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Fife / Re: Moyes 'ancestors'
« on: Sunday 21 December 08 02:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your suggestion, Jacquie. My research is a bit intermittent and haphazard, but I found a reference to the Dunfermline Library Kirk Sessions being put online, so I'll keep an eye on that. Doing research from NZ (as cheaply as possible!) makes it a little more difficult.

Cheers (and Merry Christmas)
Valenzed

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Fife / Re: Moyes 'ancestors'
« on: Wednesday 26 November 08 08:54 GMT (UK)  »
WOW!
Thanks, AMBLY. What a lot of information to digest. I don't have a death certificate for Andrew Moyes. I have the census information from 1851 to 1901, and also assumed that he had died between 1881 and 1901. A foray into Scotland's People might be worthwhile. Agnes is listed as head of the household in 1901, occupation housekeeper - for six miners, which couldn't have been easy.
I can see I'll be spending more time on the computer, as well as sorting out what I already have.

Cheers
Valenzed

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Fife / Moyes 'ancestors'
« on: Tuesday 25 November 08 22:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hello
I'm new to this forum (or any for that matter) and would like help with a brick wall I've come up against.
My ggf Andrew Moyes was born in Dunfermline in 1849. I'd fondly imagined that I was descended from a long line of Moyes's, but Andrew's marriage (to Agnes Haxton on 3 Dec 1866) certificate states that his mother was a Mrs Simpson, deceased, and his father unknown.
The 1851 census has him living in Dunfermline with James and Jean Moyes and listed as 'orphan'. By 1861 he is a 'boarder' in the household of James and Elizabeth Moyes. They appear to be the witnesses at his marriage.
If anyone can throw any light on this, I would be most appreciative.

Valenzed

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