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Good Evening. I am wanting to trace my mothers family, the majority seem to have been born/lived around the Galashiels area.
Limited knowledge to date is Walter Ballantyne born approx 1850, married Jane Brydon 01.11.1872
I do not have birth or death dates of either.
Walters parents James born approx 1805, mother Mary, maiden name unknown born approx 1807. If you could let me have the birth.death dates of the above and marriage date of James and Mary as starters it would be appreciated.
I would like to look at Parish registers etc but in South Africa at present.
Thank you.
Colin
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Hi
The type of info you are looking for is available on Scotlands People which is a pay per view site via purchase of credits (no annual sub available)
www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Deaths from 1855 onwards show both parents names and mothers maiden name
Anything prior to 1855 is available in the Old Parish Registers (OPR's) on the same website
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This is the only 1861 entry with parents James & Mary
4 Stirling Street Roxburghshire
James Ballantyne 56 b Galashiels, Selkirkshire
Mary 52 b Dalkeith, Midlothian
Thomas 25 b Galashiels
Mary 20 b Melrose
Rebecca 16 ditto
Robert 14 ditto
Walter 11 ditto
Ladhope ED 3 Page 10 Line 16
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Here is son Thomas's baptism from Family Search which shows mother as Mary Hogg
Family Search is a free website - here's the link https://familysearch.org/search
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XTB2-FRC
And also from FS - the marriage of James & Mary
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XY7M-584
The Scottish 1881 census shows Jane was b 1853/54 in Hawick Roxburgh
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1861 for Mertoun Berwickshire -- indexed as Bryden
Joan Bryden 36 b St Boswells, Roxburghshire
Catherine 11 ditto
Jane 9 b Hawick
George 7 ditto
Jemima 3 b Hartepool, Durham
William Mary 1 (female so suspect it is either Williamina or Wilhelmina) b Hawick
Mertoun ED 1 Page 3 Line 20
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1851 for St Boswell's
David Brydon 23 sawyer b Ashkirk, Roxburgh
Joan 27 b Legerwood, Berwickshire
Agnes 5 b St Boswell's
Catherine 11 Months ditto
St Boswells ED 1 Page 23 Line 16
Marriage from Family Search
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYQB-X9M
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Hi, my family seems to have stumabled around the Lanarkshire, peebleshire area before coming to Canada ...john Sinclair ballantyne son of William ballantine and Agnes forest but have almost nothing more than names for Williams parents Thomas ballantyne and jean tod.wondering if my dates are holding me back ancestry and family search have differing birth orders and dates in relation to john Sinclair and his brother James.
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My wife's line goes back to a Robert Ballantyne born about 1867 in Scotland married to Annie Laura Fawsitt or Fawsett born 1872. Kids all born in Toronto and Owen Sound 1892-1906.
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Hi
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