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Perthshire / Re: Stewart of Garth, Perth Scotland Lookup
« on: Friday 25 December 09 18:15 GMT (UK)  »
Ah, well, not the same Margaret Black Menzies. Thanks for replying. Meanwhile, Merry Christmas to all from icy, snowy, windy southern Missouri.

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Australia / Margaret Black MENZIES
« on: Tuesday 15 December 09 22:28 GMT (UK)  »
Someone was searching for Margaret Black Menzies (born in Scotland, died NSW). I have one of that name, born 1899 in Scotland (Renfrewshire?), lived in Glasgow in 1901, subsequent whereabouts unknown. She was the daughter of Archibald Black Menzies and Jessie Yuill. Is anyone out there researching this family?

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Perthshire / Re: Stewart of Garth, Perth Scotland Lookup
« on: Tuesday 15 December 09 21:57 GMT (UK)  »
I am very interested in your Margaret Black Menzies. I have one of that name who was born in 1899 to Archibald Black Menzies and Jessie Yuill. Could this be the same person?

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Argyllshire / Re: Links: Argyllshire Burials
« on: Monday 24 August 09 21:26 BST (UK)  »
What I've been looking for is a link to the burials in Duror Churchyard. I know my great-grandfather and great-grandmother should be buried there (Oban Times) and probably some other family members. But I've never seen any stones for them -- I suspect because they were people who thought stones were symbols of pride and should be shunned at all cost. (Not much help to descendants.) Any hope that there's a list somewhere?
SheilaT

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Argyllshire / Hugh McCallum/Catherine McChruiter
« on: Monday 24 August 09 21:04 BST (UK)  »
Hugh McCallum and Catherine McChruiter had twin daughters, Flora and Catherine, in 1777 in Glassary. (They also had sons Duncan and John.) It's possible that Flora could be my great-great-grandmother, who married Gilbert McIntyre in 1802 in Ardchattan. Has anyone else done research on this family?
Flora did NOT name a child Hugh, but there ARE twins in the family. Any ideas?
Thanks! SheilaT

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Australia / Re: Susan Mary SMYTH(E)
« on: Wednesday 19 August 09 05:32 BST (UK)  »
Well, Cavan begins to seem quite likely a place of origin for these people, anyway! I've just come across several websites that reproduce an 1821 census for Cavan. I didn't spot any households with Bernard and Susan Mary, of course,  BUT I did find several Bernard Smyths, and a Susanagh Smyth (though this would be too early for Susan Mary herself).

Another entry says a school was at one site, operated by an Owen Smyth. This intrigues me because Susan Mary Smyth named her second son Owen, which didn't seem to be all that common a name in the family in Australia.
 
Maybe I'm grasping at straws now!

Sheila


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Australia / Re: Susan Mary SMYTH(E)
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Sashar -- I'm afraid I have no further information on Bernard Smyth. Someone in an earlier generation had mentioned Cavan, so I quickly noted it. It seemed to be commonly understood in my son-in-law's family, but there was no proof. No mother's name. No siblings for Susan.
It's strange that Susan and her husband didn't name the second son Bernard, but called  him Owen -- and he was known as Eugene! I've tried to draw some conclusions from the names of their other children, but haven't come up with any ideas.
SheilaT

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Australia / Re: Susan Mary SMYTH(E)
« on: Monday 17 August 09 05:36 BST (UK)  »
I hope these help someone: I have these children of Susan Mary Smythe and James Connell: John, 1859; Owen (Eugene), 1861 (m. Ellen Little); Anne, 1863 (m. Terry Murphy); James Francis, 1866 (m. Annie McManus); Patrick, 1868?; Mary Teresa, 1872 (m. Michael James Meaney); Francie, 1873; Joseph Stephen, 1878 (m. Mary Josephine Sherlock); all born in South Australia.
Any further information and/or confirmations would be most welcome.
SheilaT

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Australia / Re: Susan Mary SMYTH(E)
« on: Monday 17 August 09 04:59 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I have most of the Connell information and the data from the Navan cemetery. Including eight kids for Susan Mary. It's her background that has been rather elusive. Her age and her father's name seem pretty certain, from the church entry in Adelaide. I wish they'd seen fit to tell us her mother's name as well! That could have narrowed down which Bernard was her dad.
Oh, well. On with the hunt. Thank you all for your help.
SheilaT

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