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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Wilson/(Mac)Taggart, Kells
« on: Wednesday 02 April 25 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Any pauper burials would not be included in the Graveyard Inscriptions.  As Gadget says you may find a mention in the kirk session records
Doolitttle

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Stirlingshire / Re: Alexander Lauder
« on: Friday 10 January 25 14:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Thank you to both of you.
I appreciate that if there is no record it doesn't  mean it didn't take place which is why I have used his marriage and death ages to suffice.  I have searched the censuses for Alexander Snr and Marion to no avail, unfortunately there is forty years between when anything could have taken place.
I have tried looking at publications for mariners in early nineteenth century but no luck there either.
Doolittle

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Stirlingshire / Re: Alexander Lauder
« on: Thursday 09 January 25 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I have all the census records for Alexander and Marion Scott and their family  There is no mention of Alexander Senior and his wife Marion Little after their marriage in 1799.
Alexander Junior was not baptised so could only guess at his birth from his marriage and death ages.
If Alexander Senior was a sea Captain how could I find any records to prove this and would Marion his wife have gone to sea with him?
Thank you for your reply.
Doolittle

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Stirlingshire / Alexander Lauder
« on: Thursday 09 January 25 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rootschatters
I have been searching for the above for many years.  On his son's marriage to Marion Scott on 26th October 1822 he stated his father was a sea captain.  Neither Alexander or his wife (Alexander Junior's mother?) baptised their son.  Alexander Senior and his wife Marion Little who married in Polmont (her Parish) on 30th June 1799  were never seen again.  Assumption is made the Alexander Junior was born shortly after their marriage but no record has been found.
Has anyone got any ideas where I can take this?
Doolittle

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Lancashire / Daniel Booth
« on: Wednesday 04 December 24 15:06 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, I'm still searching for him!!
Am I right in thinking that if someone died on board a vessel at sea they made an entry in the Captain's Log Book and disposed of the body.  When they returned to port the Captain was required to register the death.
There is an entry that a Daniel Booth died on 10th August 1839.  The vessel returned to port on 12th February 1840.
It is not in the GRO index - could it be in the Liverpool Register?  They keep giving me the number for Southport but they can only help with the ones on the index!
Doolittle

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Kirkcudbrightshire / Re: Wilson/(Mac)Taggart, Kells
« on: Thursday 28 November 24 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
Little bit of background to Kells churchyard and MI's.  This church was only built in 1812 and although a lot of the stones pre-date the churchyard they were brought from the old church before it was demolished.  The new manse was built on the land they had purchased but had no money left to build the church until 1812.  The old church and the graveyard was situated on the road to Achie and Airie farms accessed at the side of West Riskpark.  There may have been more Memorial stones which were not transported to the new churchyard.  There is no sign of any gravestones as you wouldn't know it had been the site of a church and graveyard as it is now just a field.
Doolittle 72 

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Lanarkshire / Re: WWII, Exempt Occupations and Steelworks
« on: Thursday 21 November 24 15:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bella
My late husband's family all lived in Motherwell and all worked through the war in the steelworks.  Also my own family were all miners and worked on through the war as well.  They were both exempt occupations.
doolittle

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Lanarkshire / Re: Headstone pictures CAMBUSNETHAN CHURCHYARD WISHAW - Part 3
« on: Sunday 08 September 24 10:57 BST (UK)  »
Hello
Regards the latest in the Steele saga.  Rachel Steele was married to Thomas who was the registrar at Wishaw.  He took over from his father also Thomas.  Rachel was the eldest daughter of John Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth Burt Nisbet and John was killed in the Blantyre Pit disaster of 1877.  Elizabeth emigrated to USA with the remainder of her children and died in 1906.
Doolittle 72

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London and Middlesex / Re: Missing Death Certificate
« on: Thursday 22 August 24 20:17 BST (UK)  »
Thank you - I do have a copy now.
Doolittle72

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