William Sutherland

[firthview]

I am helping a friend to look for the first marriage of William Sutherland born 3/04/1879 Latheron ,caithness his father was Donald Sutherland.He was a Minister in Glasgow on the 1911 census and married a Euphemia mcghee in 1916 but it said he was a widow.Does anyone know where he would have trained for the ministry and any help would be great ,thank you in advance.

[Skoosh]

It would depend on which church he belonged to. Trinity College in Glasgow turned out Free Church ministers. The "Fasti" of the Church of Scotland has the details of their ministers. You might get this online?

Skoosh.

[MonicaL]

Bit of luck  William Sutherland's obituary from the Glasgow Herald:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19290723&id=lfBYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2823,3286770

Monica

Added: Booo  Not so lucky! Very close, but 10 years too young and showing as unmarried. Just very similar background though.

[MonicaL]

OK, trying again...

Another obituary from the same source. Also a William Sutherland, Minister from Caithness, who died in 1937. Mention of a wife and 3 children.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19371102&id=Fz5AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=b1kMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3141,246919

Do you have a death date for the William Sutherland you are researching? If so, have you viewed his death cert?

Monica

[ev]

Another post with the same subject -

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,612245.0.html

ev

[MonicaL]

Thanks Ev  I thought I was dreaming as I had seen the other post, but thought it would come under firthview's which I then couldn't find.

As Anne mentions on the other post, the first stop for now to try and find a marriage entry for William Sutherland's first marriage would be his death cert which we now know was in 1937 in Glasgow City (there is a corresponding entry on SP I think for this).

Monica

[45woodhouse]

Thanks VERY MUCH everyone, particularly Monica L for finding the newspaper obit.  - hopefully now I can find the death on SP, and perhaps his first wife through that. Thanks also very much to FIRTHVIEW, my friend, for putting this into the Caithness section; I'm very 'green' to rootschat, and don't really know what I'm doing eg someone pointed out elsewhere in rootschat that the 1911 census said he was a United Reform minister, when I thought it had said free church - I'm clearly hopeless at deciphering the old writing too!!
Anyway, thanks very much to all you genealogical supersleuths out there, I really appreciate the help

[firthview]

Thank you all i found the death cert with your help as there are a million sutherlands,his death cert gave me his first wife ( susan anderson grant ) they married in 1906 and she died in 1908  thank you so much.

[MonicaL]

Thank you both for the update  Always makes a big difference when we hear the outcome of searches and recommendations!

45woodhouse, I wish you best of luck with your searches on the Sutherlands

Monica