Hi everyone, I am relatively new to genealogy and have recently hit a snag during my search for my great-great-grandmother, Margaret Helen(a) Mitton nee Sang, who was born in Scotland. The issue I am running into is that I cannot find a record of Margaret’s birth or death. If possible, I was just hoping for some guidance as to where I should look next, whether it be websites to look at or record collections to search
I'll try to provide as much information as I can, while trying to avoid making this too long.
Here is the information I started with when I began my search on Margaret, from a notebook my grandfather (Margaret’s grandson left):
- She was born in Scotland (perhaps in Leith)
- She attended Dr. Bell’s School in Leith, Scotland
- Her parents were Alexander and Alison Sang
- Her siblings were:
o Andrew
o James
o Robert
o Elizabeth
o Isabelle
o Alison
- She liked to be called Helen
- She married Jasper Steel Mitton in New Brunswick, Canada and resided there until her death in a Halifax hospital (date unknown but sometime between 1914 and 1917 as Jasper remarried in 1917)
On FamilySearch I found her marriage certificate for her wedding to Jasper in New Brunswick, Canada (1907). Also listed are her parent’s names (Alexander Sang and Alison Greive Thompson), place of birth (Anstruther Easter), and age (22, so she was probably born around 1885/1886). I have also found her record of departure from Glasgow bound for Halifax (March 1907) and her arrival in Halifax (April 1907), but so far that’s it.
The 1881 England, Wales and Scotland Census lists all the names I have for Margaret’s siblings, and mother, who is listed as a widow (this is where I had doubts as to whether I was looking at the right family, otherwise this means Alexander can’t be Margaret’s father if she was born in 1885/86). I also began researching family trees on Ancestry, hoping to see Margaret pop up somewhere, but not once does she make an appearance. Other census and BMD websites bring up no results.
Any suggestions for what to try next would be much appreciated