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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Lanarkshire => Topic started by: Scottish007 on Monday 14 April 25 13:27 BST (UK)
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I need some help in finding information about the early years of my great-grandmother, Margaret Baird Goldie.
She was born on 1st January 1920 at the Maternity Hospital in Glasgow. She was an illegitimate daughter of Mary Goldie who registered her on the 12th February 1920. Mary Goldie was living at 19 Portland Street. I know from Mary Goldie's poor law record in 1919 that her father was Thomas Scott Ferries.
She was baptised in St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral. This is the transcribed record:
Margaret, illeg Child of Mary Goldie and
born the 1st day of January, 1920, was baptised by me on this day 29th March, 1920
X stranger
John McQuillan
Sponsors
Jo Mary Johnstone and
By the 1921 Census she was living at 25 Portland Street:
Henry Burns, Head, 58yrs -mos, Male, Married, born Glasgow, Driller for Wallace and Sons Agricultural Implement Makers, Dependent Children None
Maggie Burns, Wife, 57yrs -mos, Female, Married, born Glasgow, House Duties
Margaret Baird, Foster Daughter, 1yrs 7mos, Female, Before Age, born Glasgow
I would like to find out more information about the Burns family as my family did not know about them until the 1921 Census was released.
At some point after 1921 Margaret Baird Goldie was moved to Kirkintilloch where she stayed with Margaret McPhee, m.s. Baird.
There is no family relation between Mary Goldie and Margaret Baird/McPhee, yet my great-grandmother was named Margaret Baird Goldie from birth but was not given to Margaret/Baird McPhee straight away and was minimum two years before being handed to the McPhee's.
I know legal adoptions were after 1930 but would there be any sort of record available that could provide any more information on what happened. Mary Goldie was a Roman Catholic. She also had another daughter, Janet Baird Morrison Goldie, in 1921. Both sisters were given to Margaret Baird/McPhee.
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1871 census, Glasgow; Charles Mulholland, 67; brother James, 60; daughter Rose Burns, 36; all born Ireland; and Margaret Burns, niece and Henry Burns, nephew, both born Glasgow.
Birth of Henry Burns, mother's maiden surname Mulholland, in Glasgow High Church in 1864.
Two possible marriages of Henry Burns to a Margaret
- to Margaret Curran, Hamilton, 1888. Margaret Curran or Burns, 70, died in Hamilton in 1939 so probably not the one you are looking for.
- to Margaret Arthur or O'Donald in Dennistoun, 1903
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To add to Forfarian's post the 1881 census.