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Scotland / Re: Optimise Scotlandspeople searches
« on: Friday 28 April 06 09:38 BST (UK)  »
sometimes it helps with reading the images to download, enlarge and highlight in in microsoft document imaging. highlighting often makes the writing clearer.  If it is very faint clicking 'auto correct' often makes it a little darker.  Also try having a look at how the writer has formed letters in other known words.

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Dunbartonshire / Re: Campbell Bonhill
« on: Sunday 26 February 06 20:02 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that, but it was me that put them there!  It is nice to know that some folk are reading them though

Linds

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Northamptonshire Lookup Requests / Re: Did David Hubbard marry Sarah or Susannah or both?
« on: Wednesday 12 October 05 11:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi

You might like to know that one of the Hubbard daughters (Hannah) married Thomas Wadwell who confusingly became John Wadwell in later census records.  Reason to believe that David's wife Suzannah, susan, sarah was related to the Wadwells possibly on her mother's side.

I have contact with descendents of this couple. Get in touch

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Perthshire / McCallum Clifton, Tyndrum Killin Parish )OPR 1814 lookup if possible
« on: Thursday 06 October 05 19:24 BST (UK)  »
I have a Donald McCallum who gives his birthplace in the 1851 census for Luss, Dunbartonshire (Inshlonaig Island) as Clifton.  After great difficulty i discovered Clifton is right next to Tyndrum and was once a sizeable village due mainly to the lead mines and the 'gold rush' which Tyndrum is famous for.  The lead mine closed in 1829. 

Looking at OPR listing for Killin Parish there was a Donald McCallum born 1814 to a Duncan McCallum and a Mary Brodie.  However I need to know if this was in Clifton.  The original OPR listing may say where in Killin this birth took place.  Donald died between 1851 and 1860 in either Luss or Bonhill.  His death is not registered.  I also need a look up in OPR burial/mort cloth records for these areas as there might be something there.

Linda

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Lanarkshire / Re: Annie Burns born abt 1866 Bonhill
« on: Wednesday 05 October 05 19:57 BST (UK)  »
Wow! Thanks William - this birth does not appear to be formally registered.  Is this an LDS source?  I have not heard of this particular one, however I am only just starting to search what is not on the internet or standard registration/OPRs.

Linda

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Armagh / Henry McCawley b. Armagh abt 1829
« on: Monday 03 October 05 19:02 BST (UK)  »
Has anyone any information about the McCawley family in Armagh?  Henry McCawley states in the 1861 census for Easington, Durham that he was born in Armagh.  Other census say just Ireland.  His parents are given in his death record as James McCawley and Mary Ann Johnston.  The naming of his children appears to follow the 'scottish naming system'  ie eldest son after paternal gfather, eldest daughter after maternal gm. etc.  so they could have been 'scots irish'.  His father James is stated as a railway labourer on Henry's wedding certificate.  The family moved before 1869 to Dalziel/Dalserf in Lanark Scotland.  There was another two McCawley families in the area at this time - male senior members all stated born Ireland.  Suspect these are relatives of some sort.

Any leads would be brilliant.  The spelling might be different, although  McCawley is a fairly unusual variant

Linda

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Northamptonshire / Re: Family Wadwell
« on: Monday 03 October 05 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Susie

Found the website - there are a lot of free resources as well.  I did not know of this one!  I have ordered the marriage index and the 1841 census - I should start getting somewhere!

What part of Scotland are you researching?  I have a number of resources from Lanark and Dunbartonshire and I live in Fife.  Maybe I could help you out!

Have you also tried www.genesconnected.co.uk ?  It only costs a few pounds to register and I have found loads of contacts there.  They have a chat bit too.

There are Wadwells in Australia as well.  They actually appear to have descended from just one family who came from the Kings Cliffe area (there are hundreds - many more than left in the 'old country')

The other side of my family is looking for a John McCallum born abt 1920 in North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland who was in the Australian Airforce and 'disappeared' about 1945.  It is known that he had bought land near Sidney, and it was recently found that he had been cited as the 'other man' in a divorce case in 1945/6.  He was living with a woman he called his wife (his real wife was in Scotland they never divorced) about 1950.  It is thought he spent some time in Tasmania.
I know it is a common name and Australia is a BIG place, but if you come accross anything in your research 'at home' so to speak let me know.

Regards Linda

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Fife / Re: poor relief : Rosyth and Inverkeithing
« on: Monday 03 October 05 00:07 BST (UK)  »
Yeh - these brick walls are sent to try us, but that is what makes family history fun.  The thrill when you break through one!

Linda

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Northamptonshire / Re: Family Wadwell
« on: Sunday 02 October 05 14:24 BST (UK)  »
Wow!  That looks like it Susie!  Thanks.

I have not heard of that particular resource - is it on line?  I am in Scotland so researching down south is a bit of a problem without a holiday!

Linda

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