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Aberdeenshire / Re: Alexander Taylor of Glass & Huntly
« on: Saturday 20 October 18 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your good suggestion, snowolf. Unfortunately it was not the Alexander Taylor I'm looking for; wrong parents and 16 years younger. Worth a try though.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Alexander Taylor of Glass & Huntly
« on: Monday 13 August 18 12:53 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your suggestions, Carole. I've spent some time searching the scotlandspeople archives in Edinburgh for marriages and deaths but no luck there. There again, he could have married & lived in England but there's no sign of him on the 1939 register. I doubt whether he would have joined the navy but he may well have moved abroad. It's unfortunate he has such a common name but I'll keep on searching. Thanks again, CS

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Aberdeenshire / Alexander Taylor of Glass & Huntly
« on: Sunday 12 August 18 14:56 BST (UK)  »
Searching for any information on Alexander Taylor, born 18 July 1886 in Glass, Aberdeenshire; mother, Jane Whyte, father, John Taylor, a sheep dealer. He was with his maternal grandmother in Glass on the 1891 census and was an apprentice grocer in Huntly 10 years later. After that, I can find nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, CS

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Look up please Watkin/s Llanfyllin
« on: Monday 09 November 15 12:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Cuddlybunny. I wonder if you can answer one or two of my queries regarding the Watkins of Llanfihangel yng Ngwynfa. My grandfather's cousin married Rees Watkin's eldest son Thomas (born 1972, Birkenhead) and his son Owen, whom I knew, made a few notes on his grandfather's siblings.
Other than birth years, he had no more information on Mary Watkin (1845) or on your ancestor Thomas (1849). Sister Elizabeth (1847) had married someone ..? and they had a daughter Margaret who married William Rees. I can't find this marriage so can't discover who Elizabeth married. Similarly, I don't know who the youngest sibling David (1851) married, only that they too had a daughter Margaret Watkin who married a Mr Jones - 2 children, and later a Mr Lucas - 4 children. Also in the notes was a Margaret Watkin who married Wayne Bingham. No idea of dates and haven't found the marriage yet.
Can you solve any of these mysteries please?

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Montgomeryshire / Re: Look up please Watkin/s Llanfyllin
« on: Wednesday 04 November 15 23:06 GMT (UK)  »
Might your Thomas Watkin have had an elder brother Rees? This is what I found on the 1851 census.

1851
(51)  -----, Llwydiarth, Montgomery   HO 107/2499 – folio 241 – page 18      district 6a
David Watkin      head   75   Farmer of 5 acres   b. Llanfihangel, Montgom
Mary Watkin      wife   75                    b. Carus, Montgom.
Rees Watkin      g-son 8                    b. Llanfihangel

(52) Fyniwrth??, Llwydiarth      HO 107/2499 – folio 241 – page 19
Evan Watkin      head   34   Ag Lab      b. Llanfihangel, Montgom
Margaret Watkin           wife   30            b.Llanfihangel
Mary Watkin      dau   6            b. Llanfihangel
Elizabeth Watkin           dau   4            b. Llanfihangel
Thomas Watkin           son   1            b. Llanfyllin

Rees Watkin married Maria Morris in 1872 in Llanfyllin and they had Thomas, David, Margaret Elizabeth, John & Marie who were all born in Birkenhead. The names are very similar to those of Thomas Watkin's children in your family.


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Aberdeenshire / Re: Alexander Wright & Margaret Black, Turriff
« on: Saturday 29 December 12 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
PS. I think Alexander was mistaken with his son's age. George was born 4 May 1860 at Backhill, Turriff and died of scarlet fever 12 June 1870, making him 10 not 12. I do hope he didn't get any more dates wrong!

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Alexander Wright & Margaret Black, Turriff
« on: Saturday 29 December 12 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
Here, at last, is the photo of the Wright's gravestone in Turriff. Sorry you've had no luck with John Wright & Mary Brown though.
Happy New Year - Chris

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Alexander Wright & Margaret Black, Turriff
« on: Wednesday 24 October 12 00:32 BST (UK)  »
I have a photo of this gravestone as Alexander Wright was my husband's great grandfather. His grandfather was William (1861-1943), the first of 3 born to Alexander & his second wife Jane Burnett.

I've hit a brick wall with Alexander's father, John, though. I don't suppose you have anything on him, do you? Ever hopeful, Chris

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