Alexander Liddell Jane Sneddon Marriage

[Flipside]

I will do, i have a seat booked for the day so hopefully will solve a few mysteries as my family is famous for lol. 

Flip

[rosie17]

Just to make you aware the poor relief records is in a different room so allow yourself plenty of time
for searching 

Rosie

[Forfarian]

If i may ask one more question, i have no information about Alexander other than his date of death and location. Is there a way to find out anything about him? 

As he was the father of an illegitimate child, there is a good chance that the Kirk Session took an interest in the matter.

If they did, and if the relevant minute has survived, there will be a report on the proceedings that may contain other information, about Alexander, for example his occupation and where he resided at the time of William's birth.

The Kirk Session records are held in the National Records of Scotland. They have been digitised but at the time of writing can only be consulted in the Historical Search Room in General Register House in Edinburgh, or in one of a small number of local archives including Glasgow.

[brigidmac]

Surely Janet/Jean Short is William's mother in law not mother .

Could the person who registered hisdeath have got their long deceased grandmothers mixed up ?


From the 2nd document...his death cert
I understood that his wife Annie Bettie was illegitimate. If it was William why wasn't that noted directly under His name ?

[Flipside]

Very interesting points brigidmac, i thought the same about why the illegitimate label was under Annie and not William.  However according to ancestry i have the birth registration for Annie her parents were Thomas Beattie and Jean Short so it was probably a mix up at the registration of William's death

I could not find anything in the poor law or Kirk session records, i may have missed something or the records may have not survived

Flip   

[Forfarian]

according to ancestry i have the birth registration for Annie

What exactly do you mean by 'the birth registration for Annie'?

Do not trust anything you find on Ancestry unless it is an image of an original document. If it's an index listing or a transcription, always make a point of getting an original.

And even if it is an original, does the information on it match the information on Annie's marriage certificate?

[wivenhoe]

You have given partial images of these documents -

LIDDELL - BEATTIE marriage, 23 March 1868

LIDDELL William death, 1911
There is notation in left side of page, suggesting amendment Aug 1911?

SEDDON Jane death, 1864 (20 July)
There is notation in left side of page, suggesting amendment 2 Sep 1865?

What are these amendments about?

Can you please show full images for these three documents.