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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Wednesday 28 June 17 23:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi Biztar... where is your DNA posted? I am on family tree DNA, Ancestry, 23&me and Gedmatch. Thank you! Jean

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Wednesday 28 June 17 23:58 BST (UK)  »
According to the 1855 birth certificate of James Watson Purvis his parents married in August 1844 in Linlithgow, however SP have the marriage recorded in Barony.[/i]

I haven't figured out the reason for this. Robert Turnbull Purvis, groom, was born on the east coast in Prestonpans, somewhat nearby to Linlithgow. But, seems weird.

In 1855 the family were living at 30 Grace Street, Barony. In both 1851 and 1861 the family of a John Lang and Agnes Lang nee Shaw were also living in Grace Street ( at no 52 in 1851 and 62 in 1861).

Hmmm... never picked up on this. Very interesting. I will follow up.


Census says John Lang was also born in Pollockshaws ( around 1821/2). John Lang died on 24th Feb 1890. He was a Retired Machinary Merchant, age 69 married to Ann Shaw and his parents are given as Thomas Lang, Handloom Tenter (dec'd) and Mary Lang nee Wallace (dec'd). Given John's place of birth and the fact he was living in the same street as your Lang family, I think it is possible that John was a brother of Jane Lang. There are a couple of Lang births recorded in Eastwood ( reg district for Pollockshaws) for parents Thomas Lang and Mary Wallace - Janet 1808 and James 1810 - but no later births, including one for John, who we know for sure was a child of theirs. There are therefore possibly other children of this marriage also not recorded.
Isobel

Very plausible... and a father named Thomas, too. But no Marys anywhere in the family.


I am new to RootsChat and can't figure out how to reply to specific posts, so please forgive the repeated preamble. Thank you very much for your thoughts.
Jean

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Wednesday 28 June 17 23:50 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much for checking. I don't have access to the Glasgow Herald records.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 18:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi again.

Thank you for your opinion ... this birth record seems iffy at best. She married Robert Turnbull Purvis in Linlithgow... again a little weird, as she was from Glasgow, and he had recently moved from Prestonpans to Glasgow. I did search Langs in the Linlithgow, but didn't turn up anything. I shall continue and I much appreciate your interest and comments!

Cheers,
Jean

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 17:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Annie... Already tried that, the normal pattern seems irregular in this family.
Children in descending order:
1st infant died, female, no name known, born act 1846;
2nd child, 1st son: Thomas Purvis (after paternal grandfather);
3rd child, 2nd son, Charles Watson Purvis (named after paternal grandmother's brother...a little weird, but this great uncle was influential in starting them all in the family pottery trade in Glasgow);
4th child, 2nd female, Margaret Purvis, after paternal grandmother... could be that Jane Lang also had a mother named Margaret, too...
5th child, 3rd son: James Watson Purvis, named after paternal grandmother's father;
6th child, 4th son: Robert Watson Purvis, Robert after his father, Watson again;
7th child, 3rd daughter: Emma Ann Purvis, named after a sister in law of father.

The only birth record I found for follows:
in Pollockshaw:  Janet Graham Lang 1816 Volume 21, page 360. The record reads:
Archibald Lang writer and Elizabeth Graham  LD Janet Graham bo 6th Augt. Wit: John Lang & Alexander Graham. ‘in Pollockshaw Glasgow’...

There are no other Jean, Jane, Janet Langs born about that time in Pollockshaws...

However, there are no children named after Archibalds, Elizabeths, Alexanders or Johns. I find that suspicious, which makes me wonder if this record is correct.

The 'Pollokshaws' location is in numerous census returns, etc. as her place of birth.

Stumped, and unwilling to completely trust this one record. I have been gnawing on this bone for years!

Thank you for your thoughts and ideas. Have you done a DNA test? Perhaps we might match, and that would be a clue...

Best,
Jean
 


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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 16:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi. No obit (everything is in French and I haven't delved the newspaper option in that small town). Just the parish record. Nothing on the tombstone either. I need to push harder in Quebec. I tried all the census records in the Glasgow area, too.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 00:54 BST (UK)  »
Jane Lang Purvis died in 1897 in St. Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec, Canada. She lived most of her life in Glasgow, but travelled to Canada to assist with her grandchildren when their mother was ill. She died there, reputedly from falling down the stairs. She is buried there. Her husband, Robert Turnbull Purvis, died in 1886 in Glasgow and is buried in Govan.

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Renfrewshire / Re: Is anyone researching the Langs of Renfrewshire?
« on: Sunday 25 June 17 00:08 BST (UK)  »
Yes. My great great grandmother, Jane or Janet Lang was born in Pollokshaws in 1815. I have found only one birth record but don't trust that it is correct. Can't find other family members. Anyone else have births in Pollokshaws?

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