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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: David McMillan married to Nicholas Rae
« on: Monday 04 January 21 08:47 GMT (UK)  »
The RD was Kirkcudbright in both certs. David's witness was the minister (George Wood) who also certified the cross mark which was David's signature.
Henry was listed as a Farmer (but deceased) in the marriage cert and as a Carter (but deceased) in the death cert.

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Kirkcudbrightshire / David McMillan married to Nicholas Rae
« on: Monday 04 January 21 05:08 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone can clarify this. Nicholas Rae is my second cousin, three times removed.

Under Statutary registers Marriages 871/15, David McMillan married Nicholas Rae on 3 Nov 1863 in Kirkcudbright. His father, Henry McMillan, and mother, Catherine (nee Gilmour), were deceased. David's age was given as 40 and Nicholas was 39.

Two years later, on 30 November 1865 (ref: Stat registers Deaths 871/95), David McMillan died. The register says he was married to Nicholas Rae and her details check out. (She was born in Auchencairn on 28 May 1823.) But David is now 55 years old, his father is Henry but his mother is now Jane McMillan (No maiden name given.) Both are deceased.

Can anyone help?
Thanks, Michael.

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Sunday 18 December 16 06:41 GMT (UK)  »
My father collected weekly and monthly premiums for the Prudential in the Kells area for over 25 years. His area ran from Parton in the south to Balmaclellan, Dalry and up to Corsock. I have been able to read some of the less legible names on older documents because I am familiar with the names. I also have an old friend in New Galloway who can help out with more "recent" details. My father's birth mother also lived up at Kendoon for most of her life.

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 03:06 GMT (UK)  »
I'm interested in Cunningham Rae as his father's sister (assuming it is William) is Euphemia Rae who married John Stevenson. They had a son called Cunningham (b 1818) who married Jane Robinson (or Robertson) and their daughter Elizabeth (b. 1855) married George Robb Houston. My mother is a Houston.

Michael

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Saturday 17 December 16 02:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Gadget,

I didn't know that they rounded up the age in years!

I grew up in Kirkcudbright. Spent the first 18 years of my life there. Lived at 39 High Street.

My father worked on Coopers before he joined the Prudential up in New Galloway.

(But I had never heard of Galtway Cemetery and even names like Rerrick are unfamiliar!)

BTW, my musings on Cunningham Rae being from Kirkcudbright are wrong. The census of 1851 says he was born in Rerrick, so it fits with William and Margaret Rae.

Michael

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Friday 16 December 16 04:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Gadget,

It sounds good. Also, given this Cunningham, the ploughman married to Grace Logan, gave his age in the 1861 census as 50 which fits with a birthdate of 1811. They were staying in Drummore Cothouse.

In the census of 1841, there is a Cunningham Rae (age 25) working as a manservant for John Barclay at Drummore Farm. Could they be the same Cunningham Rae?

If so, it might mean the Cunningham Rae who died in 1903 was a real Kirkcudbright man. Born in Kirkcudbright?

Michael

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Thursday 15 December 16 12:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Gadget,

That's about as far as I got. Do you know who provides the data about parents to the Registrar? Is it the informant. If it is, I was just wondering if James Rae, the son who signed for Cunningham's death, could have given his great-grandmother's name rather than his grandmother's name? i.e. he said it was William Rae and Agnes Duncan rather than William Rae and Margaret Rae? Possible?

Michael


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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Thursday 15 December 16 11:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your speedy reply.

Does anyone know who this Agnes Duncan is? And who is a member of her family?

Michael

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Info needed Cunningham Rae / Agnes Duncan married 12th Oct 1777
« on: Thursday 15 December 16 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the speedy reply.

Has anyone been able to work out which one is which and who belongs to which family? Don't spoil you holiday fretting but if you have any ideas when you get back, I'd be pleased to hear them.

The Cunningham Rae who married Grace Logan seemed to work on Drummond Farm in Kirkcudbright -would I be right about that?

Michael

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