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Aberdeenshire / Re: A Footdee Marriage 1779
« on: Tuesday 18 December 12 16:24 GMT (UK)  »
Stuart, if you're out there lurking, I've also wondered to myself if these McKay men were actually Donn or Ekels or Calders. There's a fairly good trail back to the late 18th century in Thurso and then nothing. If there was a payment, however, modest associated with registering a birth, they may not have had their births recorded.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: A Footdee Marriage 1779
« on: Tuesday 18 December 12 16:11 GMT (UK)  »
For any of you more knowledgeable of the area, there's a mention on page 15 of The Parish Register of Durness in the year 1781:

"3. Robert Mackay alias macrory revach (Aultnaceilach) soldier in the Duke of Gordon's Fencibles. and...Mary...Donald  7 Jan"

I have always felt the key to figuring this earlier generation (born around 1750) would be through any surviving records of the Duke of Gordon's (Northern) Fencibles. So far, no joy.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: A Footdee Marriage 1779
« on: Tuesday 18 December 12 15:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again Jason - You may want to have a look at this book for Durness vital records published by the Scottish Record Society. This is a secondary resource but fairly reliable:

http://archive.org/stream/scottishrecordso26scotuoft#page/n3/mode/2up

It's free and downloadable in several formats.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: A Footdee Marriage 1779
« on: Monday 17 December 12 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Malky & Tom

As I have told jasonparent via a private message. There is primary documentation for Janet Murray McKay that confirms the date of death and the names of her parents (Hugh Murray and Christina Calder/Donn). I have yet to find primary documentation that would confirm the date of birth or the parents for either William McKay (1777-1829) or Robert McKay (1794-1881).

The genealogy of the descendants of Barbara Morrison and Donald McKay does contain a few errors. It was compiled by Henry Squarebriggs McKay and incorporates a lot of secondary sourced material.

As I told jasonparent, I have some doubts about William or Robert's father having been named Donald. This is entirely circumstantial but neither man named one of his sons Donald. Robert, it should be noted, was by tradition the second Robert born in this family. He had an elder brother Robert that was believed to have been killed in Ireland shortly before the second Robert's birth in 1794. I'm guessing their father's name was Robert. For now, I'm listing them as unknown McKay by unknown Morrison.

The marriage record for William McKay and Catherine Morrison (my ancestor) said that he was "of Keoldale" not that he was actually born there. I believe they were from that area or perhaps Balnakeil...Durness is as safe a guess as it gets.

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United States of America / Re: William F. Scott, Sheriff Prince Edward Co, VA
« on: Tuesday 06 November 12 15:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi - After 40 odd years or so of digging around in archives or the historic record, this is the most challenging research problem I yet to encounter.

Short answer, is no. The William F. Scott that I posted about was a white man born in 1814 in Prince Edward County, Virginia (per 1850 census).

William F. Scott was the natural father of a number of children born to Betsey Lyle between 1849 and about 1867. The date of 1867 is only an extrapolated date from the marriage record of one of his daughters. I haven't found any credible record of him in the 1870 census or available online sources for a death record, probate or possible military service.


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United States of America / Re: George Bussey, Utica NY
« on: Saturday 15 September 12 15:23 BST (UK)  »
PS...doing the math...I'm not quite certain who Anna Bussey was in relation to Austin...digging...

Walker

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United States of America / Re: George Bussey, Utica NY - Austin P Bussey
« on: Saturday 15 September 12 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi again - Just looking at the US Census Records from 1830, etc. The Austin P. Bussey buried at Westernville Presbyterian you mentioned must have been a son of Benjamin Bussey. The breakdown of ages and sexes within Benjamin's household suggests agreement with the mention of Austin P arriving in that area when he was 14 years of age.

Austin P. Bussey appears as a householder in the 1840 Census records for Western, Oneida, NY.

There are two Austin Busseys listed in the 1850 census, one in NY and an older Austin (born 1808) living in Windsor, Massachusetts with Anna Bussey, age 91. I believe this would have been Nancy (Anna) Morse Bussey.

The Peter Bussey in Lowell in 1847 appears to have been an unrelated Bussey.

Walker

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United States of America / Re: George Bussey, Utica NY
« on: Saturday 15 September 12 14:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lisa -  ;D I do know that phrase "I should turn the computer off now...".

Thank you for accompanying me on this nocturnal journey through online resources. I did not pick up the probate reference which you have provided.

George O. appears to have been the son of Dr. Benjamin Bussey (1791-1869) and "Frances" (abt 1792 to 1859). Benjamin, per census records, was born in Massachusetts and Frances was born in Vermont. Just what Mrs. Bussey's maiden name was is anybody's guess...for now.

There are a handful of genealogies that I have seen. Benjamin Bussey was purported to have been the son of Jesse and Nancy Morse Bussey. They had a large family and I believe Austin P. Bussey was their youngest child. Austin P. Bussey's wife was Sarah Halleck.

I had "known" from oral history that the Bussey family in Oneida County but have just started looking at the primary references for them. One "bit" of information that has always intrigued me is the claim that they are somehow related to a branch of the Bushnell family (of the Bushnell Turtle fame) that was based in Connecticut.

I have a feeling that I'll be picking at this for quite some time.

Thank you again for your kind and informative reply.

Walker

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United States of America / George Bussey, Utica NY
« on: Saturday 15 September 12 03:09 BST (UK)  »
I am currently researching George Bussey who married Mary Wheeler Sippell (1815-1904) before 1840 in or near Utica, NY.

Mary W. Bussey appears to have been widowed or estranged from George Bussey by 1850. She had two children Frances L. Bussey born about 1840 and William George Bussey born about 1846.

Frances L. Bussey married Samuel A. Field and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

William George Bussey (1846-1904) was born in 1846 in Utica, NY. He went to school at Hamilton College and later Yale Law (1868). He married Grace Fletcher Trufant in 1875 in Lynn, Massachusetts.

The only bit of information I have for George Bussey is that he was purportedly a civil engineer (per William G. Bussey's obituary).



Walker

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