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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Rather simple BMD index question re:marriage
« on: Sunday 25 August 13 14:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Stan,

So that means if I look at the original index and the husband has 'Vol 5 Page 429' and the (not very likely looking now...) Wife has 'Vol 5 Page 435', I can stop trying to shoehorn the two of them together?

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Family History Beginners Board / Rather simple BMD index question re:marriage
« on: Sunday 25 August 13 14:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello all,

With the BMD Index for England and Wales (marriage), if I have a reference to volume and page number eg Volume 5 Page 429 for the husband, does it follow that the wife MUST have the same reference?

Thanks

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Parish of Kiltearn, Ross-shire, Scotland
« on: Sunday 25 August 13 14:03 BST (UK)  »
Might not be much help, but this could relate to a farm, rather than a hamlet/village etc, which might be why it's proving difficult to trace...

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Tuesday 16 April 13 21:17 BST (UK)  »
portybelle, thank you so much for taking the time to try and help a stranger who was stuck.

I'm still stuck, but I'm further forward, if that makes sense! Sometimes it's just as important to rule things out as in.  :)  (PM sent by the way...)

Forfarian, that makes sense....

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Monday 15 April 13 22:46 BST (UK)  »
I'm just searching back through the years...and just got that. Thanks!!
The 12 year old daughter of his Landlord eventually became his wife, and my great grandmother.

I am finding the next step hard going......the 1891 Census.

It is family lore that the Father, the William at the head of this topic, was a sailor who died young, possibly after drowning on a boat on the Tay. A fire onboard is mentioned too....but of course this could be nothing more than unhelpful wild conjecture.

It could of course also mean that as a 12 year old himself, William, who I am lookiing for on the 1891 census, is the same William Duncan to be found at 16 Nelson St, Dundee.

Must find what happened to Elizabeth Burgess too....that would certainly help...if she's not on the scene in 1891 then poor Willaim could have eneded up anywhere.

conjecture, conjecture... ???


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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Monday 15 April 13 22:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank Forfarian....I have just this minute realised that that is probably the case. So...Dundonian as first thought then......

Portybelle, I'll have a look, but it may be to late for you.....many thanks for the kind offer either way... :)

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Monday 15 April 13 19:39 BST (UK)  »
Turns out he was born in Forfar, Dundee. Have to digest that now.....

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Monday 15 April 13 19:12 BST (UK)  »
Thanks both, I shall check the 1911 tonight.

Hopefully he was legitimate, as it has caused a dead end in the past on my mothers side.

Frolicking farm labourers and all that!  ;D

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Search variables give only one result, but it can't be them.....I think!!??!!
« on: Monday 15 April 13 17:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Son's name was William.
Married at age 28.
Occupation: Coal Miner
I haven't managed to track down his birthplace yet, although it may have been Dundee.
He was married at 12 Newton Place, Newton, Cambuslang on the 26th March 1909.

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