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Betsy Macdonald
« on: Saturday 30 July 22 18:05 BST (UK) »
I’m getting ma heid done in here!
I’m researching family of my great great grandparents, Hugh MacDonald (blacksmith) and his wife, Mary Ann Gray. They had 8 children.I’ve pretty much followed them all, bar one.
Her name is Betsy Macdonald, born 26/7/1878 at Knockbain. She appears in the 1881 and 1891 census, but then disappears.
Nothing in deaths, marriages etc. Tried Find My Past, Scotlands People…nothing!
Anybody got any further info on this family?

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 30 July 22 20:33 BST (UK) »
There is a Betsy MacDonald born 1878 Lochbroom Rosshire working as a cook domestic
Address 5,Great King Street Midlothian for a Alexander Thomson and his wife on the 1901
Census might be a possibility

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 30 July 22 20:35 BST (UK) »
Hi Rosie. No, my Betsy was born Knockbain.
Thank you though 🙏

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 30 July 22 20:41 BST (UK) »
Do you have her birth certificate ? There is a birth for a Betsy MacDonald 1878
Lochbroom and one in Harris South on Scotland's People

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 30 July 22 20:47 BST (UK) »
I’ve got a copy of record from SP. Definitely born Knockbain

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 30 July 22 22:50 BST (UK) »
Just to clarify the birth rosie 17.

The Mountie is quite correct her birth was indeed registered in Knockbain in 1878 but the spelling is McDonald.

The Mountie - Did any of her siblings go abroad and if so could she have joined them? I am not finding a marriage or death for her on SP either using the variations of her surname.

Sorry no help really but keep digging and she may turn up.

Good Luck,

Dorrie

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 30 July 22 22:55 BST (UK) »
Thanks for looking. I’ve tried every possible combination/variation without success.
Her siblings all remained local, and I’ve pretty much tracked their lives from birth to death.
Betsy however, remains a mystery.

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 31 July 22 11:44 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dorrie  ;) Mountie have you checked the 1911 census for her parents to see if all children born are alive

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Re: Betsy Macdonald
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 31 July 22 12:09 BST (UK) »
Indeed I have. Betsy is only one missing
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