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Alexander McKirdy
« on: Wednesday 27 January 21 16:34 GMT (UK) »
I’m trying to find information on Alexander McKirdy, possibly born late 1700s in Bute Scotland. He was married to Mary McFie and dead by 1839. He was a seaman. I was also looking for any information on their wedding date.

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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 17:22 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat

Scotlands People is the website to use for BMD information.  It’s pay per view via purchase of credits but has a free to search index.  Make sure you select Church Registers for anything prior to 1855 when Civil Registration was introduced

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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 17:28 GMT (UK) »
SP shows 2 births both Rothesay - father Alexander  - mother Mary McFie
John 25.4.1823
Alexander 8.2.1826
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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 17:38 GMT (UK) »
There is this 1841 transcription but you need to view the original on SP

All surname McKirdy living & born in Bute

Mary 45
Catherine 20
John 15
Alex 10
Janet McPue (check original in case it’s McFie) 80
Rothesay ED5 page 7 Line 1170
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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 18:45 GMT (UK) »
On Find My Past there is a record of a memorial erected by John McKirdy for his wife Margaret Stewart, son Alexander McKirdy died on board ship (Glasgow) 18/08/1823 at Morant Bay, Jamaica.
Muckley, Routledge, Roe, Bontoft, Brumpton, Bills, Aspatria, Carlisle

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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 18:46 GMT (UK) »
Oops just seen dates for his children so this man is not your man.
Muckley, Routledge, Roe, Bontoft, Brumpton, Bills, Aspatria, Carlisle

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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 18:48 GMT (UK) »
Says McFie on the 1841 FreeCEN transcription -
Janet McFie 80 born Bute.


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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 January 21 20:48 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for your replies. The 1841 Bute census maybe correct, I already have that from Scotland’s People which I access a lot. He is in Male Head of House in 1838 and dead by the 1839 one. As I’m unsure of his mother or father it’s difficult to find a correct answer to what happened to him. Maybe he died at sea? His wife lived till she was 90.

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Re: Alexander McKirdy
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 30 January 21 10:27 GMT (UK) »
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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