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Title: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: harrovian on Monday 23 May 11 23:39 BST (UK)
Hello I have managed to find another but cannot  gather much info from it as i am really struggling with this one.

William McCall marriage to Margaret Marr 21/8/1867 (?) unsure of his occupation think Margarets was FlaxenMill worker? Thomas McCall Labourer? Jane McCall maiden name ?  Robert Marr , can't decipher occupation, Jane Marr, maiden name?

Thanks in Advance :D
Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 23 May 11 23:47 BST (UK)
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Jane Marr, maiden name?

Crawford

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Robert Marr , can't decipher occupation

Thread lapper

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think Margarets was FlaxenMill worker

Flax mill worker

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unsure of his occupation

Looks like engine man
Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: harrovian on Monday 23 May 11 23:57 BST (UK)
Thanks for that!

Can you make out Jane McCalls maiden nme? thinking its Pyper?
Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: Joyful on Tuesday 24 May 11 00:01 BST (UK)
Agree Jane McCall's m/n Piper/Pyper

William's occupation looks like 'engine man' to me as well :)

Joy
Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: janinez on Tuesday 24 May 11 00:03 BST (UK)
Hi there I think 23 August 1867

William's occ, could it be engineman? (could be as he is living near railway station)

margaret marr Flaxmill worker

Robert Marr, Thread lapper?

Jane Marr,   M J Crawford

Thomas Mccall, labourer

Jane Mccall,  Pyper?

 ;D




Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: jancis on Tuesday 24 May 11 10:34 BST (UK)
Did these people live in a mining area?

According to http://www.census1891.com/occupations-e.htm

Engineman - employed at a mine to be in charge of the machinery in the engine house used to crush and transport the ore.


Jill

Or could there have been an equivalent minding engines at the flax mill?
Title: Re: Marriage Cert deciphering help plz
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 24 May 11 11:38 BST (UK)
Hi  :)


I think he was a railway engineman, as janinez spotted from his address.

He was an Engine Keeper on the 1871 census -

Bridge Street, Kilbirnie
RD No 596 ED 6 P 31

and a Railway Engine Fireman on the 1881

17d Railway Buildings, Riccarton
RD 611 ED 8 P 16


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