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Lanarkshire / Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« on: Monday 27 October 14 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
I've been away for a couple of days and just reading up on all this information and I am amazed at how much you have found!!  I can see that Samuel Stewart is definitely the correct one, and ties up will that his mother's name was MacFarlane.  As for Jessie... you have potentially found her by comparing signatures  :o

Myself and Mel had looked at the details and had come to a dead-end, it was just as an after thought that I thought of this site.  Thank you ladies :)  So glad we came here!!

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Lanarkshire / Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« on: Wednesday 15 October 14 12:46 BST (UK)  »
Jessie's maiden name was Graham so the Aberdeen connects could be correct.  Although if she married in 1934 this was AFTER the time where she called herself Mrs Burnett.  Jessie Millar Graham could be her as she was born in Glasgow and her year of birth is correct.  Its difficult and there are lots of questions

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Lanarkshire / Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« on: Tuesday 14 October 14 20:55 BST (UK)  »
so we need to find out who Jessie Graham married (Burnett) - where and when
who Samuel Stewart was and what happened to him

The name Macfarlane must be in the family history too :)

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Lanarkshire / Re: Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« on: Monday 13 October 14 18:39 BST (UK)  »
I meant to add that I cannot find Jessie anywhere, and she was possibly married but doesn't seem to appear on the census

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Lanarkshire / Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart - parents information
« on: Monday 13 October 14 18:37 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm hoping that someone can help.  I'm trying to help a friend with a family history problem but not really sure where to look now.  Her husband's grandmother, Rebecca Macfarlane Stewart was born 27/11/1922 to a Jessie Burnett and Samuel Stewart in Shettleston, Lanark.  It seems that her parents were married to other people at the time.  The mother gave her up and went to work as a housekeeper on the isle of Bute, her father drank a lot and gave her up to an orphanage.  We have the records from the orphanage and we have the birth certificate but we are unable to find anything else.  Any ideas?

Thanks :)

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Staffordshire / Re: Travellers in Staffordshire 1890s - Day Family
« on: Tuesday 06 March 12 22:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for this, this is great, it does fit, as the daughter Emily (my friend's grandmother) was married in West Bromwich.  Its great that Laura's date of birth is there as I can now get her birth certificate and maybe establish if they were cousins.  James' date of birth is a couple of years out from what I had, but if he was a traveller, this would make sense as well.

My friend has a very 'foreign' look with black hair and dark skin and nobody knew where this came from, if this was a family of gypsies, it all adds up.

Thanks for your hep with this :)

Lil

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Staffordshire / Re: Travellers in Staffordshire 1890s - Day Family
« on: Tuesday 06 March 12 18:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you :) I couldn't quite make it out on the certificate

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Staffordshire / Travellers in Staffordshire 1890s - Day Family
« on: Monday 05 March 12 21:21 GMT (UK)  »
I'm working on a friend's family history and have found that her great grandparents were James Leon Aspain and Laura Day, married in 1898 Edville?? Stoke on Trent.  Their fathers are given as James Leon Day (born out of Wedlock) (Traveler) and Henry Day.  I'm struggling to find any record of either family apart from their marriage certificate, possibly because they were a travelling family.  Does anyone know the history of travellers in the area or how I can find a little more info about them?

Thanks

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Herefordshire / Re: Farming Accident - Baker 1948
« on: Tuesday 08 November 11 19:05 GMT (UK)  »
Excellent, I'll try that, thanks for your help  :)

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