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Hi,
Thank you. Ive already got the death certificate but the informant the son was not very good at remembering his grandparents. He is only able to give their surnames of Dickson and Morrison, And i suspect the Morrison is the name of one of the informants wife’s relatives.

When John died from injuries he received at his place of work, his wife applied for help burying him. The Poor Inspector for St Cyrus turned him down claiming he was originally from Laurencekirk. Ive not found any references to how he came by this. According to John himself in every census from 1851-1871 he clams he was from St Cyrus,but I cant find any John that fits with his details in St Cyrus. His marriage is listed twice once where he has been given the surname Diggans and said to be of the parish of Glenbervie, the other entry in his wife’s parish has him correctly puts as Dickson of the parish of Glenbervie. Check of Dickson in Laurencekirk proved the John theire died unmarried on a different date of death, Glenbervie has a family that fit but no John listed as theirs though the time of his birth coincides with the death of one minister and the arrival later of another so some baptisms might have not been recorded by accident. If it is that Glenbervie family, then his parents married in Wilton, Roxburgh According to the two marriage procaimations, his father comes from Hebden of the South of Britain. Hence my curiosity on the post that includes two Dickson men from England whose grandfather is said to be from Glenbervie.

Kind regards, Joelle

As someone else stated the accuracy changes as more people are tested. I do suspect sometimes several people might come up with the same DNA in Scandinavia but when new DNA samples are found it could actually be that that DNA comes from a family that emigrated to Scandinavia from another country.

If you go to https://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/history.html you will see some Huguenots did indeed emigrate to Scandinavia so you might find you have a DNA connection to them.

Also it's important to note that different DNA companies use different grouping for DNA, some might just put Scandinavian as just Scandinavian but some groups will group Norway, Finland and Sweden as a group Scandinavian. I know that Ancestry, 23andme and most companies will list what the groups consist of. They usually then inform you of the change in grouping like in ancestry Scandinavian then was divided in seperate grouping for Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Kind regards, Joelle