Help negotiating Scottish records

[Ranolki]

I'm looking at a family who seem to spend their time moving between Wark in England and Coldstream in Scotland.  A distance of a couple of miles but it's making my life difficult.  I'm using Ancestry and scotlandspeople but there's something I can't work out, something which can be done with the English records but apparently not with the Scottish ones. I'm looking at two men (who may well be alive so I'll leave their full names out) who were born in the 1930s.  So that I can work out which one I need, I need to know their mothers' maiden names.  Short of ordering both BCs is there any other way of finding this info please? 

[CaroleW]

If English - look up the birth record on www.freebmd.org.uk & mmn will be shown against the entry if b 1930’s

Scotland - the 100yr rule applies to births so you cannot download for that period - you have to buy the cert

[oldfashionedgirl]

For the Scottish one you could post a request for someone to look it up if they were going to Register House in Edinburgh or the Mitchell Library in Glasgow as they will be able to see and copy the information down but not digitally or photocopy it.

[Ranolki]

These must be Scottish births, I can't find them in the English records.  They really did move backwards and forwards across the border regularly so I'm not surprised.  They were shepherds/farmers so I think the land may even have sat right on the border!

Thanks for the info on looking up the records, I'll ask if anyone could look them up next time.  Great idea, I appreciate that!

Where is the best part on the forum to put a request out please?

[Crumblie]

What you could try with the Scottish records is looking for a possible death which may have the mother's maiden name you are looking for. This may not work but it could help narrow your search a little.

[oldfashionedgirl]

Probably best to post your request on the Scotland board.

Something like ‘Is anyone going to Register House/Mitchell Library? Request look up please’

Good Luck

[Ranolki]

Thank you Crumblie!  That actually gave me what I needed.  Great suggestion!

[Crumblie]

Ranolki, glad I could help, with my father's side of the family being Scottish I spend a lot of time searching Scotlands People. I wish the GRO would set up a similar site.

[BillyF]

I had the same problem with my 2x gt grandparents also moving between Coldstream and area, and into England. This was in the 19th century just as Statutory records in Scotland began.

When my gt granfather ws born at Coldstream in 1855, his cert says he was the 3rd child; there is "no" record of the eldest child anywhere. It`s so frustrating !!