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Lancashire / Re: Does anyone remember a James Arthur Yeadon - known as Frank (Blackpool)
« on: Thursday 08 August 13 18:21 BST (UK)  »
Probably zero connection, but today as I followed Francis Percival McKay (aka Fallon) from my tree I came upon a passenger list with a Francis P McKay leaving Canada to head to 1 Vanville Villa, Medhurst, Sussex who showed his occupation as music hall artist.  He was 52 years old making him of apparent correct age of my Francis Percival but otherwise out of character.  My Francis McKay was born in Ireland in 1872, married an Elizabeth Hill in Portsmouth, was a member of the Royal Marine Artillery, came to Canada, lost his wife to tuberculosis in 1914, joined Canadian Expeditionary Forces for the first World War, appears to have married an Enath Grayson and then Laura Bell Babcock, but by 1923 returned to England alone and remarried yet again, to an Edith Elizabeth (possibly Coles) and looks like he died in 1943 at the military hospital Cosham, Portsmouth.  As far as I know he had one son, Percival John born in  Halifax Nova Scotia. Francis Percivlal's mother, Fanny Fallon was born in Corfu, married in Ireland and died in Canada so I guess anything is possible as far as his post-military career.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: John Scott and Elizabeth Low
« on: Tuesday 03 March 09 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
If the John Scott who came to Canada as a widower was the same John Scott who married Elizabeth Low in Tyrie, Abd. then I am descended from him, as a great-great-granddaughter of his left-behind son George, great-granddaughter of George's son John Watt Scott (m Rebecca Duthie), and granddaughter of George's son John Scott who emigrated to Canada in 1877.  My father has living (age 100) first cousins in Pitsligo, Abd and they were only vaguely aware that their uncle lived in Canada and even less aware that an older generation ancestor may have left Scotland 80 years before that. 

It appears that the children left behind, namely George, William and Jane lived together Greenburn, Tyrie with Jane being old enough to be a surrogate mother to these two younger sons, but also with a maternal grandmother and an widowed aunt (m to Alexander Connon).  Jane had an illegitimate daugher by druggist John Middleton but she never married and had no other children.

Although I am unable to find the birth or baptism record for George, I do have his death certificate in which his parents are shown as John Scott and Lizzie Low.  In that record John is noted as having been a "militiaman". 

I would be very pleased to correspond further with you to establish these speculations.

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