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Hi all,

His wife and children were all present and correct in Slamannan: censuses; marriages; births of children; even burials and monumental inscriptions. Ann Gaff, his wife, was buried with one of the sons and mentioned on the gravestone.

He was a master baker [see initial post] employing three men. Two of his sons continued the business with his wife being a grocer.

The person in the asylum was, as I said, a sawyer.

I will of course try the Poor Law records, but not immediately. It no longer seems quite as high a priority. I am going to have another look at the censuses. As none of the marriage certificates nor Ann's death certificate have him as deceased I may try the statutory deaths again - although there are quite a few John Gardners -- will have to wait to garner a few bawbees before tackling that!

As a previous poster stated 1891 census search draws a blank - so far.

Again this is not my main line. I was hoping [sigh] that someone whose main line it was knew that he had emigrated to Timbuktu !!

Thanks to all

Helenor

Looking at the link given by Harry, I followed by reading an article on the "creeping demolition of the East End" which had been published on 2nd February 2015.

One of the comments was:
Unesco are looking to remove Edinburgh as a World Heritage Site and we seem to be doing everything in our power to assist them. All listed buildings should be safe from greedy developers & an apparently uncaring council. Losing Unesco status would be disastrous for Edinburgh, so to all the people involved who can only see £ signs, I would ask you to think very carefully.

An unsympathetic/ modern development of Register House would no doubt influence any such decision. Perhaps a point to be made in any letter to MSP or Government?

Helenor 

Thank you for the link to the petition Tom. I have signed.
I have also sent it to others who may be interested.

Who is/are the ultimate decision maker? The Scottish Government? Edinburgh Council? Edinburgh Planning Committee? UK Government? Or some other entity?

Thanks

Helenor Jones

Yes that is what I meant. Even when it was open, there were documents which I had to order in advance. I am sorry to hear that the service has deteriorated.

Just imagine, though, in Wales we have to travel to Aberystwyth. The roads are "difficult" and there is no direct public transport link from South Wales. [We have to travel via Swansea up to Shrewsbury and then across - the routes which existed were of course destroyed by dear Mr Beeching!] When we want to use the archive we "save up" our queries and go for a few days mid week.

Our local archive in Carmarthen has been closed to the public for over a year because of "mold".
Access to documents is crucial if we are not to end up with people regurgitating others' research.

I began working in research in 1966, and, although the internet has opened up some documentation it has also, it seems to me, to have been used as an excuse to limit the opening of archives and the use of archival material.

There, rant over.

Hope all goes well in Edinburgh

Helenor Jones

Hi Margow,

Thanks I'll give that a go

Helenor