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Wigtownshire / Re: My names in Stranraer area
« on: Tuesday 19 April 22 00:34 BST (UK)  »
I'm related to John Thomson of Leswalt think born in around 1846. Went into Army and Married Maria Dolores Borg in Valletta Malta around 1875. Was in army barracks in Edinburgh by 1881 and eventually moved to Glasgow around 1890s. He is my great grandfather. Passed away around 1918. His family lived in Wiver House in Leswalt.

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Wigtownshire / Re: My names in Stranraer area
« on: Sunday 02 September 18 14:42 BST (UK)  »
I've got a paper copy of it somewhere. I will look it out. I'm sure it was his son that signed it. My granny signed Maria's in 1929 but he was gone before her.
I'm sure I have their marriage certificate too from previous searches so I will hunt it all out again.
I tend to do it in fits and starts and then become like a dog with a bone until I uncover something!
Thanks for tips. I will post up what I find!
Janet

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Wigtownshire / Re: My names in Stranraer area
« on: Sunday 02 September 18 13:41 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Monica. That's very definitely him as of 1881 in Edinburgh. He was in the 71st Regiment and that's the first of their children's names too. They married in Valletta in 1875.
I've been hunting about Scotland's people but I cannot remember if his father's name is James or Robert.

I know at some point between 1875 and 1881 they left Malta, went to Gibraltar and Germany. Now in Edinburgh! Then between 1881 and 1895 (my granny born around then in Glasgow) they were also in Ireland as another daughter born then. I know he had become a night Watchman after turn of century and still was in 1915 as he is noted on my granny Sarah Brady's marriage cert in 1915. Later he passed away at that job as I managed to trace his death cert which had  an unusual adjustment at the cause of death section.  It had to be changed to say died due to hitting head after a fall at work. But can't seem to pick up his earlier life at all.

I chased a few false leads around Wigtownshire late last night but might have picked up his birth in the Galloway Free press to a James Thomson "and wife" on 1st March 1850.

But thanks....a very good start to the search as I'd no idea they were in Edinburgh and had been searching the Glasgow census.

And thanks for the welcome! Janet

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Wigtownshire / Re: My names in Stranraer area
« on: Saturday 01 September 18 22:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello very new to here but I've Thomson Leswalt and I think Stranraer. John Thomson - my great grandfather. I think born around 1855. He was a Lance corporal and was in Malta in 1875 when he married my great grandmother Maria Dolores Borg and eventually came back to Scotland. Settled in Glasgow - I think at one point in Keppochhill Rd. I think his father was James Thomson and Mother Elizabeth? My father, Stevan Brady - his grandson - was evacuated to a farm during 2nd World war and it was to the Thomson's. Hoping to find out more about his side of family as I have more info on Maltese side way back several centuries than I do the Scottish side! Thanks Janet

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