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Hi, I need help with a bit of a conundrum. I have included a link to one of my previous posts which provides some other related details to an adoption. This is quite a long (and convoluted) post, so I  hope you’ll please bear with me.

Does anybody have Doyle ancestors from the West Lothian area that may have had connections (marital, social or work, anything really) with any Stewarts from the Stirlingshire and West Lothian areas? I know this is a very broad question.

A coal miner, Michael Doyle came to Scotland from Ireland. In 1845 he married Mary Courtnay from Dumfriesshire. They had 13 children altogether, born between 1845 and 1872. Some were born in the Glasgow area, but after 1862 the rest of  their children were born in the West Lothian area - Mary Doyle in Torphichen (1863), William Doyle also in Torphichen (1864), Bartholomew in Bathgate (1866) , Thomas Doyle in Armadale (1870) and William Michael Doyle in West Calder (1872). The relevant Stewart family members who I have managed to trace so far (Christina Stewart, Duncan McLaren Stewart, Jane McLaren Stewart and Janet Dunlop Stewart) were born in Gargunnock near Stirling, but by the next generation some of the Stewarts were living in Bonnybridge. In the link (which doesn’t feature any names), the “married couple living in Northumberland” that I mention were Thomas and Evelyn Doyle who already had two children. Thomas (b. in the Newcastle area in 1886) was the son of James Courtnay Doyle (b. 1857), one of the Glasgow area born Doyle children. Therefore, the West Lothian born Doyle’s were his aunts and uncles. I am convinced that the fact that there was an adoption arrangement between two couples that were living so far away from each other (quite unusual?) suggests that the Doyle and Stewart families were already familiar with each other. I have been searching for a possible connection for about a year now but haven’t managed to establish one yet. I would be SO grateful for any help.

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Regards

Doddie

Hi I could really do

I feel rather foolish. I've had a look at the death certificate. The informant is James' father Thomas Graham. I thought maybe that the person identifying a dead body and the informant indicated on a death death certificate might not necessarily be one and the same. I think the tragic timeline is as follows; James' body was found at 8:40pm on Thursday the 31st of October and then taken to Falkirk Police Mortuary. The body was identified on the evening of Friday the 1st of November. The newspaper report was published on Saturday the 2nd of November. I am not sure when the actual death certificate was issued but the correction statement that accompanies it has two dates at the bottom of it - " Falkirk, 14th November 1895" followed by two names, and "Polmont, 25th November 1895" followed by the name of the registrar. Does this indicate that the death certificate may not have been not issued until between three and three-and-a-half weeks after death. Also, does it mean that it is was accepted that the person who identified the body would also be entered on the death certificate as informant?

Regards

Doddie

Hi, I am after some information of a somewhat sensitive nature. I am carrying out some family research for my girlfriend. I have discovered her great aunt Elizabeth Graham married William McLuckie Frew in 1907. Elizabeth died in 1930. At the time she was a patient in Stirling District Asylum (also referred to as Larbert Asylum, as it is on the death certificate). I am just trying to find out when Elizabeth was admitted to the asylum and perhaps a little background information. I fully appreciate that this is very delicate territory. As I understand it, Stirling University holds all the records for Stirling District Asylum and I have also reached out to them to see if they can assist me. I would like to apologise in advance for any upset caused by my post.

Regards

Doddie