mclauchlan

[ADP]

One important thing to remember, mostly applicable to pre-20th century research is that spelling was unimportant. The spoken word was more important than the written word - they were pronounced in much the same way, particulary if you consider the parents with their Irish accents talking to the registrar with his Glaswegian accent.

So on that basis I have no problem in accepting McLaughlin as the same name as McLauchlan. There will be a number of other variations to consider Mc/Mac, Lauch/Lach/Laugh/Lagh, lin/lan. That gives you 16 combinations from these parts of words with their variations. There may be others that I have not given here.

Around the start of in the 20th century, spelling became more consistent. The spelling of the name accepted by that family around then is likely to be the spelling that has come down the family since then. Other people of the "same" name will have taken on other spellings of the name, even though they are from the same family line further back.

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[runningbear]

hi trinni, have you got your james's birthlines yet? marriage cert? or death cert? which would contain the maiden surname of his mother.

armed with this information you can then search through the censuses from 1861 to 1901 and follow your james's footsteps.

once you have identified the parents, you can also follow there footsteps through the census, you maybe be even able to find them on 1851 census in glasgow.

there is so many people on rootschat willing and eager to support you in your search.

Joe

[trinity2]

hi joe hope your well,have a marriage cert and death cert both have different spellings of mclaughlin also subtracting the age from marriage year and the age from death year i have two different birth years,parents names as mcdonagh/mclaughlin,good news though came across living cousins,through a second marriage of my grt grans havent come across any mclaughlin relatives though,thought id take a break from the mclaughlin search and follow another family name quinn

[runningbear]

trinni, post the details of the birth and the details of the death, not to worry, so it seems that we found them on the 1861 census after all.

when people report a death they are not so sure of birth dates or parents of the deceased.

the fact that they were both born ireland, it is just a case now of hoping that they are in scotland in 1851.

who is your quinn? and have you posted your details yet?

Joe

[trinity2]

have been looking for patrick quinn bengal fusilier and margaret quinn nee slavan patrick had died before 1866 according to his sons marriage cert his son patrick born around 1847 married 1866 to martha wood county tyrone was the place passed down family is where patrick was born though dont know if his wife margaret was born there also a connection to quinns in england have no idea where dont have 1847 birth cert only his marriage cert,also john burns and mary mcateer son michael born around1875,i have also spoken to another family member who could possibly help me with the mclaughlin line ,so far there is an airdrie connection poss blantyre,and poss govan glasgow,going from mclaughlin to mclaughlan to mclauchlan to mclachlan,if it keeps changing much more i could end up with just an

[McKiwi]

HI, I have a connection to your Patrick Quinn and Martha Wood. Their daughter Ann Quinn born 1877 married my great Uncle Peter Killigan in Glasgow in 1895. I have Patrick born 1847 in Bengal. Patrick in 1871 census also in 1881.
Ann and Peter had 2 daughters, who both died in infancy. Any other information appreciated.