give her the information on that day as a thank you for all the help she has given to so many friends in our research.

He was Samuel Gordon born in 1893 at the Glaick Farm Leswalt Wigtownshire son of Thomas Gordon and Agnes Paterson
he was a ploughman when he married Annie Watson in 1913 at Kilbreen Farm Stoneykirk, She has where he was in 1915
from the valuation rolls and his work record until he retired in 1958 and his death in Stranraer in 1964.

Please can you help me find him

Cheers

Jessie

[terianne]

Have you tried ScotlandsPeople - you can buy 30 credit for £7.00

you should be able to get his birth and marriage certs but not his death cert yet unless you order it for about £10.00 for a copy.

you seem to have a lot of info so you should be able to location him quite easily.

also you will be able to locate him in the 1901, 1911 census' as you know the area.
 

[Jessie 46]

Hi terianne,
                Yes  she has a lot of information  he  ended up working as a forester on Lord Stairs estate at Castle Kennedy near Stranraer  -- has him on 1901 census in Leswalt and all the information on his family back until they came over from Ireland c 1840

all certs . and a lot more but for some reason we just c an't find him on 1911 census.

I thought maybe someone else have a look might be able to find him and I would be able to surprise her as a thank you

for all the help she has given me and a lot of our friends in research.

Cheers,
Jessie

[sancti]

He might be listed under the name Samuel GORDAN aged 18 at Kirkcolm, Wigtownshire in 1911

[Jessie 46]

Hi Sancti,
              Thank you for that must be him as Kirkcolm is only a few miles from Leswalt.

Many thanks indeed.

Jessie

[Jessie 46]

Hi again sancti,
                         Yes it is him thank you so very much I had a look on SP my friend is going to be over the moon on her special

day on Tuesday . She has been trying to find him for ages . A million  thanks.

Cheers

Jessie