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Hey there,

Wish I'd checked this thread first before SP & Ancestry.  I've been looking for the birth/1851/1861 details of a Mary Pickup nee Downs b.1850 in Kirkcudbright.  I've found her marriage to George Pickup in 1874 and her father is given as Matthew Downs farmer.  I think Downs may be a corruption of Doran(s); given the mix of Irish/Scots/Lancastrian accents it could be possible.  Mary would be a sister of Isabella.  Mary & George called their first child Elizabeth Ellen possibly after her granny Helen.

What are your thoughts?

I may have to spend a little more money & get Mary's death cert. (Lancashire) to see if her mother's name is mentioned.

Yours

Ratchete

Hi, hoping for some help with finding the deaths of Arthur Reid Smith & Gladys Davidson.

Arthur was born 9 Apr 1909 at Thomastown, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire to a Helen Smith. No father is mentioned on the birth certificate but I'm 99.9% sure that he was an Arthur Reid (deceased) with 3 still living legitimate children to some-one else.  I can't ask them about it as they may not know about their eldest brother....awkward..... He married a Gladys Davidson (born abt 1917) on 22nd July 1933 at 46a Union Street - Marriage by Declaration ( I have the marriage certificate). On the marriage certificate he has dropped the Smith from his name.

I've tried Scotland's People but didn't find anything that quite fitted; although I might not be seeing the wood for the trees as I've done so so many searches.

I'm wondering if they emigrated.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

ps Having just read about the policy on searching for living relatives I'm pretty sure that they are both deaceased.  The three half siblings still alive are 20+ years younger than Arthur Reid Smith.

Hi All,

I'm not really anywhere nearer finding out who W Reid is but have found some one called Cressida Potter who has done a fair bit of research on Reids in Glenkindie.  She has a website and whilst browsing it I came across a William Reid who was a minister and whose sons were a major general, a professor and a doctor.  This may be a huge coincidence but I'm going to try and see if there is any connection between the Glenkindie Reids and mine.  Geographically they are very close but that doesn't necessarily mean anything as I have found to my literal cost.

Thanks for your previous help.

R

ps the Fasti was fascinating

Thankyou Jo and Kirsty for the help and leads you have given me.  I will follow them and post again when I have more info, or as is more likely, when I come unstuck again.  Although that may be some time off as I fear I've become a little obsessed with ancestor hunting and need to detox a while.

Thankyou again

R

Hiya

Just a thought: could your farm labourer have worked his way up to being a farm baillie ie a grieve (the worker in charge of the rest of the workers aka foreman)?  It's not beyond the realms of possibility that baillie could have been corrupted into bailiff, especially in a Scots/English translation.

Yours

R

Husband is a Scottish farmer and although dieing out these terms are still just about in use.