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Title: George WALDIE of Melrose
Post by: valbe on Thursday 28 January 10 23:52 GMT (UK)

Can anyone help.  My 3 X Gt Grandfather was George Waldie on the 1851 English census born Melrose, Scotland about 1779.  He married in Lincolnshire and then lived in Hull East Yorkshire until he died in 1852.  Childrens names Jane, Mary Ann, George, Margaret, James and Archibald.  Am trying to find his parents without success.

Title: Re: GEORGE WALDIE OF MELROSE
Post by: luckydog on Friday 29 January 10 08:54 GMT (UK)

Hi Valbe

The IGI has George Waldie christened 17 September 1785 in Stitchel, Roxburghshire.
Father James Waldie
Mother Agnes Heiton

Mike

Title: Re: GEORGE WALDIE OF MELROSE
Post by: valbe on Friday 29 January 10 09:00 GMT (UK)

Thanks but I feel it has to be earlier unless he wasnt baptised until much later.  He was married in 1802 and his first child was 1803 he had to have come down from Scotland to Lincolnshire got married and then gone to Hull and had his first child.  I need him to be born about 1779 or before. BUT its possible.

Title: Re: George WALDIE of Melrose
Post by: Rockford on Friday 29 January 10 13:41 GMT (UK)

Hi Valbe,

This link:

http://www.archive.org/stream/scottishrecordso33scotuoft#page/n5/mode/2up

Is a 1913 publication of the early Parish Records of Melrose.  I can't see any George born c1779, but there is a George Waldie with wife Margaret living at Drygrange, who were having children in the late 1790s.

Might be a link or might not!

Best wishes

Rockford

Title: Re: George WALDIE of Melrose
Post by: alan14578 on Friday 29 January 10 21:50 GMT (UK)

In Melrose Abbey churchyard there is only one George  Waldie  died Drygrange Bridge  6-7-1816 aged 56yrs.
No Waldies in Weirhill cemetery.
alan

Title: Re: George WALDIE of Melrose
Post by: valbe on Saturday 30 January 10 11:39 GMT (UK)

A big thank you to everyone trying to help me - I havent pinned George Waldie down yet - the Parish Register for Melrose is super.  Although George says on the 1851 census his birth place is Melrose its possible he came from a place near by.  The George Waldie buried in Melrose Abbey Churchyard could well be his father.  George himself is buried in Hull so its family members I was looking for in Melrose Churchyard.  I really appreciate everyones time and effort.  Not sure where to go from here.