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Armed Forces / James Tait (26th Regiment)
« on: Monday 24 November 25 20:26 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking for records about James Tait and Thomas Whitehouse.

Thomas Whitehouse married Jane Sweetman on 5th April 1831 at Chatham, Kent, England. They had 5 children, the last being Alexander Shanks Whitehouse on 24th June 1840 at Chatham, Kent, England.

Alexander died 18th May 1841 at Berhampore, Bengal, India. He was in the 26th regiment.

Jane Sweetman then married James Tait on 11th April 1842 at Berhampore, Bengal, India. James was a corporal in the 26th regiment. Jane was also in the 26th regiment.

James and Jane had my 4th great-grandmother, Mary Tait, on 20th January 1843. James was a corporal in the 26th regiment.

I have the images of the records on FamilySearch, which is where I got my information from. I cannot find any military record about Thomas Whitehouse or James Tait. I have no birth or death for either of them.

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Lanarkshire / Margaret Baird Goldie (1920-2012)
« on: Monday 14 April 25 13:27 BST (UK)  »
I need some help in finding information about the early years of my great-grandmother, Margaret Baird Goldie.

She was born on 1st January 1920 at the Maternity Hospital in Glasgow. She was an illegitimate daughter of Mary Goldie who registered her on the 12th February 1920. Mary Goldie was living at 19 Portland Street. I know from Mary Goldie's poor law record in 1919 that her father was Thomas Scott Ferries.

She was baptised in St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral. This is the transcribed record:
Margaret, illeg Child of Mary Goldie and
born the 1st day of January, 1920, was baptised by me on this day 29th March, 1920
X stranger
John McQuillan
Sponsors
Jo Mary Johnstone and

By the 1921 Census she was living at 25 Portland Street:

Henry Burns, Head, 58yrs -mos, Male, Married, born Glasgow, Driller for Wallace and Sons Agricultural Implement Makers, Dependent Children None

Maggie Burns, Wife, 57yrs -mos, Female, Married, born Glasgow, House Duties

Margaret Baird, Foster Daughter, 1yrs 7mos, Female, Before Age, born Glasgow

I would like to find out more information about the Burns family as my family did not know about them until the 1921 Census was released.

At some point after 1921 Margaret Baird Goldie was moved to Kirkintilloch where she stayed with Margaret McPhee, m.s. Baird.

There is no family relation between Mary Goldie and Margaret Baird/McPhee, yet my great-grandmother was named Margaret Baird Goldie from birth but was not given to Margaret/Baird McPhee straight away and was minimum two years before being handed to the McPhee's.

I know legal adoptions were after 1930 but would there be any sort of record available that could provide any more information on what happened. Mary Goldie was a Roman Catholic. She also had another daughter, Janet Baird Morrison Goldie, in 1921. Both sisters were given to Margaret Baird/McPhee.

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Lanarkshire / Catherine Beattie - Death Corrected Entry
« on: Sunday 26 January 25 18:34 GMT (UK)  »
My 4th great-grandmother Catherine Beattie died in Moodiesburn on 13th February 1919. The cause of death was listed as burning.

She had a Register of Corrected Entries where the cause of death was burning accidental and was certified by Geo. Giles, Dep. Prosecutor Fiscal. This was signed by the Prosecutor Fiscal's Office Glasgow in March 1919.

Would there be some sort of record that would include the particulars of what happed to Catherine Beattie? I have so far not came across any newspapers that include the story.

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Midlothian / Re: Catherine Phin/Goldie, 1852, Burial
« on: Sunday 23 June 24 22:32 BST (UK)  »
It looks like you're right. J Gray is referenced another time as well

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Midlothian / Re: Catherine Phin/Goldie, 1852, Burial
« on: Sunday 23 June 24 17:51 BST (UK)  »
Yes you're right Forfarian it is Catherine Phin or Murray, that was another silly mistake from me. Her daughter Helen married a Goldie and they are my 4th great-grandparents.

It sounds like I'll need to have a trip to Edinburgh soon for a wonder about the cemeteries. I've checked find a grave and there isn't anything there.

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Midlothian / Catherine Phin/Goldie, 1852, Burial
« on: Saturday 22 June 24 23:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

My 5th great-grandmother died in Edinburgh in 1852 and on her death record, it says she has a headstone. However, I can't work out where this would be.

Any help would be appreciated

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Dunbartonshire / Re: MacDonald's of Twechar/Kirkintilloch
« on: Thursday 13 June 24 16:49 BST (UK)  »
I have traced the ancestry of Daniel McDonald Senior.

He was born illegitimate to Mary McDonald who was the widow of James O'Hara. His biological father I later found was John Richard Roger. Mary had three children with him in 1889, 1893 and 1898 but never married him. She then married Thomas Lochhead in 1899 and had two more children.

Also, Fofarian, were you assuming there was meant to be any logic behind the name change? If there's one thing I've learned from my grandpa's family is there is no rhyme or reason to anything

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Dunbartonshire / Re: MacDonald's of Twechar/Kirkintilloch
« on: Thursday 13 June 24 12:29 BST (UK)  »
Yes, that was my mistake. Sometimes I just type without thinking what I've written, too many Daniel McDonald's.

Daniel Martin McDonald Sr (1893-1948)
Daniel Martin McDonald Jr (1913-1967)

Daniel Sr was the county councillor

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Midlothian / Re: Edinburgh Poor Law
« on: Thursday 13 June 24 08:31 BST (UK)  »
Mary Goldie was born in 1862 and had her kids from 1884 to 1896. She lived at 8 Queens Place from about 1884 to 1893

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