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Title: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: Rocky1 on Tuesday 30 May 06 04:37 BST (UK)
Searching for information if there were children born of these marriages:

Mother: Mary Pollock Millar, bd Nov 25, 1866, Coatbridge, Scotland. Death: Feb 10th, 1945
Father: John McDonald, bd March 25, 1869, Crook of Avis, Scotland. Death: Feb 13th, 1945
Married: Nov 28, 1902, Coatbridge.

and

Mother : Annie Jane Nimmo.
Father : John McDonald (died May 27, 1921)
(Possibly living at Hutchesontown, Gorbals, Glasgow.
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: Rosinish on Monday 14 July 14 07:09 BST (UK)

Father: John McDonald, bd March 25, 1869, Crook of Avis, Scotland.

Can you give the registration Area where John was born please as I have never heard of Crook of Avis (old name possibly)?

Regards,

Annie
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: kirkmichael on Tuesday 15 July 14 17:32 BST (UK)
Hi Rocky1

There is an entry in the Coatbridge census in 1911 for an appropriately aged John McDONALD and Mary.

But that in the context that I can't see a 1902 marriage for John MCDONALD and Mary POLLOCK, except. of course, that she was Mary Pollok MILLER which 1902 marriage in Coatbridge does indeed exist ...............

kirkmichael
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: IMBER on Wednesday 16 July 14 07:52 BST (UK)
Surely it's Crook of Alves?

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Alves,_Moray,_Scotland

Imber
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: Forfarian on Wednesday 16 July 14 08:55 BST (UK)
Imber is right.

The IGI lists the birth of John McDonald, parents William McDonald and Isabella Fraser, in Alves on 25 March 1869.

Alves is pronounced 'AH-viss'.

Crook of Alves is the name of the village in the parish of Alves. The pub was called the Crook Inn but it was changed to Crooked Inn a decade or two ago.

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ1362
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: Rocky1 on Tuesday 22 July 14 18:40 BST (UK)
Hello kirkmichael,
This is the family I have been researching.  John MCDonald was a police constable in Coatbridge.  I believe he was attached to the Coatbridge St. Woodside St. police station.
My research so far found NO living biological children from this marriage. 

Does the Coatbridge 1911 Census show a child named John Brown McDonald MILLER (bd Oct. 1905) living with them at Coatbridge? 
John Brown McDonald Miller was in fact the illigitimate child of Mary Pollock MILLER's sister Elizabeth Allan Miller, who showed an address at 23 Ashton Lane Glasgow.
This couple later moved to Distillery Cottages, GARNKIRK, (Cadder District).  Is there any way to tell when they moved from Coatbridge?
Rocky 1
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: kirkmichael on Monday 04 August 14 20:08 BST (UK)
Hello kirkmichael,
This is the family I have been researching.  John MCDonald was a police constable in Coatbridge.  I believe he was attached to the Coatbridge St. Woodside St. police station.
My research so far found NO living biological children from this marriage. 

Does the Coatbridge 1911 Census show a child named John Brown McDonald MILLER (bd Oct. 1905) living with them at Coatbridge? 
John Brown McDonald Miller was in fact the illigitimate child of Mary Pollock MILLER's sister Elizabeth Allan Miller, who showed an address at 23 Ashton Lane Glasgow.
This couple later moved to Distillery Cottages, GARNKIRK, (Cadder District).  Is there any way to tell when they moved from Coatbridge?
Rocky 1

Hi Rocky

The 1911 census record that I found doesn't appear to connect.

wkr

kirkmichael
Title: Re: Children from: Millar/McDonald/ Nimmo/McDonald
Post by: sarah on Tuesday 05 August 14 10:11 BST (UK)
Hi Rocky,

We are having problems with your email notifications at the moment, just sent you a PM with some more information.

Regards

Sarah :)