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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Monday 23 January 12 21:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

Not sure where to start, this James Dyce is so complicated... First of all, I am also on the "Dyce Ok, am way confused" thread, so I saw that gemachin responded to you... This gemachin helped me a long time ago, so when I had a hunch that maybe that Alexander could be James' father, I wrote to her and she told me the same thing she told you: no way.....

But... I think that he MAY be the same person... Yes, Meaford is in Canada, and he came here in his 30s and married and had 3 kids as she says... but.... he was in Scotland at the time that James was born, and if you look at the 1841 census, where James is living with the Bannermans in Strichen, he is listed, along with his brother as an ag. lab., working on a farm in Rathen, only 7 kilometers from where James is living... and 1838 when James was born would make him 20, a very good baby-making age... (pure speculation, but...) so I have recently started thinking that this may indeed be the right Alexander...

So I'd like to know how exactly you came to find out that Alexander was the Alexander b. 1816 d. 1887? Do you know this for certain, or?

Ashley

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Saturday 14 January 12 18:01 GMT (UK)  »
Ya, I found them on freecen too, had just never looked at the address part of it, now I see where you got the "entryhead" word.... On the 1841 census the address is listed as Blackmoss.
I agree, we really need Barbara to confirm, bit busy today, but will send her a message in the next few days if she doen't come back to this board.... Don't want to bug her, but she seems to know much more than I do, and I'd love to hear what she's got....

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South Africa / Re: Help please-Immigration Scot./Eng. to S.A.
« on: Saturday 14 January 12 16:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you :)
I have actually found the marriage and deaths records, so now I am really focused on finding immigration records, my James Dyce travelled from Scotland to S.A. probably thru England, so I am looking for passenger records, or any records of people getting on ships or off between the years of 1851 and 1862, but most records I have found are British and do not cover those specific years, so hoping for any S.A. records....

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Saturday 14 January 12 15:54 GMT (UK)  »
Ok, well until you mentioned that Ann's father was named Alexander,  I had searched for the Birnies in Aberdeenshire, but wasn't sure which family was hers... So if you are sure that her father's name is Alexander, then yes, I am certain that that family you mentioned is the right one, they are found on both the 1841 and 1851 censuses:
Alexander 44/55
Barbara 40/52
Thomas 14/not on 1851 census
Ann 5/15
William 3/13
But you mentiond that the family was "also living at Entryhead".... where do you see that? I'm not seeing that anywhere on the censuses, all I see is that they are living in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, like Barbara said....

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Friday 13 January 12 02:47 GMT (UK)  »
Link to marriage record transcription for James Dyce m Ann Birnie

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http://www.genealogyworld.net/ellen/opr/Grahamstown-1560913-Item10.htm

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 23:53 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry, I meant how James is related to the Bannermans...

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Crichton Family
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 23:50 GMT (UK)  »
Actually, I hadn't searched Ann's parents yet, so thanks for that info, ha ha. I am telling you, I have searched every website I can think of and I cannot find an Alexander Dyce that fits the bill, it's been very frustrating... Tried to think of every reason a father would abandon his child, like death, mental illness etc... searched birth records, death records, immigration records, and nothing...
The only option I think is to figure out exactly how James is related, and then hope that it can be connected to his parents... I have many James and Alexanders in my own line but cannot find any connection....

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Cavan / Re: Mary Anne Carolan
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 22:05 GMT (UK)  »
Ya, I may have gotten it from there, bought credits at some point... Can't afford to buy more just to see maybes though....

I spent so many hours searching the Canadian passenger records, they are un indexed, had to read page by page of handwritten lists, and found nothing..

So, in the end, I can't be sure of any birth record, can't be sure of any census, can't find any immigration records, and any info I have from when she was already in Canada tells me nothing of her time/family in Ireland/Scotland...
Hopefully the cert will lead me in the right direction...

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Cavan / Re: Mary Anne Carolan
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 21:48 GMT (UK)  »
Would you have any idea how people got from Ireland to Scotland in those days? There probably aren't too many records I would guess...

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