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Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« on: Tuesday 15 September 20 20:30 BST (UK) »
Hello - I am looking for anyone who is tied to a Thomas & Margaret McAulay (nee Brown) of Glasgow - Calton or Lanark. I would love to be able to learn more specific information on either of them prior to their coming to Scotland (it seems that both came from Northern Ireland, but I have no record to prove this - only the fact that they indicate their place of birth as Ireland on the 1861 census). I know of a different Thomas & Margaret in the area, but their children are different. My Thomas & Margaret's children are as follows: Elizabeth, Rebecca, William, & Margaret. Of these, I can only confirm the birth date of Elizabeth McAulay, who later married Joseph Murphy (b. 1837, probably in Armagh; d. 1905 in Dennistoun). As of the 1861 census, they are living in Glasgow, Calton.

I have also located a record for the Christening of a Margaret McAulay on April 6, 1855 at the Great Hamilton Street Reformed Church, to parents Thomas and Margaret McAulay, but I'm not sure this is the correct Margaret, as her age is off by 6 years from the census, and, it is in a Protestant church, when previous marriages were in the Catholic church. Any help would be appreciated!

 

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 21:04 BST (UK) »
Have you got the death certificates for Thomas and Margaret as Scottish certificates have lots of family information on them?

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 21:16 BST (UK) »
Just putting the 1861 census (I hope)
Thomas Mcaulay   52  shoe maker  Ireland
Margaret Mcaulay   50   Ireland
William Mcaulay   18   Ireland
Margaret Mcaulay   13  Glasgow
Rebeca McKillops   28  daughter Ireland
Margaret McKillops   2  grand daughter Glasgow

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 21:35 BST (UK) »
Is this Thomas in 1851 (from F M P), and have you looked at the original on scotlandspeople?

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBC%2F1851%2F0020169333

Thomas  McAuley
Head  Married  Age   47  Birth year   1804  born  Ireland
Shoe Maker Fanely Visiting
living at 24  Broad Street, Glasgow  (Calton)  Lanarkshire


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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 21:46 BST (UK) »
Hiya! Thanx for replying! I do have the death cert for Thomas, but not for Margaret. In fact, when I tried to find the next census for her (it would have been after Thomas died) I'm not sure it is even her. There is one where she is a lodger. I am guessing that she would have gone to live with one of the children, no? So I need her death record for sure. No hits on Scotland's people.

The census list you came up with is my family. That is the one I have.

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 21:50 BST (UK) »
I need to check out the other reference to Thomas that you posted. What kind of record was that - a census, but before he was married??? That could very well likely be him, given his occupation.

Since I know the names of Thomas' parents, how would you suggest I get family information from NI? My only hope is to find someone on here who is somehow related to me/to them, and has a decent paper trail from their own family records. It's so frustrating that many of our folk were in Northern Ireland and I don't know if they started in Scotland, migrated to NI, and stayed. Were native Northern Irish. Or, were Scots who went to NI, then came back home.

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 22:01 BST (UK) »
Sorry, just found this for 1871, but daughter Margaret wrong age:

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1871Scotland&indiv=try&h=2023044

William Mcaulay   28  head carpet designer  Ireland
Catherine Mcaulay   28  wife
Thomas Mcaulay   5
William Mcaulay   1
Margaret Mcaulay   58  mother  Ireland
Margaret Mcaulay   30  sister  Glasgow
Patrick Mcaulay   15  boarder  Glasgow

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 22:09 BST (UK) »
There are 2 deaths for a Margaret McAulay between 1871 and 1881 in Glasgow (neither in High Church). If the age at 1871 census is followed, the Govan death is more likely.

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Re: Looking for ancestors of McAulays from Calton Glasgow area
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 15 September 20 22:10 BST (UK) »
At first glance, that was exciting, but you're right - I don't think that is my family. But I'm going to try to track down original on SP for the first link you sent, as well as what you found for the deaths.