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Title: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: olphert on Saturday 15 August 09 14:22 BST (UK)
Can anyone help please?

I am looking for Scott Lindsay born approx 1817 Co.Londonderry who married Ann ? born approx 1822 in Co.Antrim.  They had several children in Drumachose between 1841 &1863/4 which I have managed to find on the IGI.  I have found Scott in Glasgow in the 1881 Scotland Census as a pensioner from the RIC.

I want to find out Scott's birthplace (& his parents names), his wife's surname & when/where they married (around 1840 i'm guessing) & anything else about their life in Ireland - not alot then!!

Any advice welcome.  Thanks. Olphert
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: Gortinanima on Saturday 15 August 09 16:24 BST (UK)
Seems to me the children of Scott and Ann Lindsay were
baptised in Drumachose [Limavady] Presbyterian Church
and someone has put the details on the IGI.

PRONI MIC/1P/422.
Baptisms 1837-1913
No marriages before 1845.

A Thomas Lindsay married Elizabeth Williamson 24 Feb 1834
in Christchurch [Drumachose/Limavady Church of Ireland].
There appear to be no Lindsay baptisms in Christchurch before
civil registration [1864].
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: Gortinanima on Saturday 15 August 09 18:55 BST (UK)
I found this on a website on Ferguson families of Ulster:

Died
22 Mar 1869, Magherafelt, Margaret Ferguson, Widow, 80, House Keeping, Debility & Old Age, Scott Lindsay - Magherafelt Workhouse

Scott was a witness to this death in Magherafelt workhouse so perhaps
he was working there in 1869? [or there may have been another Scott
Lindsay?]
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: olphert on Sunday 16 August 09 12:33 BST (UK)
Many thanks for your help Gortinanima - it is much appreciated.  I didn't realise that it would be a Presbyterian Church where the children were baptised & I will investigate both Thomas Lindsay & Magherafelt workhouse.
Thanks, Olphert
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: linds1612 on Wednesday 01 February 12 22:06 GMT (UK)
Hello

I am also looking for Scott and Ann Lindsay.

I have also found Scott in Glasgow in the 1881 Scotland Census as a pensioner from the RIC. Is it possible to get further info from RIC records and if so how?

I want to find out Scott's birthplace (& his parents names), his wife's surname & when/where they married (around 1840 i'm guessing) & anything else about their life in Ireland - not alot then!! (Sound familiar?? :))

Any advice welcome as searching in Ireland is not easy and when we have the Lindsay side sorted we have to start searching for O'Briens!!!!!!

Thanks

Andrew
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: linds1612 on Sunday 26 February 12 13:30 GMT (UK)
Hello again!

Further investigation of baptism records suggests that Scott and Ann Lindsay were Master and Matron of the Magherafelt Workhouse between 1848 and 1871.

I would like to get hold of the Magherafelt Workhouse minutes (BG/23/A) which is held at PRONI.
Can anyone suggest the best way to get hold of the minutes from that period please?

Thanks

Andrew
Title: Re: Londonderry Drumachose residents
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 26 February 12 13:39 GMT (UK)
PRONI would have the workhouse records- check their online e-catalogue at www.proni.gov.uk.

Coleraine Chronicle 24 Jan.1852: BIRTH- At Magherafelt, on the 20th inst., Mrs. Lindsay, Matron of the Workhouse, of a daughter.

Coleraine Chronicle 12 Aug.1854: BIRTH- At the Workhouse Magherafelt, August 9th, the wife of Mr. Scott Lindsay, Master, of a daughter.

Coleraine Chronicle 23 July 1859: BIRTH- At Magherafelt, July 16, the wife of Mr. Scott Lindsay, of a daughter.

Coleraine Chronicle 4 Aug.1860: BIRTH- At Magherafelt, July 29, Mrs. Scott Lindsay, of a daughter.