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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Angus (Forfarshire) => Topic started by: RABGAB on Wednesday 16 February 11 00:55 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone,
Throughout the years of tracing my family in Montrose, I have noticed that an awful lot of birth, marriages and death were registered by the one person, Peter Duncan, Registrar for the District of Montrose over at least the period 1880-1900 (and most likely earlier and later). Now he must have witnessed an awful lot of events and social changes in the area, and it has prompted my interest in him as an individual.
I would like to know more about this person and was wondering if anyone would have any access to him. My access to a worldwide paid site has just lapsed and I was wondering if you can perform a census search on him with the keyword of Registrar.
Unfortunately I know nothing about him as yet, date of birth etc, :(I am awaiting some assistance from the Montrose Library, but any help that I received, i'd be most appreciative of...I know I am asking a big challenge! Actually that's not quite true, I can confirm he is one of the registrars that had beautiful easy to read handwriting all these years later! :)
I don't even know if Registrars moved around from District to District or if they remained in the one area. ??? ???
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1891 census - 9 Mill Street Montrose - all b Montrose
Peter Duncan 54 registrar of births
Margaret 44
Arthur S 10
Montrose ED 18 Page11 Line 20
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1881 2 Dorward Street Montrose
Peter Duncan 46 registrar of births & C (that's what it says)
Margaret 30
Arthur Stuart Under 1 Month
Montrose ED 18 Page 7 Line 15
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Possible 1861 entry but you really need to lookup his marriage on SP to check parents
17 North Street Montrose
Peter Duncan 79 b Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire Flax Spinning Mill Overscer
Elizabeth 6 shown as wife!!! b Lunan
Peter 27 b Montrose - Lawyer's Muncoine Clerk
Montrose ED 17 Page 8 Line 5
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Submitted IGI entry
PETER DUNCAN Birth: 30 JUL 1832 Christening: 30 JUL 1832 Montrose, Angus,
Father: PETER DUNCAN Mother: ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
Quite a variation in his birthyear
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Thank you so much Carole for looking at this for me!
OOOH a 6 year old wife! Goodness, I am hoping it's just a transcribing error!
That's a wonderful start and now I can go and trawl Scotlands People and try to see what else I can find!
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Using the information that Carole kindly found, I have found what may be the best fitting death in 1914 in Montrose. :)
I'll order the certificate and establish that it is the same person!
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And I see using google maps that when the Duncan family resided in Mill Street at the time of the 1891 census that my relatives lives literally just around the corner.
Makes you wonder how big a place was Montrose in 1891, would he have been likely to know the families around him, especially when the family came in year after year to register a birth and often a death a short time later...
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hi all :)
deceased online has peter duncan death 4th dec. 1914
burial 8th dec. 1914 rosehill cemetery(angus)
as already found SP has peter duncan death 1914 montrose angus born c1833
1841 north street montrose angus(freeCEN)
peter duncan 51 flax spinner
elizabeth duncan 46
elizabeth duncan 15 flax spinner
alexander duncan 12
peter duncan 8
IGI has peter duncan marriage elizabeth alexander 4th dec. 1814 montrose
angus
ev
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If you use the following instructions - you will find all of Peters siblings
PARENT SEARCH ON IGI
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true
Input fathers name and surname and mothers christian name and maiden surname
REGION – select British Isles from the menu
COUNTRY – select Scotland
COUNTY (will appear when you select COUNTRY) – select Angus
Click SEARCH
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Thanks so much EV.
I downloaded his marriage & death certs so I know all of the census return's found were correct.
I'll go and have a play on IGI now!
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Hi all,
Just to let you know the progress...
So far using certificates I have managed to follow Peter Duncan's paternal & maternal parents etc.
The scary thing is that names in their tree intermingle with ones in mine...!
Wondering if this is why I always had an interest in this Registrar!
I have found that Peter's son Arthur Stuart Duncan born 25.03.1881 left for America, arriving in 1920 into New York from Southampton. I haven't been able to follow him yet as my world subscription in Ancestry hasn't been renewed yet, so I'm not sure what happened with him. Seems a bit sad that Peter and his wife were in their 40's when they had him, he appears to be an only child and then he emigrates!