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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #27 on: Friday 14 September 18 03:52 BST (UK) »
A possible?

COWAN WALTER 61
1911
644/12 29/ 17 Hillhead, Lanark

Edit...or this which seems a better fit compared with age on death?

COWAN WALTER 71
1911
560/ 19/L 10 Cathcart, Lanark

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #28 on: Friday 14 September 18 21:22 BST (UK) »
Hi
Annie
Sorry I was in work all day that some work you have been doing thank you, I have sent attachment of Christopher jordan.
Let me know you seen it
Diarmuid.

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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #29 on: Friday 14 September 18 21:38 BST (UK) »
Picture my great grandfather Christopher Jordan, great  grandmother Elizabeth and daughter Mary Ellen , picture 1893 Dublin .

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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #30 on: Friday 14 September 18 23:19 BST (UK) »
Yes Diarmuid, the images are showing, lovely pic of Christopher, wife & child, so nice to have!

I found a Walter Cowan all through the census' beginning as a Book Seller (1871/1881)/Advertising Contractor (1891)/Adverlesing (Advertising) Agent (1901) i.e. if it's him he's climed the ladder through the yrs & seems to have done well!

It may be worth getting the Will & Inventory from SP to see what they say which may give an idea whether he's the correct man although it does look good?

Do you use Ancestry?
There's someone added a correct name on one of the mistranscriptions of his surname which was showing as 'Corran' & I'm wondering if she's connected?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"


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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #31 on: Friday 14 September 18 23:42 BST (UK) »
Yes now and again on ancestry, Annie , my cousin gave me the picture of Christopher many years ago, it's a hard nut to crack Walter cowen, Annie.
Diarmuid

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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #32 on: Saturday 15 September 18 08:46 BST (UK) »
Book Seller (1871/1881)/Advertising Contractor (1891)/Adverlesing (Advertising) Agent (1901) i.e. if it's him he's climed the ladder through the yrs
Bookseller to advertising agent looks more like a slide down the snakes than a climb up the ladder  ;)
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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #33 on: Sunday 16 September 18 22:09 BST (UK) »
Annie
Is this Walter cowen would you say .
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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #34 on: Sunday 16 September 18 23:31 BST (UK) »
It's looking good from the terminology "Contractor" but like anything it's difficult to tell without seeing the doc?

I'm a bit undecided as I may be reading & seeing something different from what Forfarian is seeing?

My take was this Walter (the one I've found) was as a Bookseller > Advertising Contractor > Advertising Agent > Plumbing Contractor & may have been self employed as we have today like a Contractor/Agency providing workers, receiving a high income & paying the workers just like a Contractor/Agency in this day, if such a thing was done then?

The Will Index isn't specific in what kind of 'Contractor' i.e. without seeing it you may always wonder  :-\

However, he was well enough off to need & afford a will.

The amount for a Will or Inventory regardless of how many pages is £2.50 each but it's dependent on how keen you are to find out simply?

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"

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Re: Christopher jordan ,dornoch 1916
« Reply #35 on: Sunday 16 September 18 23:38 BST (UK) »
Paying not the problem Annie; if you can tell me how to go about it to get a copy of will
Thanks
Diarmuid.