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Scotland / Re: Can you find siblings?
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Yeh I found those 3 listings on SP, but like you say there is no way of knowing if they are related, not unless I get the birth certs.  The one I do know of is William George (my father), but the other two I have no idea about.  I am not in a position to ask about whether he had sisters/brothers, so that's why I was hoping to find it out on my own.  Maybe one day i'll just find out!

:)

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Scotland / Re: Can you find siblings?
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 10:25 BST (UK)  »
Yeh I think my problem is that I have been trying to get as much online as I can.  I just need to find the time to go into more detail by looking up the old newspapers etc. 

Thanks, at least you've given me a few places to look for info.

:)

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Scotland / Re: Can you find siblings?
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 10:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies and your info.  It doesn't look like there is any information for the dates I am looking at.

I think I have looked at that council archive list before, but not found anything that would help me.  I'll keep searching.

:)


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Scotland / Re: Can you find siblings?
« on: Wednesday 01 October 08 09:12 BST (UK)  »
The area is Ross & Cromarty.  Where do you find school rolls from?  I had thought it might have been a bit easier for me as the father was a schoolmaster and actually lived with the family in the school house.  But I have googled the school a million times and just get information on present day and the odd bit of history, but nothing about people that were linked to the school.  The school was Tarradale School, the mother died in 1942 and the grave stone says her husband was school master of tarradale school at that time.  And I looked at her death extract and her address was Tarradale Schoolhouse.  If there was school records from around 1932 - 1940 then this ought to show them up.  I would assume that the children would have gone to the same school that they lived at and they wouldn't have been sent to another school.

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Scotland / Re: Can you find siblings?
« on: Tuesday 30 September 08 12:27 BST (UK)  »
I had a look at SP and searched for births with the same surname for the same area as the one I know.  I put the dates as the year of marriage to year of death of mother which was only a space of 22 years.  It came up with 3 people, born 1927, 1929 and 1931.  The 1927 is the one I know, but other than looking at their actual birth certificate I don't know if the other two are connected or not.

I tried the search on deaths with the mothers maiden name and nothing was returned for these 2 names for anywhere in scotland, I only got results when I ticked the box under mother's maiden name, but it's too random to know if it's the same person and if they are related to each other.  There is also the chance that they are still alive.

Might have to try another avneue to get to the bottom of this one.

Thanks

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Scotland / Can you find siblings?
« on: Tuesday 30 September 08 09:10 BST (UK)  »
I think the answer to this question is probably no, but I just wondered if there is any way of finding out if someone had brothers and sisters? If there were any then I know it would be post 1901, so there's nothing to find in the census.  I have both parents info and 1 son, but would like to know if there were any other children as I would have thought that 1 child back in the 20/30's was unheard of?  But perhaps that was just the way this family had it.

The only help I have so far which is leading me to believe there probably wasn't any is that the parents and the son are buried together with the sons wife.  But I guess if there had been other children then they may have been buried elsewhere with their own family.


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Scotland / Re: Are there lists of people who have received MBE's?
« on: Tuesday 09 September 08 09:04 BST (UK)  »
The name is Alexander Fowler, he was headmaster at Tarradale School in Ross & Cromarty.  He was born in 1881 and died 1965.

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Scotland / Re: Are there lists of people who have received MBE's?
« on: Monday 08 September 08 13:45 BST (UK)  »
It would have been in Scotland, so I guess the London Gazette wont cover it.

Thanks for the replies

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Scotland / Are there lists of people who have received MBE's?
« on: Monday 08 September 08 12:44 BST (UK)  »
Just wondered if there is any sort of publication on the net that would list everyone that has received this honour.  Other honours he had was JP and FEIS.  Looking for lists of these also.  Don't know when it was awarded, he was born 1881 and died 1965.  The letters are after his name on the gravestone.

I would be interested to find out why he was awarded these honours.

Thanks

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