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Title: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 21:43 BST (UK)
I'm trying recolate my grandmother grave her name was Margaret leggate wardrop her last address was in stonehouse in south lanarkshire,Scotland
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 22:25 BST (UK)
Hi

You haven't given any details of when she died
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 22:29 BST (UK)
I do apologise  she died in 1953 in stonehouse 
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 22:35 BST (UK)
Scotlands People is not showing a 1953 death for that name.  There is a death for a Margaret Lawson Wardrop in Bonnybridge 1953 aged 48.  Are you sure she died in 1953?
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 22:39 BST (UK)
I think she died around that year but not sure  ,her parents we're  William wardrop  & Elizabeth  wardrop (nee Cranston) .
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 22:46 BST (UK)
Have you looked for the death on Scotlands People?  www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk


How old was she when she died?
Title: Re: Margaret leggat wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 22:48 BST (UK)
Yes can't find anything  just  yet
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 22:53 BST (UK)
I have looked from 1935-1975 in all counties and nothing with that middle name.

When was she born?
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 22:56 BST (UK)
Roundabout  1922 at hillhead  according  to  Scotland's  people   
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 23:03 BST (UK)
So Wardrop was her maiden name - did she marry?  If so - her death would probably be under her married name
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 23:06 BST (UK)
my gran was never married  she had my late mother  with a unknown  father 
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Donnie H on Sunday 22 July 18 23:18 BST (UK)
There is a death on Scotlandspeople for a Margaret Legate Wardrope in 1953 in Stonehouse aged 32, note the different spelling of her name, sounds as if this could be her.
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Julie Ingram on Sunday 22 July 18 23:20 BST (UK)
Yes that could be  her 
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 23:20 BST (UK)
Good find Donnie  ;D
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Rosinish on Monday 23 July 18 01:04 BST (UK)
Quote from: CaroleW on Sunday 22 July 18 23:03 BST (UK)
So Wardrop was her maiden name - did she marry?  If so - her death would probably be under her married name

Hi Carole,

I know the death has now been found but...

In Scotland, if a female married, her maiden name as well as her married name would be recorded (on death, if known to the informant) which can be found with the same ref. no. (a great asset on SP) for us Scots  ;D

Annie
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 23 July 18 01:22 BST (UK)
Hi Annie

Thanks for that info.  I have always been somewhat envious at the amount of info on Scottish records compared to those here in England.  It certainly makes research a lot easier
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Rosinish on Monday 23 July 18 01:42 BST (UK)
Quote from: CaroleW on Monday 23 July 18 01:22 BST (UK)
Hi Annie

Thanks for that info.  I have always been somewhat envious at the amount of info on Scottish records compared to those here in England.  It certainly makes research a lot easier

Carole,

The 'married' reference I made was to the indexes however that's if you know both marital & maiden names or at least have an idea?

On the downside, unlike your English records, we don't have the maiden surname on our birth indexes!

Swings & roundabouts as knowing mother's m/s on births here in Scotland would be a huge help indeed!  ;D

Annie
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: anne_p on Monday 23 July 18 10:23 BST (UK)
Julie,
How certain are you that you located the correct birth cert  for this woman?
You say that according to SP she was born in Hillhead.
Where did you obtain the parent names?

Info suggested as birth:
WARDROP
MARGARET LEGGAT
F
1922
644/12 349
***Hillhead

It could be this one which looks more likely.
Birth is registered in Stonehouse.

WARDROPE
MARGARET LEGATE
F
1920
656/ 108
***Stonehouse

There are also 2 marriages showing for a woman/women with this name.
Impossible to tell if it's the same person or not.
Marriages took place 1950 Kirkintilloch and 1955 in Shettleston

The naming pattern may be at work here.
Could these women be descended from the marriage of:
Robert Wardrop and Margaret Leggat who married in Lesmahagow 1883 ?
Title: Re: Margaret leggate wardrop grave
Post by: Donnie H on Monday 23 July 18 11:27 BST (UK)
There was a previous thread on this family back in 2011, quite a long thread (15 pages) so it may be worth having a look at the information there.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=531373.msg3904007#msg3904007