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Midlothian / Re: South Leith OPR ?..HOSACK
« on: Wednesday 05 March 08 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hello yes I looked at them but there is no way , i can think of to place any of them   in Leith. Would there be any taxes, polls etc around the first half of the 1700s?

Lorraine

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Midlothian / South Leith OPR ?..HOSACK
« on: Wednesday 05 March 08 17:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hello All
I am looking for Alexander Hosack.  Scotlands people OPR bapt registers of South Leith  states Indewller in Leith and spouse Janet Couper for all his children.
John 1748
Alex & James 1749
Margaret 1751
William 1753
Janet 1757
Alexander 1761
I cannot find a marriage for Alexander and Janet.  I have however found a Alexander Hosack bap 1688 to William Hosack and Janet Hay In South Leith
but that would make him 73 at the birth of his youngest son Is that possible?
The other alternative is that they moved into the area after marriage and before the birth of their first child. Is there other records for that time frame that can be consulted? Why would occupations be given for most of the other couples on the page and a few list indeweller? Ive checked out some of the witnesses Finlayson ,McTagget, Lamb to get a possible age range for the couple. These men married  1727 - 1735 with possible births around 1700 1715
Could anyone advise me of what and where next..  any help at all would be be sooo greatfully apreciated - Thank you

Lorraine Nottingham

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: OPR Word explained please
« on: Sunday 06 January 08 22:50 GMT (UK)  »
Aha !
There are about three or four on that page and the word has been used when no occupation has been recorded

Thank you all
Safficat

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: OPR Word explained please
« on: Sunday 06 January 08 22:11 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, thank you that makes a lot of sense

Safficat
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: OPR Word explained please
« on: Sunday 06 January 08 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your reply.
All their children were born in Leith so you're saying that they moved to this  area/parish from elsewhere...mm

regards
Safficat

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Family History Beginners Board / OPR Word explained please
« on: Sunday 06 January 08 21:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all

Could anyone tell me what the word 'indweller' means in many entries of Parish registers in Scotland. I thought at first it ment ' living in...' but if that was the case it would be included in all entries

eg 'Alexander Hosack indweller in Leith and Janet Couper his spouse had a son....'

many thanks
Safficat

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Hosack family help
« on: Friday 28 December 07 18:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you yes
I found a will I opened up the one I thought belonged to the Father of the better known John Hosack - a John Hosack at Glengaber and it is the right one .
Six pages long , will take me a year to read

Many thanks
Lorraine

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Hosack family help
« on: Thursday 27 December 07 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Oh my... life! I have searched scotlands people over and over again how did I miss that? Thankyou
I will go back and search again and familysearch in case ive missed anything.
But still my confusion remains is  john Hosack of glenzaber  the father of my john b. 1815 or the better known John of Banff b. 1809

Thank you again
Saffi cat

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Family History Beginners Board / Hosack family help
« on: Thursday 27 December 07 18:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hello I m new and Ive OD  on family history and thoroughly confused myself. I would appreciate help
I am trying to find the birth of parents of William Hosack of Edinbugh who  owned Estates in Jamaica
on his death cert his( birth would be1808)  parents are John Hosack and Jean Tining. I Found their marriage entry for 1807 in dumfries but no ages and no birth cert for william
William had a brother john who was a Barrister at law in London as there are some university archived paper in which he had written to a lord Grey on behalf of plantation owners in Jamaica and states his brother John in London would explain matters further.
Now i know there is a well known John Hosack Police Magistrate who wrote Mary Queen of Scots and her accusers born in Banff 1809 to John Hosack and Jean Gilbert and at his death 1887 is a biography on Ancestory. com states 1809 -1887 third son of John hosack of Glenzaber Dumfries
I have found my john hosack (Williams brother ) in English census  and his birth would be about 1815 Scotland but no birth cert for him I did howevr find a cert for a sister Mary Ann in 1810 Toqueer Kirkcudbright and have found her living on plantation called Woodstock owned by william in jamaica But today I found an entry on County Families on ancestry of John Bell and His Parents John Bell and Mary Ann Hosack  of Woodstock Jamaica daughter of John Hosack Of Glenzaber dumfries  .....I am open to any suggestions

Thankyou
Saffi cat

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