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Thank you, Gadget.  Some have a single stroke through and the age can be read quite easily , some are not crossed at all and the rest are 'St Andrew' crossed with no hope of knowing the age - mine fall into that category!

Dear Annette

Wow! Some of this I have but I will have to widen my search and include siblings etc.for the extra information available.  There is a lot to think about here.  Thank you very much for the trouble you, and Rosie, have gone to and thank you Rosie for the extra info re Margaret Hay's maiden name.  Robert's name still niggles me - why would he put it on a marriage cert?  Because he could?

PS  I've just received an email from My Heritage stating that the enclosed photo is of my grandfather (mother's side) 1849 - 1923.  My grandfather died in 1918 in France and the photo is definitely not of him!
We have rain forecast over the week-end - I know what I'll be doing!

Have a great weekend

banksiapat

I have looked at those previously, Rosie but this John Lawson's father is Robert not Peter. I have seen the other tree showing Peter as his father but no proof to back it up.  If possible I want proof (certificate, census printout etc) for anyone going on my tree.  My daughter is doing another tree and discovered an entry that was based on family hearsay.  However it wasn't the correct person and she rectified that but even now, years later, she finds the incorrect data popping up all over the place! 

I'm probably being very naive in hoping I can authenticate everyone!

Thanks for your interested help.

banksiapat

Hi All
I wondered whether anyone else is tracing this family?
Peter Lawson m to Elizabeth Vesey13/12/1899, Partick, Glasgow, Scotland
John Lawson (his father) m Ann Watt, 31/12/1877, Partick, Glasgow, Scotland
Robert Lawson (his grandfather) m Margaret McKay? Kay? Hay?

I'm finding it difficult to trace either the correct Robert or the correct Margaret (shown as deceased on John Lawson"s marriage certificate).  I wondered whether he  was born elsewhere in Scotland, not in Glasgow.  I can find many Robert Lawsons but not married to Margaret McKay.

No difficulties on the female side of the family they are well documented but I wanted to pursue the direct line of Lawsons if possible. 

Thanks for any information you can share.

Kind regards to all,

Banksiapat
                                                                           

Trish
The witnesses to John and Ann's Marriage were John Rankin and M(?) Stewart.

Thanks