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Perthshire / Re: James and Elspet Campbell's children??
« on: Friday 05 July 24 15:54 BST (UK)  »
No idea how old they were when they married.

I only know their names from their son Archibald's death record.

I can't find a death record for an infant James Campbell.

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Perthshire / Re: James and Elspet Campbell's children??
« on: Friday 05 July 24 15:18 BST (UK)  »
Sorry forgot to say the marriage is in March 1790, so Margaret would have been born the month before and Donald several years before.

Also, surely there can't be 2 James's born exactly a year apart? If it wasn't the exact same date but different year I would imagine one of them had died in infancy and they had used the name for the next child. But the exact same date seems odd.

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Perthshire / James and Elspet Campbell's children??
« on: Friday 05 July 24 15:15 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I am trying to locate the children of James and Elspet Campbell- but am a bit confused by dates!

The only marriage I can find for a James Campbell and Elspet Campbell (Campbell is also her maiden name) is in Little Dunkeld (which is where I would expect them to be) in 1790.

However, I have found the following birth entries on Scotlands People for James and Elspet's children:

CAMPBELL, DONALD 28/09/1783  LITTLE DUNKELD
CAMPBELL, JAMES 20/03/1796  LITTLE DUNKELD
CAMPBELL, JAMES 20/03/1795  LITTLE DUNKELD
CAMPBELL, ARCHD 18/05/1800 LITTLE DUNKELD
CAMPBELL, MUNGO 02/08/1798 LITTLE DUNKELD
CAMPBELL, MARGRET 03/02/1790 LITTLE DUNKELD

I have paid to look at all the entries and they are all in Meikle Logie, which is as far as I can tell is a tiny hamlet near little dunkeld, and is where I expect to find my ancestors at this time. So I believe that all these children are the children of my James and Elspet. But then the marriage must be wrong surely, as several of the children are born before 1790? I can't find any other marriages between a James Campbell and an Elspet Campbell. If anyone can shed any light on this I would be grateful.

Thanks,

Fiona



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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Wednesday 24 April 24 22:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. That's really helpful.

Seems like there is lots of records of him travelling between the UK and South Africa since 1901, but no evidence of him ever being in Canada!

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 22:46 BST (UK)  »
Isabella is living in the school she works in 1921 with her mother and my six year old gradfather in rural perthshire. I am pretty certain she never lived with Alan. And can't find a record of Alan returning to the uk between 1914 and 1920. I  I think the reason they married secretly might remain a mystery!




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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 20:18 BST (UK)  »
Isabel Campbell is my great grandmother. My great grandfather died in SA not long after Isabel's arrival and she was pregnant with my grandfather when she returned to the UK in December.

We only know that Alan existed because we have his medals alongside my great grandfather's (a civilian boar war medal). Him being married to my great grandmother came as quite a shock to my family. I can’t find any divorce records, so I presume they must have stayed married until he died? Despite neither of them seemingly saying anything and living on different continents.


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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 13:46 BST (UK)  »
Ignore that last part! I managed to find him under 39399 when I tried again. Thanks for this hint. Very interesting- although I can't find any evidence of a D Elton in Montreal either unfortunatley.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Monday 22 April 24 12:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for looking into this for me- it's really appreciated.

Quote from: bbart on Monday 22 April 24 01:06 BST (UK)
A very tiny bit more info:
His service number when he first enlisted was 2859.  It is also attached to a second service number of 39399.
The 39399 has him mistranscribed as surname "Etton".  The index for his reenlistment (at Green Point, which is by Cape Town) in Dec 1901, (had been discharged from 2859), says he was Canadian, a planter, and NOK was his brother, D. Etton, residing Montreal.  Sadly no address, just GPO Montreal.

So possibly the Wm Elton, his first NOK, was his father?

Does anyone happen to know what a 'planter' would do?

also can I ask the best place to look at boar war records? I tried to search for service number 39399 on 'find my past' and got someone else entirely!



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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Alan Edward Elton in Montreal b1877
« on: Sunday 21 April 24 10:56 BST (UK)  »
I have some info on his time in the boar war (everything i can find). We have his medal, I know what regiment he was in etc. What I can’t find is when and where he signed up.

After the boar war he served in the SA police in Durban and we have managed to find his records from there, and he lists his next of kin as WM Elton in Montreal.

On the marriage certificate to my great grandmother in 1920 (a marriage that nobody in my family was aware had happened until we found the record!) He states his fathers name as William Mills Elton (deceased), and his occupation as an insurance agent. Which unfortunately rules out William Elton the performer, which is a shame!

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