Great uncle

[McLAUGHLIN]

Hi trying to find out any information about my great uncle George fettes Ewen born 3 April 1921 in Enzie. Any help would be much appreciated 😃

[CaroleW]

You have posted on the Beginners board but Enzie is in Scotland.  I have asked the moderator to move your post to the Banffshire board

You need to be more specific about the type of info you are looking for.  If you are looking for BMD info you need to use www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

If you are looking for living relatives - Rootschat has a strict no living persons policy

Another birth for exactly the same name and also in 1921 but in Aberdeen so be careful when searching

[Ladyhawk]

Hi trying to find out any information about my great uncle George fettes Ewen born 3 April 1921 in Enzie.

Any help would be much appreciated 😃

Is this his death?

George Fettes Ewen Death Age:   66
Birth 3 Apr 1921
Mar 1988    Petersfield Hampshire Volume:   20 Page:   606

[Ladyhawk]

You would need to verify details there’s a public tree on Ancestry mentions George born   3 Apr 1921 Ergin, Banff, Banffshire with following

wife
Jessie Cruden Adams
Born 5 Oct 1917 • Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 15TH Nov 1987 • Corby, Northamptonshire, England
No marriage detail
child private

No father
mother
Elizabeth Jane Ewen
Birth 1890 • Strachan, Kincardineshire
Death 22 DEC 1960 • SPYNIE HOSPITAL ELGIN, Scotland

[CaroleW]

That 1988 death could be the other George Fettes Ewen b 1921 Aberdeen - see my reply above.  He married Jessie Cruden Adams or Forbes in 1957 Aberdeen

There is a death of a Jessie Cruden Ewen in 1987 Northants

SNAP 

More info needed from poster

[McLAUGHLIN]

You would need to verify details there’s a public tree on Ancestry mentions George born   3 Apr 1921 Ergin, Banff, Banffshire with following

wife
Jessie Cruden Adams
Born 5 Oct 1917 • Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 15TH Nov 1987 • Corby, Northamptonshire, England
No marriage detail
child private

No father
mother
Elizabeth Jane Ewen
Birth 1890 • Strachan, Kincardineshire
Death 22 DEC 1960 • SPYNIE HOSPITAL ELGIN, Scotland

Yes that’s him. Thanks very much. Is there any other information on there ? Cheers

[Ladyhawk]

Yes that’s him. Thanks very much. Is there any other information on there ? Cheers

Only other info for George year of death 1988 no details
Names two siblings only info is year of birth
1901 census for mother, her parents and siblings

Will send you a PM with his siblings names

[Forfarian]

You would need to verify details there’s a public tree on Ancestry mentions George born   3 Apr 1921 Ergin, Banff, Banffshire

If it says Ergin, Banffshire, do not trust it. There is no such place as Ergin. There is a place called Elgin, but it is not in Banffshire. And there is no record of a birth of a George Ew*n in Elgin in 1921.

Ther are two records of births of George Fettes Ewen in 1921, one in Enzie, Banffshire and one in Cairnie, Aberdeenshire, which is the next district to Keith, Banffshire and quite a long way from the city of Aberdeen. The most likely explanation for this is that this is one and the same person, who was not born in his parents' normal district of residence. When this happened, the registrar in the birth parish had to forward the details to the registrar in the district where the parents normally lived, so you get a double record.

He might actually have been born in the county of Moray, which was known at one time as Elginshire, because the district of Enzie straddles the counties of Banffshire and Moray.

[Ladyhawk]

Ther are two records of births of
George Fettes Ewen in 1921,
one in Enzie, Banffshire and
one in Cairnie, Aberdeenshire, which is the next district to Keith, Banffshire and quite a long way from the city of Aberdeen.

The most likely explanation for this is that this is one and the same person, who was not born in his parents' normal district of residence. When this happened, the registrar in the birth parish had to forward the details to the registrar in the district where the parents normally lived, so you get a double record.

Re: public tree and the named 'siblings' of GFE b1921 - I see a 1928 birth entry for one of the names BUT the RD Banchory Ternan and then the other has TWO entries bn 1921

Is this just a coincidence or could GFE have been a twin 

GFE Year 1921   Ref 178/ 6     RD Name Cairnie
GFE Year 1921   Ref 152/ 21 RD Name Enzie

MME Year 1921   Ref 178/ 7   RD name Cairnie
MME Year 1921   Ref 152/ 22 RD name   Enzie