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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Monday 16 April 12 15:55 BST (UK)  »
Oh my gosh, yes!  I had never noticed that "Rofs" was a female.  Thank you for pointing that out.  And you could be right about the name being Rosa.  I will definitely look into that.
Zoe 

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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Monday 16 April 12 13:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Dod, thank you for that great information!  I'll certainly look through both possibilities!  My fingers are crossed.  Thank you!

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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Monday 16 April 12 02:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi Norrie.  I've tried looking for a death certificate for Mary Ann and also Rachel (at Scotlandspeople) but I can't seem to find anything so far.  I'll try to see if James is related to my great-grandfather William.  But my great-grandfather William Murray was brought up in Dunfermline.  That, I am sure of.  It's even on his tombstone.  But on any census, he always claimed to have been born in Ireland but was brought up in Dunfermline, Scotland.  The problem with finding his parents lie in the discrepancy of his birth year.  On his tombstone, it says 1840 but on censuses when he was alive (in Montreal), he said he was born in 1844 like his (Canadian) wife.  And if I go by the census in Dunfermline in 1851, they say he was 12, which would have made his birth year 1839 (if it's really him).  But sometimes I wonder if he even knew his own birth year.  I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me.  Thank you so much for your help.  I will see if I can find anything with the information that you found for me.  Thank you so much.

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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Sunday 15 April 12 18:43 BST (UK)  »
Norrie, may I ask one more question?  I noticed that both Mary Ann and Rachel (above) are widowed.  One carries her maiden name (Murray) and the other carries her married name.  But both of them named their children "Murray" as the children's surname.  Was/is that common in Scotland to use the maiden name for the children's surname?

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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Sunday 15 April 12 15:54 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much, Norrie.  That will give me much more to work on.  I appreciate your help. 

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Fife / Re: MIs in DUNFERMLINE Lays Road Cemetery
« on: Sunday 15 April 12 03:19 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I am looking for my ancestors and they are very hard to find.  They lived in Dunfermline Scotland when his wife died.  My ancestor's last name is Murray but his first name is hard to read on the census.  I read it as Rofs (or Ross?).  His wife died between the years 1844 and 1851.  I do not know her name and because of that, I cannot find any records of any kind since the husband appears on a census only once in 1851.  (I believe they were from Ireland originally).  One of the sons' name was William (my great grandfather) who came to Canada in the mid-1860's.  I know this is grasping at straws but would you have a record for a woman who was married to a Murray who died in Dunfermline, Scotland between the years 1844 and 1851?  If she was her husband's age, she would have been born around 1815 +/- a few years. 

- Woman died between 1844 and 1851.  Married name was Murray.   
- She was born around 1815 +/- a few years
- Husband's last name was Murray.  First name maybe Rofs or Ross but not sure.
- Had a son named William (Murray) who was born around 1840.  There may be more children.

I know that this is all very vague but it's all I have.  If you have any information about this family, please let me know.  It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much.
Zoe

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