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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Topic started by: garlands on Friday 07 June 19 10:06 BST (UK)
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Are there any Quaker BMD records pre-1930 available on-line?
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Hi ,
Scottish BMD's are available on Scotlandspeople(with the normal restrictions on modern certificates)-
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/search-our-records
http://www.genguide.co.uk/source/Quaker-Digests-The-Religious-Society-of-FriendsNonconformists/29/
The National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh (NRS) holds a large collection of over 200 documents of all kinds relating to Quakers in Scotland, including birth, marriage and burial records up the 1960s.
https://www.glasgowquakers.org/http-www-glasgowquakers-org-for-members-and-attendees-news/were-your-ancestors-quakers-in-scotland-resources-for-tracing-your-family-history
ev
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Many thanks for that info. I shall dig around to see if I can find what I want.
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Hi,
You can search Scottish Quaker Births 1647-1874, Marriages 1656-1875 and Deaths 1667-1878 on www.scottishindexes.com
Emma
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Many thanks. Unfortunately, they're all too early for me! I'm guessing the birth I'm seeking was probably ca 1920, and no earlier than 1890.
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Many thanks. Unfortunately, they're all too early for me! I'm guessing the birth I'm seeking was probably ca 1920, and no earlier than 1890.
If they were born between 1890 and 1920 in Scotland, you can get the birth certificate at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
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Can I search that site, or do I have to know which certificate I want?
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The indexes are free to search , but you have to register with Scotlandspeople..
The newly available records consist of 98,554 Scottish births in 1918, 38,271 marriages in 1943 and 63,311 deaths in 1968.
These are the latest records that are available to view online(for a small fee) , outwith those dates a certificate would need to be ordered(£12 ?).
ev
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If you want to give a name I'm sure there will be many willing to help :)
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Thank you.
The information I have is very vague. I know people are very kind, and I don't want to waste their time chasing phantoms. All I know for certain is that the person I seek is Mary CARROLL, and that she was in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, in May 1939 (a lead which I am pursuing separately). Also, she stayed in a London guest house, but not for long enough to have been recorded in the 1939 Register.
Hearsay has it that she was from a Scottish, Quaker, family and that she was in London with her sister (name unknown). My guess is that she was aged between 18 and 45, and probably towards the lower end of that range.
I should appreciate any help, but the whole thing is so nebulous that it's probably a waste of time.
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You will have a hard task even searching the Index on Scotlands people as there are a number of pages for Mary Carrol born in Scotland within your time frame.
Have you any idea at all which part of Scotland she was born in? This would narrow the search.
Dorrie
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No, I'm afraid that's all I have. I'm hoping that Queen Charlotte's Hospital will be able to provide some more details, but that's going to take time. Because of the '100-year' rule, there are various identification 'hoops' which must be jumped through before they can release any information. I guess that will take a good couple of weeks, so I was hoping to short-circuit the process, but in the face of so many Mary CARROLLS that's obviously a lost cause, but thanks for your interest.