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Hi!

Bit puzzled why Nick has put you onto this site which is mainly concerned with the Kelman family from Aberdeenshire.  I think you are looking for a Scottish
link to the Chisholms, unless of course you are somehow related, but I have yet to find the connection?

Come back to me if you think that our names are linked, otherwise good luck in your search

Thanks for the information, I will try and get Jake's attention the way you suggested!

Bill

Bill

I believe that your wife Sheila was my cousin if her brother was named Alan and his mother was AKA Nancy, hence the the family names  big Nancy wife of Tommy and little Nancy wife of Georgie.(refered to their height)

Anyway if this is so my granfather died about 1946ish I dont know for sure the funeral was at St Bridgets I was only
5 but I attended against the wishes of the family sneaking in at the back. He was buried in Smithdown rd cemetery.

My grandmother survived a few more years and his buried with him

My father James second oldest always told me that my granfather spoke of Dunnoon and he did not speak much of his family
but his sister Jessie visited for a short while in the thirties. So it is possible he went south via there.
I hope this helps.

I would be interested to hear more on how you are going.

Hi! Jake, You can e-mail me on

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Myt brother in law is XXX Kelman. I often heard about Tommy and little Nancy (nee Harris) was married to George Kelman (b1919) in Liverpool. They married in 1940 and had two children, but only XXX Kelman is still alive.   So your father James (b1912) is the brother of my late father-in law Thomas.  Can you help on tracing their father George (b1886ish) in Scotland.  I think I am on the right track, but have yet to get my information confirmed.

Regards

Bill Pearson


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My scatter gun approach may have paid off.  I have been contacted by a Genes re-united member Karen who thinks we may possibly be related.

She has a George Kelman in her family tree who was born on the 1st June, 1885 at
Edinkille, Morayshire, one of 11 children born to James Kelman (1850-1938) who was born at Rhynie, Aberdeen and died at Dyke, Morayshire. His wife was Jessie
Kynoch (1845-1905) born at Dyke and died at Conicavel, Morayshire.  They were married in June 1873 at St. Andrews, Elgin.

Now Karen has a great deal of information on all but one of the 11 children which is George who has fallen off her radar screen.  Is he the one who gradually moved
South to Liverpool and did James come to live with him after his wife Jessie died in 1905 and then sometime later move back to Scotland?

I have to try and fill in the missing pieces between George's birth in 1885 and his next appearance as husband of Elsie Allen in 1909 and father of my late father-in-law, Thomas George Kelman, born in 1910.

We know that James (1850) was a Joiner by trade (normally associated with an apprenticeship in carpentry, but he might have just joined pipes, vehicles, etc. and thought the description of Joiner suited him better - I'm grasping at straws!)
Likewise George was a sugar refiners assistant but by the time his son Thomas got married in 1937, his occupation of the marriage certificate was listed as a "Carter"!

Fact (I hope so) or fantasy (more likely alas), so the search goes on

Bill