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Brown family of Fraserburgh late 1700s
« on: Sunday 10 May 20 21:15 BST (UK) »
Hi my 4x great grandfather was Alexander Shand born c1786/7 in Fraserburgh who married Isabella Reid.

The Fraserburgh registers are defective so even though there are 2 potential baptisms it could be either or neither due to the defective registers.

I have just found a DNA match to someone on ancestry whose 4x great grandfather was James Brown born c1792-1794. He married Christian Shand at Rathen in 1819.

Me and this person share 10cM so a distant match, but makes it appear like that my Alexander Brown and their James Brown were probably brothers, or perhaps first cousins.

To help me get further I need to find the death certificate of James Brown at some point after 1871. Can anyone please help me find it to see who his parents are please?

This is James Brown in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 census:

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1076&h=795392&ssrc=pt&tid=58066504&pid=38442168212

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1080&h=2245551&ssrc=pt&tid=58066504&pid=38442168212

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1104&h=1146813&ssrc=pt&tid=58066504&pid=38442168212

I would be very grateful if anyone can help.

Thank you,
Jon

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Re: Brown family of Fraserburgh late 1700s
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 10 May 20 22:08 BST (UK) »
You should be able to find it at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk (where you can also see the originals of the censuses).
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Brown family of Fraserburgh late 1700s
« Reply #2 on: Monday 11 May 20 00:01 BST (UK) »
Hi and thank you very much for your reply.

I should have made it clearer that I have indeed looked at Scotland's People and can't find James Brown's death, or that of his wife in the indexes there!

If anyone can please help that would be great!

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Re: Brown family of Fraserburgh late 1700s
« Reply #3 on: Monday 11 May 20 09:21 BST (UK) »
Hi have now realised that the difficulties lie in the face that there are two James Browns born in the early 1790s in Fraserburgh who both married a Christian.

One married Christian Shand, while the other married Christian Adams.

The two couples of same named individuals both lived in Aberdeenshire and I don't think all researchers have realised.

The James Brown I am interested in actually married Christian Adams and died in Fraserburgh.

He died in 1866 in Fraserburgh and his death certificate shows he was the son of Alexander Brown and Margaret Trial.

His baptism therefore seems to be that of James son of Alexander Brown in Fraserburgh in 1790.

As I think my ancestor Alexander Brown was baptised in Fraserburgh in 1788 as the son of another, older James Brown, it seems possible/probable that the father of the younger James, Alexander and the father of the younger Alexander, James, were brothers.

The research continues!

Thanks,
Jon
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