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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #54 on: Sunday 15 July 18 12:31 BST (UK) »
Merry Christmas in July  ;D

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #55 on: Sunday 15 July 18 13:38 BST (UK) »
It certainly is  ;D

JH still playing things close to his chest! Can't easily make out Hettie's maiden name...what's new  ::)

I can see I think Mc Hexxx

As possible variants for Hettie, www.whatsinaname.net/php/search.php?action=search2&search_name=hettie


Dundee, from your attachment, a clip on JH's parents:


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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #56 on: Sunday 15 July 18 19:57 BST (UK) »
Also from the attachment, JH's father, John James McHamilton shows as alive in 1909 at the time of JH's marriage and being in the Imperial Navy. What is the Imperial Navy  :-\ Closest I can come to is...Star Wars  ::)  Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Navy

Rosa's father Robert showing as deceased, so they did seem to state and annotate whether their fathers were alive or deceased in 1909.



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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #57 on: Sunday 15 July 18 20:01 BST (UK) »
My last question on this cert which I can't make out. The place name JH gives for his birth place in the Shetland Isles. Annie, you are great for this area...can you or anyone else make it out?

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #58 on: Sunday 15 July 18 21:59 BST (UK) »
Hettie McHena, maybe?

(McHena/McKena)

Jameston, Shetland Isles. does that exist?

Wonder if he was born in America or something but one parent came from Shetland?
Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #59 on: Sunday 15 July 18 23:35 BST (UK) »
Great to see the cert. but such an anti-climax  ;D

The name of the town/area given looks like Jamestown/Jamestoun & as far as I can see this would be Dunbarton?

Surname looks to be a mis-spelling of possibly McKenna/McNess/(McNeis(h) or similar, very difficult one to decipher?

I have trawled all surnames on 'SP' beginning 'Mc' with H/N/W/K & the above is the best I can come up with although not to say either is correct.

If John James is the father (illegitimately) in Shetland 1881 is it possible John Harold has given his mothers' married name rather than maiden name if she married at a later date?

Could she have really come from Shetland, moved & married further south/west coast & John assumed he was born Shetland?

It would be interesting to find the rest of those children on the 1881 census in Shetland as the coincidence is very strong with such an uncommon surname?

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #60 on: Sunday 15 July 18 23:45 BST (UK) »
I have had a look at FindmyPast "Australian passenger lists" there are 90 result for McHamilton, so it might be worth heading to an Australia libarary and using a free version to browse all the results.



Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #61 on: Monday 16 July 18 00:31 BST (UK) »
The majority of those are for John's voyages on coastal ships where he was employed as a cook.  The others are transcription errors - 'Mr' being misinterpreted as 'Mc'.

I can find no sign of his existence in Australia prior to his marriage so far.  I suspect he wasn't in the RN or had any previous seagoing experience.

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Re: McHamiltons from The Shetlands
« Reply #62 on: Monday 16 July 18 00:46 BST (UK) »
Alfred POTTS was a 23 year old donkeyman from South Shields and John was pushing 50 so he certainly had a sense of humour.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/40233656

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