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South Africa / Re: Edward Couchman HUNTER - is solution in South Africa
« on: Wednesday 12 June 24 10:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi, Bridge67. Many thanks for the information. It must be 5 years since I was looking for Edward Couchman HUNTER's data (pre-Covid, for sure). I dd manage to find the data that you kindly provided. I do recall that I had reached a brickwall, even in Family Search - but another person said that she could see all that I needed in Family Search but, when I tried, nothing came up. I never did find out why I was unsuccessful. Thanks again for your contribution.

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The Common Room / Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
« on: Friday 12 March 21 14:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for the offer. I am doing this research at the request of my relative, who wrote (my recent/only findings are in square brackets):

"Robert Robertson b1910  [14 Nov, found on Scotlands People] Kilmarnock, d? Montreal Canada. Emigrated possibly around the 1920s/30s [on Ancestry, I found the emigration to Quebec 1932]. May probably have travelled with James Robertson (No middle name) [on Ancestry, I found the emigration to Quebec 1923] but again not certain. Robert was a manager in Bank of Montreal. James returned to Scotland before the war.

"m. Troutie ?  (that may be a real Christian name or a nick name) no surname. Canadian.

Good luck

 

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The Common Room / Re: Nickname - have you heard of this one?
« on: Friday 12 March 21 13:21 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Maggsie and Gadget. I need to dig further. It is possible also that Troutie is a form of Traude, a diminutive of the German Waltraude. Who knows.

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The Common Room / Nickname - have you heard of this one?
« on: Thursday 11 March 21 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
"Troutie".
 A Scottish relative emigrated to Canada in the early 1900's and is believed to have married a Troutie.
There's no trace of such a name in FS nor Ancestry..
Any thoughts, please?

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South Africa / Re: Samuel Sawyer - b. 1739 Shoreditch (burial 16th Dec 1827]
« on: Monday 01 February 21 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks anyway, it's all grist to the mill.

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South Africa / Re: Samuel Sawyer - b. 1739 Shoreditch (burial 16th Dec 1827]
« on: Sunday 31 January 21 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you. That might have been Samuel Sawyer's parents (I do have a Samuel and Mary) but the date may not fit. I will look at this further.

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South Africa / Re: Samuel Sawyer - b. 1739 Shoreditch (burial 16th Dec 1827]
« on: Sunday 31 January 21 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you. Yes, Mary Bramley, for whom I have a mild brickwall. You may have noticed the Death/Burial records are a little vague/confusing. But then, the Registrar could only record what he was told....

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South Africa / Re: Samuel Sawyer - b. 1739 Shoreditch (burial 16th Dec 1827]
« on: Sunday 31 January 21 15:08 GMT (UK)  »
No one has found a record for a marriage prior to Eliz. Leech. He could have been a bachelor or, as happened with another of my forebears, he lied, being a bigamist or whatever. Yes, if only we could find a marriage to Ann Hannah.
Btw, which link do you usually use for FS? I have three - there may be better ones?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/family-trees/
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi
https://www.familysearch.org/search/hr/search

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South Africa / Re: Samuel Sawyer - b. 1739 Shoreditch (burial 16th Dec 1827]
« on: Sunday 31 January 21 14:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you to all contributors. Useful stuff. It has been hard to tie down his place of baptism and indeed, my name Sawyer was an occupation itself; confusing. His burial date of 1827 may be wrong, as its calculated birth year of 1739 leads us nowhere in particular. Equally, there are Land Tax Records 2 and 4 years AFTER his death year of 1827. The more we dig, the less we can pin down!

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