Help to trace Taggart/Aicken

[daisymaisy]

Hi Iam not having much luck in finding out much information on the above names,I am now hoping someone here might be able to help.All the information I have is from my grandmothers birth certificate and  is as follows..
 Margaret d.o.b 1/1/1895 father
John  Taggart ,labourer ,Glenarm,
Mother Sarah Taggart formerly Aicken.
the birth was registered in the distric of Glenarm larne..
As far as I was told my Grandmother was brought up in the Catholic faith ,but in 30/7/1915 she married James Coutts in Glasgow who was a protestant.I have also been told she had a sister called Annie,no one seems to know when the family moved from Larne to Glasgow.Any ideas on how to trace more info would be great..
thank you

[Cell]

Hi Daisy,
Do you have your grandmother's parents marriage certificate?
If not, I found this civil index info below for a John Taggart and Sarah Aiken that may be yours.

Civil marriages: John Taggart and a Sarah  Aiken married on the 10 Sep 1892 at Glenarm Presbyterian Church.  Parish Tickmacrevan,  in the sub district  of Larne.

Hope that is of some help

[daisymaisy]

Hi Cell Thank you very very much for finding that out for me,I had no idea when they were married.I have now tried putting the names and dates into the mormon index search hoping to find out what children they had ,but had no luck.funds are rather low just now so can't afford to obtain a copy of their marriage certificate,but hopefully in the near future I can send off for it and hopefully get some information on thier parents etc...
once again thank you so much for your help..Iam rather new to all this research so if anyone else has any other ideas or links that they could  put me on to to obtain more information I would be very gratefull.
thank you

[daisymaisy]

while searching for the Taggart/Aicken name I came across this web page,I know its maybe a long shot but just maybe the Sarah brought up by Andrew Aiken could be the same one Iam looking for.

http://members.tripod.com/mmkasik/id21_andrew_aiken_and_esther_montgomery_had.htm

ok maybe Iam getting excited over nowt ..lol

[scotmum]

Cell has given you a possible marriage, which is a good place to start. A couple of sites such as Ulster Historical Foundation and Family Ulster would be able to give/get you transcripts of the marriage for about £6 and £4 pounds respectively (so cheaper than getting an actual copy cert).

Re your website find, there would be no harm done in contacting the owner and asking them if they would have a look at the possibility of a link with your Sarah, albeit it maybe best if you have a few more details to hand first. It only takes the time to write a short email and you never know the result (I've found this helpful in the past), albeit I think the Mills in brackets after her name is suggesting this is the surname of who she married.

The family in the website originated in the Buckna area, and these two surnames still appeared in that area right through the 1800's into the 1900's.

I wouldn't get too concerned about the apparent contradiction re Religion. Marriages between RC and Protestant faiths were actually more common in that timescale than many people seem to realise (and in many rural areas, children from both religions were taught in the same school).

[scotmum]

Are you near any of the Family History Centres in Scotland (ie the Mormon ones)? You could ask them to order in the marriage for you to view. also the 1901 Census for Glenarm to see if the family may still have been around then.

Have you also checked the 1901 Scottish Census in case they had already moved by then and tried for births of any children in Scotland around 1901? There would seem to be only one Margaret Taggart age 5 or 6 in Scotland at 1901 (1 credit to view index, then 5 to view return)...you never know, may be her...there are 16 Sarah's, and rather more John's (68). There are also 20 Annies.

[daisymaisy]

Hi Scotsmum I am in North Lanarkshire ,have never been to the family history centre but I will try to get there to follow it up maybe within the next few months iam off work sick at the moment.Thanks to you too for the help...iam not too good at this researching stuff at all ..lol

meant to add that the Taggart family when they lived in Glasgow came from Pitt street ,now if I could match the Margaret Taggart that you found in 1901 census age around 5/6 to that street that would be another  piece of the jigsaw .

[scotmum]

You have a good starting base with your gran's birth details and with a little bit more time and digging, should hopefully get back a bit further. Irish research is often hampered by a lack of certain records, but is not impossible, so keep going. Funnily enough, around the 1900's, there was a Taggart family in the Buckna area who had apparently moved or returned there from Bellshill (North Lanarkshire).

[scotmum]

Have used Lanark including Glasgow to narrow down the index search but unfortunately in doing so it no longer returns anything for a Margaret aged 5/6, so perhaps not yours after all.