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Stirlingshire / Re: Formans in Stirling
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 23:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, Thanks for the suggestion Rob. Unfortunately  Mori couldn't help nor could the Stirling Council archive services. It doesn't look as if we will ever find out what happened to Archibald Forman and his wife Elizabeth Craig.

The property mentioned in my first message was in Broad Street, Stirling and was owned by Elizabeth Craig and inherited by her son when she died via an inquest held on 10 April 1816.

 This property in Broad Street was originally owned by a William Cheyne music master and his wife Catherine Nicoll. It was assigned to them on 30 August 1726.  Elizabeth Craig inherited the property on the 24 November 1789 but we haven't been able to locate the sasine dealing with the transfer of the property in 1789 or any link with the family of William Cheyne  or Catherine Nicoll.

However, we have been able to find out more about the Forman ancestry back to the late 1500s thanks to a chapter in a book published by a distant relative in Australia, the title of the chapter is  "The Forman family of Logie Parish". It is amazing what you can find out with internet searches!

Wendolene

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Wexford / Re: Leggett / Leggit family in Wexford
« on: Saturday 29 January 11 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Sandra, Do you have any further details DOB etc. of your John Leggett? It could possibly be the same John that we are trying to find more about although some dates don't match.

His daughter Jane Leggett was christened on 4 July 1852 and had at least two siblings Robert who was recorded as being christened on 17 August 1852 and Ann christened on 17 August 1853. There is an obvious conflict between the 'christening' dates of Robert and Jane.  It seems certain that this Robert was born before Jane, Ann was probably also born before Jane as Robert and Anns christening records state that they were 'Received into the Church of Ireland' on the dates recorded in the christening registers, which implies they were christened before in a different church.

The records for all three state that they are the children of John Leggit, a steward who was residing at Ballycomclone and Jane his wife. Unfortunately the maiden name of Jane is not recorded.

One of the witnesses to daughter Jane Leggetts marriage in 1875 was a Thomas Leggett so possibly he is also a sibling of Jane.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Formans in Stirling
« on: Sunday 12 December 10 10:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

I have now found that the Central Scotland Family History Society publishes some excellent handbooks listing burials in Stirling and other parishes up to 1874. There are quite a few members of the Forman family listed in the Stirling and Logie parishes but unfortunately not Archibald and Elizabeth who perhaps are buried in a family lair.

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Wexford / Re: Leggett / Leggit family in Wexford
« on: Sunday 12 December 10 09:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Elizabeth. I realise now that I put the likely date (1830) of John and Jane Leggetts marriage much too early as they would have been married for 22 years before they had Jane and also a daughter Anne a year or so later in 1853! I think I should have said about 1850. There were at least two families with a John Legget as father, one was born around 1820 and died in 1875, he is not the one I am looking for - wrong occupation etc.. There were also at least two Thomas Leggetts in the area, the one you mention and another who is listed in the 1901 census as being born in Co. Wexford about 1854, could he be a brother of Janes?  One of the witnesses to Jane Leggets marriage in Castleknock in 1875 was a Thomas Leggett.

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Wexford / Leggett / Leggit family in Wexford
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, I am looking for the marriage of John and Jane Leggett around about 1830.  They had a daughter Jane who was christened on 4 July 1852 in  the Church of Ireland, Parish of Kiltennell, the surname is recorded as Leggit in that document but it is assumed to be the right family. He is recorded as being a Land Steward of Ballycomclone when Jane was christened. He was also recorded as being a Land Steward when his daughter Jane was married in Castleknock on 16 July 1875. Any help much appreciated.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Formans in Stirling
« on: Thursday 28 October 10 12:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I can now cofirm that Archibald Forman and Elizabeth Craig had a son, also called Archibald, who moved to London in his early 20s and married Catherine Berry in 1816. This answers my original question. Archibald and Elizabeth also had another son Robert Grant who was baptised in 1794.

Many of the birth, marriage and death records at that time are not available. Does anyone know of a record of burials in Stirling around that time that might give us more information on Archibald and Elizabeths and their family history - we know that Elizabeth was deceased by April 1816.

Wendolene

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Dublin / Re: John Leggett
« on: Friday 22 October 10 22:00 BST (UK)  »
That agrees with the dates I have for their first two children, I wasn't sure if Mary was born in Ireland. I assume I have to find Janes birth certificate as the easiest way of finding her mothers names.

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Dublin / Re: John Leggett
« on: Friday 22 October 10 19:30 BST (UK)  »
Hello Shane, the Census records only state she was born in Ireland in 1856. As far as I know her first child Thomas Edwin Cock was born in Ireland in 1876, Mary Jane in 1878 possibly in Ireland and the others in Southampton, Hants.

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Dublin / Re: John Leggett
« on: Friday 22 October 10 19:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your help. Jane was married in Castleknock according to the Rites and ceremonies of the Church of Ireland so I guess Robert could well be a sibling of Janes. I wonder where Thomas Leggett fits in? The copy I obtained of Janes marriage certificate is superbly hand written!

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