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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: margmo1 on Sunday 24 April 16 16:57 BST (UK)
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I have the OPR death certificate for Thomas Laurie . He died in 1799 - Covington & Thankerton.
I would be grateful if someone could help me read where he came from. I think it begins with the letter M.
thanks
margaret
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I thought it looked like it started with a W, possibly Wishaw?
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Hi
It might be Wiston. Wiston and Roberton is an adjacent parish.
William
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Looking at it again it does look like a W.
Wiston is probably the place . Do you know if there is a churchyard at Wiston as he may have been buried there & with any luck have a headstone giving some clue's to more family.
thanks William & Donny for your help.
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There is a book with all the pre 1855 monumental inscriptions of the South Lanarkshire Parishes(The Upper Ward of Lanarkshire) - I only have a copy of the Libberton ones(another adjacent parish). Might be worth having a look at the Scottish Genealogical Society site to see what is available.
William
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It looks like Wiston to me. Wishaw was Wishawtown in those days and a very small village, plus it would probably have given the parish, which is Cambusnethan.
He isn't in the Pre 1855 Upper Ward of Lanarkshire MI book for Wiston, Covington, Thankerton or Roberton churchyards.
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thank you William & lodger for your replies & help.
regards
Margaret
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Hi, Margaret,
www.findagrave.com search Wiston and find a " Mary Laurie" 12 March 1779.
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hi lud
Thank you so much for finding Mary Laurie. Thomas Laurie married a Mary Forrest so it looks like this could be the burial place of his wife. When our weather warms up I will take a trip to Winston churchyard.
thanks again, this has been very helpful.
margaret
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Usually a married woman is know by her maiden surname on the tombstone, not 100% of the time but in that era and in a country parish such as this, my guess would be that her name would have been Mary Forrest on the stone.
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I have been back on SP & I couldn't find a death certificate for mary laurie in 1799, but Thomas died in 1799. I did find the death of one mary laurie on 1/1/1773 at castairs (others were all Glasgow). unfortunalely this certificate yielded no other info.
should I be looking for a death certificate in the name of mary forrest rather than mary laurie.
thanks again
margaret
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Here in Scotland statutory registration did not come into place until 1st January 1855. Before that date there was no such thing as a "death certificate" (or a birth or marriage certificate). What you are looking at are extracts from the old parochial registers. They vary a great deal from parish to parish. Many have been lost or destroyed over the years. Others are illegible or the entry so basic that it is useless.
for example, how can you prove that Thomas Laurie who died in 1799 is the one you are looking for? He may have had several cousins with the same name or, it may be another Thomas Lawrie (Lourie etc) entirely.
Wandall & Lamington is a parish near Covington, here's an example of an 1833 burial register entry.
"December 10th 1833. Died this morning aged 66. Mary Carmichael a pauper in the village, widow of James Murdoch weaver in Lamington. She was a martyr to rheumatism upwards of 20 years & was much deformed in consequence of her troubles.
Buried in Lamington on Thursday 12th".
If only Covington & Thankerton had had such a session clerk.
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many thanks for the explanation. I think I will have to give up on looking for Thomas.
regards
margaret
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Thank you so much for finding Mary Laurie. Thomas Laurie married a Mary Forrest so it looks like this could be the burial place of his wife.
Don't forget that it was not usual for a married woman to take her husband's surname in the 18th century, and that most married women's maiden surnames are included in gravestone inscriptions.
Edit: Sorry, I see that Lodger has already made the same point, and much more eloquently than I did.