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Title: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: WeeFram on Monday 15 August 22 18:28 BST (UK)

Hello,

Can anyone tell me what the dates are in the first section and what the other sections say if possible please?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 15 August 22 19:07 BST (UK)

Twentieth January 1895 for the first one.

Monica

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: jess5athome on Monday 15 August 22 19:13 BST (UK)

February 9th second one.....

Frank

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 15 August 22 19:16 BST (UK)

This is from a Scottish birth cert isn't it?

So first section, you have the details on the birth. The date and time and address where the birth took place.

Section on the right looks to be the details of when the birth was registered, 9 February, at Lochaline xxx (same word as on the left I think).

Then the registrar's name, Archibald xxxx.

The third section on the right looks to be details on the parents' marriage which is normally given on birth certs in 1855 and forever more from the early 1860s. Looking like 1886, 14 January xxxx, Inverness.

Monica

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: WeeFram on Monday 15 August 22 19:27 BST (UK)

Yes, Monica it's a Scottish birth cert. So she was born in Morven which is one of the words. Her parents were married on 12th Jan 1881 but that doesn't look like that on the cert? Lochaline looks correct.

Thank you Monica & Frank

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 15 August 22 20:01 BST (UK)

A little more...

Mary Ann's father was Donald?

The 1895 Valuation Rolls, at the time Mary Ann was born, show:

Donald Gillies
Tenant Occupier
HOUSE AND CROFT NO 9 BUNAVULLIN
MORVERN
1895
VR008900041-

I think Bunavullin is the place given on the birth reg for where Mary Ann's birth took place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnavoulin

Monica

PS: Marriage place Morar I think. This is where Mary Ann's mother, also Mary, came from? From
SP, just checking, the marriage registered in North Morar in 1881 as you mentioned (Mary McLennan and Donald Gillies).

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: Gadget on Monday 15 August 22 20:38 BST (UK)

I think the marriage place looks like Morven/Morvern, which would fit with Lochaline

add -just seen that you found the marriage, Monica, so it is Morar   :) (I've not been there for a few years - a lovely remote place)

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: WeeFram on Monday 15 August 22 20:54 BST (UK)

Thanks for that additional information Monica.
Mary Ann Gillies is my great grandmother  :)

Thanks Gadget

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 15 August 22 21:23 BST (UK)

You are in the same areas and names as I started with my Scottish line  ;D Who did Mary Ann Gillies marry? A MacDonald?

My ggg grandmother from Glenelg, Christy Gillies, married Angus MacDonald from Moidart. Not connected to you but just similar histories I am sure.

Added: She married Alexander McDonald and she died in Glasgow in 1879? See what I mean, parallel lives  ;)

Monica

Title: Re: Birth Register Deciphering
Post by: WeeFram on Monday 15 August 22 21:44 BST (UK)

Mary Ann Gillies married my great grandfather Alexander MacDonald in Alexandria in 1924 and she died in Glasgow in 1979. Her father Donald Gillies remarries to a Mary Ann MacPherson in 1913 after Mary McLellan Gillies dies in 1899 in Morven.

Alexander's family are from South Uist

I haven't quite worked it back through the ages as there are sooooo many MacDonald's  ::) lol

I will keep an eye out for a Christy Gillies & Angus MacDonald on my searches  :) haha

Edit

Just found a census entry where Christy is listed as a sibling of Donald