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« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 12:08 GMT (UK) »
was there any official emmigration to South Africa from stirlingshire in the 1870,s?
I am trying to trace Thomas Reid b. 1860 in Torpichan. He shows up on 1861 and 1871 census and then disappears. He married Amy Harrison in South Africa in April 1888 and I have him from then.
 thanks ................bigjon
Bennett, Tennant, Richards, Price.....Staffordshire
Reid, Brown, Harrison, Saunders, Coetzer........South Africa and Scotland.

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Re: emmigration
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 January 23 12:17 GMT (UK) »
"We search for information, but the burden of proof is always with the thread owner"

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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 03 January 23 12:55 GMT (UK) »
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Re: emmigration
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 03 January 23 13:04 GMT (UK) »
What was his occupation? He may have emigrated after securing a job in Africa.

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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 03 January 23 13:05 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: GR2 on Tuesday 03 January 23 13:04 GMT (UK)
What was his occupation? He may have emigrated after securing a job in Africa.

Occupation on this marriage certificate is platelayer

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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 04 January 23 01:03 GMT (UK) »
This is later, but may be the kind of thing that took him out to Africa.

Southern Echo, 13-9-1897:

      PLATELAYERS FOR AFRICA
The locomotive staff of the London, Chatham,
and Dover Company, are furnishing some forty or
fifty picked men guards, drivers, firemen, and
platelayers - for service on the line opened up from
B[  ]ra to Salisbury, and which is ultimately to be
carried on to Bulawayo. A reporter ................
....... was informed .......... "We are constantly approached ....
by Colonial and foreign agents to find
men we think would be useful as instructors in the
initiating of railway traffic in distant parts. Par-
ticularly, the London and Chatham has been applied to
for platelayers, our platelayers being con-
sidered as amongst the best to be found."
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