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Can anyone pinpoint please the couples' movements in mid 1860s especially the marriage date and location of Andrew born Scotland and May born Canada ?
1880 census and FreeBMD show a daughter Mary May born 1865 in London, but 1880 census and many Ancestry trees suggest a daughter Ellen born c1860 Pennsylvania - though 1861 Canadian census shows single May Finlayson living in birthplace Châteauguay.
Have found much about them and their issue subsequent to marriage in censuses etc as well as newspaper articles about his eventual suicide and her inheritance of brother's fortune but their marriage date and location have eluded me.
Michael.
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Mary May Drynan mmn Finlayson was born Sept qtr 1865 - St Martin in the Fields
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Hi Carole,
I have those details thank you.
Michael.
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Details posted to help others looking at post
Tree on Ancestry shows she had a son & 4 daughters with Andrew before she then married Matthew Rowe in 1908.
Daughter Martha Agnes b 1868 Montreal died 1915
Ella 1870 Pennsylvania - died 1953
Andrew Alexander 1870 - ??
Jeanette 1875-1953
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Family Search Tree-
Andrew: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCYX-66X
May: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRGL-SRB
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Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133927128/andrew-drynan
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1880 ages make no sense but are shown below as per 1880 census image
Andrew & May are both 38. Andrew was bap 2.11.1837 so was 42 at the time of the 1880 census
Mary May 25 - May would have 13 when she gave birth?? Mary was actually 15
Martha A 22
Ellen 20
Jeanette 16
Andrew 18
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Andrew Drynan 25 Farmer
Mrs Drynan 24 wife
Mary Drynan infant
departed Liverpool and arrived Canada May 1867 on the ship Peruvian.
Ancestry has transcribed the name as Dryden.
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Daughter Martha Agnes Drynan - born 23 April 1868 - baptised 24 th May 1868 Presbyterian Calvin.
Montreal. Quebec.
Father Andrew Drynan and his wife Mary Finlayson.
Sandra
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April 5 1864 at Methodist New Connection Montreal
Andrew Draynon of the Fusilier Guards and Mary Finlayson of this city were united in holy matrimony
by power of licence , this the 8th day of April 1864.
Ancestry has transcribed his name as Andrew Gagnan.
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FindMyPast has a short service record for an Andrew Drynan , born 1841 Penningham , Newton Stewart, who served in Canada 20 Dec 1861 to 10 Oct 1864 with the Scots Guards. He is on the 1861 Army Index as Andrew Drynan private 388 3rd Foot Guards , Scots Fusiliers.
Added - enlisted 20 Oct 1858 ( noted as under age ) and discharged 7 Jul 1865.
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What a cornucopia of information and sources you have found for me! Thank you all very much.
I am off to my library now to look at the FindMyPast Army record.
I have just found a copy of Voyage and Journey of the 2nd Batt. Scots Fusilier Guards: from Southampton to Montreal, during the winter of 1861-2 (http://Voyage and Journey of the 2nd Batt. Scots Fusilier Guards: from Southampton to Montreal, during the winter of 1861-2) written by a soldier of the regiment on Archive.org - so a day of fascinating reading ahead. :)
Thanks again. Michael.