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Surrey / Re: Alexander Sinclair who wed Caroline Christmas
« on: Tuesday 29 October 13 14:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, Margp

I don't know how I ended up on the Surrey board when I'm making enquiries about Sussex. Apologies all round. It must have been the fault of my typing finger. Maybe the moderator will kindly move this. I'd do an embarrassed smilie but I can' t seem to get them to work either.
 
 However, some nice points you make, Marg. Yes, Alexander did have brothers George (elder) and David (younger). His third and youngest brother was James. I've found out that Alex's son George's middle name is James, and son Alexander's middle name is John - possibly for Caroline's father John.

Thanks for the idea about apprenticeship. I'll research that!

Jim

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Surrey / Re: Alexander Sinclair who wed Caroline Christmas
« on: Monday 28 October 13 22:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi. Margp

I've got Alexander's birth details, thanks. :) I'm looking for confirmation that the man in Sussex is the one I'm after.
Why can't GRO make their records available on-line like GROscotland does? Through ScotlandsPeople  it's so simple and immediate.

Regards
Jim

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Surrey / Re: Alexander Sinclair who wed Caroline Christmas
« on: Monday 28 October 13 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Margp

I'm really grateful for the interest shown in this one.

I know that some of the clan departed for Canada, but I don't think that this Alexr S did. The one I'm looking for was born in Leslie, Fife. I'm afraid Islay is on the other side of Scotland.

However, thank you for the info on the deaths of Caroline and Alexander at Rye. I suspected that they died round about these dates because they don't show up on the 1881 census.
I wish that the English BMDs were as available as some other countries are.

Jim

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Surrey / Re: Alexander Sinclair who wed Caroline Christmas
« on: Monday 28 October 13 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, Rosie and Shaun
Thank you both for your interest. :)

Yes, Rosie, I have him on the 1861 census. He was on the 1841 at Pump Street, 1861 at 32 Church Square and 1871 at 31 Church Square.

The Gazette article is very interesting, Shaun. It's definitely the Alexander I'm looking for. His son, another Alexander John Sinclair, wasn't born until 1828 and became a millwright. The partnership appears to have been dissolved two weeks or so before Alexander's marriage to Caroline. It certainly indicates that he was resident in Rye for quite some time before that.

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Surrey / Alexander Sinclair who wed Caroline Christmas
« on: Sunday 27 October 13 23:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I'm looking for the roots of Alexander Sinclair, a tailor who lived at Pump Street and Church Square, Rye, Sussex. He was born in Scotland circa 1804 and had six children, whom I can trace, by Caroline Christmas who was born in 1806 in Rye. They were married in 1827.
I think he was the third son of Alexander Sinclair and Agnes Davidson of Leslie, Fife. Can anyone confirm this? :-\  He seems to have disappeared off the face of Scotland. As far as I can tell, no marriage, death or census records show him there.
Any clue, please?
Jim

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Fife / Re: Cupar Parish Church MIs
« on: Tuesday 01 October 13 16:24 BST (UK)  »
Hello, Norrie
 Thanks for the photos. I have the Oliver Howie / Agnes Clark family on one of my branches. Oliver was a grandson of John Howy and Jean Durie/ Dobie whom I'm trying to sort out.
Just for the record, their son George died 03 Jan 1867 at Ceres and daughter Elizabeth died 02 Dec 1868. As far as I can tell there were ten children. The dates on the stone were useful, thanks.
 As for George Howie and Agnes Younger, and George's parents John H and Margaret Petrie, I've stumbled across them a few times but haven't been able to link them with my tree. There appear to be twelve children of John and Margaret.
Given the large number of Howies from Ceres, I'm surprised that there are only two Howie headstones.
I'm grateful to you
Jim

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Fife / Re: Ann Belfrage/ Margaret Storrar, Fife
« on: Friday 13 April 12 13:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi, Norrie

My thanks again for looking.
I got the information from the FFHS disk, but their publications don't cover Strathmiglo Cemetery MIs, unfortunately.
Hopefully something will turn up.

Jim

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Fife / Re: Ann Belfrage/ Margaret Storrar, Fife
« on: Thursday 12 April 12 17:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi, Stuart
I received your e-mail dated 9 April, thanks, if that's the one you're referring to.
Just to let anyone who is following this thread, or the Christian Belfrage one, know what's going on I'll reproduce a bit of what I wrote to you.

"I just found the following facts from the 1841 census for Strathmiglo North West, -  Nether Urquhart, I think.
 
Richard Storrar , age 50, Proprietor, living with his wife Helen Young and their two children, Richard and David.
Alongside them in another property, same address are:-
Margaret Storrar, age 40, Independent and Mary Storrar, age 30, Independent.
 
Obviously they're his sisters who are living together and unmarried,
Unfortunately, the 1841 doesn't give marital status but I doubt that those times would have allowed Margaret to leave her husband and family. The social stigma would have been too great.
By the 1851 census Margaret had died, June 1845, and Mary died in August 1848.
 
So, to my mind, we're looking for another Margaret Storrar."

Pinning down the 'Margaret Storrar from Cash, Strathmiglo, died 1838' would solve it.

It's a bit of a bind having to chop a branch off, especially if you've done a lot of work on it. Sorry! :-[

Thanks again too to NorrieG for his help.  :)

Keep looking,

Jim



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Fife / Re: Ann Belfrage/ Margaret Storrar, Fife
« on: Saturday 07 April 12 14:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi, NorrieG,

That's very kind and helpful, thank you. It's given me a bit more to mull over.

You wouldn't by any chance have some information on the other Margaret Storrar, would you?
It's the one "Margaret Storrar of Cash, Strathmiglo died 1838 aged 52", to see if there's any more detailed information on the headstone, if there is one.
The husband of Margaret, John Belfrage, died aged 80 in 1866 in hospital in Edinburgh so I don't think there would be a memorial to him at Strathmiglo - but you never know.

You're a pal. Thanks again :)

Jim

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