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Offline CG07

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Margaret McMurtrie
« on: Thursday 30 September 21 13:48 BST (UK) »
Strange question and perhaps belongs in the Irish forum. i've found a relative of mine, Margaret McMurtrie, who lived to 98 and has a death notice in the newspaper, however this newspaper was from Belfast. As far as i'm aware neither she or her parents were Irish. does anyone know if this was normal for an Irish paper to post about a Scottish death? I know she married a James Davidson and her parents were Robert McMurtrie and Elizabeth McConnell.
I've attached the paper clipping below

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Re: Margaret McMurtrie
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 30 September 21 14:01 BST (UK) »
Hi,
Yes is the answer.
Somewhere there must have been a Belfast connection a relative or friends.
That was the only way people got to know deaths also Births and Marriages.
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Re: Margaret McMurtrie
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 30 September 21 15:59 BST (UK) »
Records on SP confirm the information, as posted with the number of children they had at least one might have been in Belfast.

JAMES DAVIDSON   Married    MARGARET MCMURTRIE   02/07/1761   Dailly

Children's records only note father. Deaths below

MARGARET DAVIDSON   Died    07/07/1838   Dailly

JAMES DAVIDSON   Died    80   00/06/1818   Dailly

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