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Title: Can't make out name.
Post by: heatherrr on Monday 25 November 19 22:07 GMT (UK)
Looking at the death certificate for a Margaret Ross in 1880 in Banffshire, I just can't seem to make out the name of her son in law who signed it.
Any ideas?
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 25 November 19 22:08 GMT (UK)
Menzies?

Surname looks like selcisstoni  is that a name?  Doesn’t really go with Menzies
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: heatherrr on Monday 25 November 19 22:11 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Mckha489 on Monday 25 November 19 22:08 GMT (UK)
Menzies?

Surname looks like selcisstoni  is that a name?  Doesn’t really go with Menzies

That's what I was thinking the surname looked like too. I'll maybe need to do a bit more digging and see if it fits.
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Girl Guide on Monday 25 November 19 22:36 GMT (UK)
You could attack this from a different direction.  If he was her son in law then one supposes that he married Margaret's daughter or one of them if she had more than one daughter.

Look for the marriages of Margaret's daughter(s).
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 25 November 19 23:26 GMT (UK)
I wonder if the name is Italian,many Italians settled in Scotland as well as other parts of the U.K.
Other R. C posters have made good suggestions re solving the puzzle.
Viktoria.
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: heatherrr on Monday 25 November 19 23:28 GMT (UK)
Thanks all, I will try and piece together more parts of their family and see if anything comes up.  :)
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Jool on Monday 25 November 19 23:31 GMT (UK)
Another possibility - Magnus  :-\
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 00:09 GMT (UK)
I was thinking that the surname might begin with a G rather than an S.

I've dome a quick trawl (using S and G with various asterisks)  on SP but so far haven't found anything that jumps out.

Gadget

Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 26 November 19 01:49 GMT (UK)
I would also do as mentioned, track the daughter(s) through census' for a possible timeline for marriage(s).

Do you have the names/dates of all children?

Can you also confirm Ross as the married name or maiden name?

The initial of the surname of the Son-in-Law does not look like the 'S' in his title.

It may be, he signed & the Registrar filled in his title?

Is it possible to post a wider image for letter comparison?

Annie
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 02:30 GMT (UK)
Did she have a daughter, Catherine, b. circa 1834?

There's an interesting household in Buckie on the 1881

Seatown, Rathven
Marquis Silverstone, 35, tailor employing 1 boy, b. Prussia
Catherine, wife, 47, b. Buckie

(Note - on SP indexed as Silverstine but looks like Silverstoni - possibly original ending was stein)

Also same place in 1901

Margaret's address on the DC was Seatown


Gadget
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 02:32 GMT (UK)
Snip from the 1881:

Add - can only find them on the 1881, 1891 and 1901.

Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 02:46 GMT (UK)
Proof, I think:

Margaret Silverstine died Sept 1909, Seatown Buckie
2nd marriage to Marquis Silverstine, tailor.
Parents - Thomas Ross, coachman and Margaret Ross. Both deceased. (This fits with Margaret's DC)

Gadget
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: heatherrr on Tuesday 26 November 19 16:33 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 02:46 GMT (UK)
Proof, I think:

Margaret Silverstine died Sept 1909, Seatown Buckie
2nd marriage to Marquis Silverstine, tailor.
Parents - Thomas Ross, coachman and Margaret Ross. Both deceased. (This fits with Margaret's DC)

Gadget

Thankyou so much. Off to do more investigating!
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 16:52 GMT (UK)
I have Catherine's DC . If you'd like a copy, send me e-mail address in a PM  :)
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Rosinish on Tuesday 26 November 19 21:14 GMT (UK)
Well done Gadget!  ;)

Annie
Title: Re: Can't make out name.
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 26 November 19 21:26 GMT (UK)
Thank you , Annie.  I like a puzzle  ;D