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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Argyllshire => Topic started by: marcie dean on Tuesday 23 February 10 00:50 GMT (UK)
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Recently was conversing with someone who is a distant relative who then sent to me their Gedcom so now I have another branch added to my tree.k
Namely Campbells, Mcphail, McTaggart and probably other names kwhich I cannot remember.
Trying to combine the two parts, merge the trees so that it makes sense. It seems to me that they are ignoring their irish roots for their scottish ones. Mary Taggart has become McTaggart.
Apologies if the person is on Rootschat. But trying to make sense of it all.
My question is , has anyone else had problems like this. Currently I am not in a position to check the details with SP. A lot of the info on the tree is supposedly through family members, cited as the source
marcie
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Marcie
You have probably seen and read a number of these types of questions coming up in many places on Rootschat.
If you don't have verifiable sources for the gedcom you have been given (and it is based in the main on family heresay) the danger will be that you could potentially mess up your own tree that you have verified to date.
You could always hold off adding it to your tree and leave it separate for now until you are in a position to start checking out some of the key data on it. That way, what entries you do add to your tree you can be certain that they are accurate :)
Monica
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Thanks Monica
I will do that. The one thing that is a possible is that my gggran Janet O'May who married Alexander Smith I know that she had sisters and named 2 of her female children after them. One was Jane the other was not sure if it was Agnes or Elizabeth. This lady has an Agnes O'May in her tree and she says that her relative had a sister called Janet and the other thing was she said that Agnes was the daughter of William O'May and Margaret Milloy. But the dates she has for their arrival in Scotland is back in the late 1700s and not the information I picked up from the census. It is like the Irish part of the family is being ignored, overwritten, buried. And I see no shame in being either Irish or Scots. They had them marching together in war time, and tkhey used to steel each others fireworks according to my grandad. ::)
marcie
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Good day to you, Marcie. My name is Laura and I live in Canada. William O'may and Margaret Milloy are my great-great-great grandparents. I have a copy of a tree that was given to me by my brother that goes back a couple more generations than them. The problem is that the farther back you go, the more foggy the information. My tree also shows McTaggart, but it seems like almost everyone is shown as being born in Argylshire. I've only been looking for a short time, but find it very interesting. Nice to meet you!
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have a look in campbelltown an johnstone in Renfrewshire
William milloy did gardening work for a while so did our omay ancestors between jobs? retired? don't know but that is in the genes obviously, as I became a horticulturalist eventually. my granddad used to do his own garden growing veg and flowers comes down through a long line of interesting people
Marji.
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Thank-you for that, Marci. Other than a few houseplants that manage, I seem to not have much of a green thumb myself. I will tell you that I married a man whose father went to school, back in Italy, for agriculture. His vegetable and fruit garden was something to amaze over. He had a pear tree trained like a vine that made a wall. He had an apple tree with seven different varieties of apples from grafting. He was one of the smartest men I knew. Unfortunately he passed last year and his garden has been sodded over.
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:'(that is sad what I like about Italy is the thought of growing kiwis as well as figs etc. there is a nectarine called pineapple which has the smell and slight taste of pineapple which can be grown in this country but I tried to get one last year, sadly out of stock but one-day £39 I think it was but still I will place it on my wish list and see what Santa brings me. probably bed socks not plants lol ;D
marcie
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Recently was conversing with someone who is a distant relative who then sent to me their Gedcom so now I have another branch added to my tree.k
Namely Campbells, Mcphail, McTaggart and probably other names kwhich I cannot remember.
Trying to combine the two parts, merge the trees so that it makes sense. It seems to me that they are ignoring their irish roots for their scottish ones. Mary Taggart has become McTaggart.
Apologies if the person is on Rootschat. But trying to make sense of it all.
My question is , has anyone else had problems like this. Currently I am not in a position to check the details with SP. A lot of the info on the tree is supposedly through family members, cited as the sourcethen there are the smiths that married them, you sure you know what you are letting yourself in for?? ;D ;D :P
marcie
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Good day to you, Marcie. My name is Laura and I live in Canada. William O'may and Margaret Milloy are my great-great-great grandparents. I have a copy of a tree that was given to me by my brother that goes back a couple more generations than them. The problem is that the farther back you go, the more foggy the information. My tree also shows McTaggart, but it seems like almost everyone is shown as being born in Argylshire. I've only been looking for a short time, but find it very interesting. Nice to meet you!
have a look at westtmeath southernireland, youll ne surprised thouhj at the spellling if the name. see if I can vaguely remember O'meagheagh?
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your cousin wouldn't be glen kalyk? he's my third cousin his line comes down through the brown and moss?families, he lives in vancouver.he used to be on genes re-united
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mceachran by any chance, kirkwood, steele. you should contact angus on the isle of mull he looks afterthe family history records a lot of family history concerning the families in mull, bell trails, calquahoun, etc there is probably a few i have forgotten flett laird, george the farmer laird is third cousin apparently to william of orangethough I cant remember his surname but I found him through thr ralston magazine, the o'may men were all religious the become chaplins etc in the church and there are threebrothers who at one time owned three diocese betweeb them boundaries if which bounded each other, and cornelias o'may attended st andrews university and left with honours in divinty, my grt gran was janet o'may smith, her parents, alexander smith and janet o'mayshe was the daiughter of willliam o'may and margaret milloycannot remember the other siblings in margarets family only my grtgran janets, there was hugh, muriel muir but he died aged 4, then alexander he married an isabelle with a foreign sounding name her father was maltese I think lecturer or translater, or somesuch, then there was william the troyble is they had the habit of repeating names sometimes eg:hugh more than once but to doffrentiate one was hugh alexander the other was just hugh he was the youngest son but the youngestchild was muriel she married a james hamilton and had a boy they named james sydney hanilton , think from memory, on the smith side you start with a hugh wjo came over from ireland between 1800-1880 they had 13 children they had muir, elizabeth, mary, helen, she died aged 15 she was a above ground in all weathers sorting the coal into usual or take home because that was all they could afford left the clinker as rubbish but she was inhaling all the dust that came offof it, so she became ill her mother tried to loook after but her husband was also sick, he ended up in in an almshousehospital to ill to work anymore which she had to pay for until the money dried up. I suppose that was the name they have them then , they probably were pre workhouse helen stayed with her mother, and tried to help look after her father with her mother but in the end she died before he did.they had a john, william,I think mary was the eldest, then elizabeth ,muir, william. john,no alexanders for them but something is niggling me they may hsave had a james, margaret,anne, sorry cant remember any others. the o'may family mostly stuck to william donald,alexander,james. janejanet, mary and margaret except for one branch a third cousin broke away from the morm she was married to a donald or dugald o'may sand her daughter was calledsomething like naomi or something.sorry again i'm stuck. the same as the campbells and the mcdonalds
maybe come on ancestry, I have 7 trees , one with the o'may family and the steels go through to trail, laird, etc I think that margaret milloy was the daughter of janet campbell?both of which are related to levison gower, because the old mans daughters married into the campbell family but the boys married wealthy women just like their father, either that or influential daughters if influentially political men.
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No suprises there with McTaggart being given different spellings...i have McTaggart, McIntgart, McTagairt, and they're all the same family :) (then theres the McDougall's who were McDougald's)
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is angus still live i used to talk to hhim when i was on Genes Reunited years ago now.?
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now also looking for a connection between my family of o'may and smith and the campbells as my carer is a campbell