TAYLOR Family

[angelbaby69nz]

Hi there,

Ive just started out on my partners family tree.

I have back to late 1700's

John Taylor born approx 1784 married Mary Fyfe.  They had John (b.1806) Robert (1808) Jane ( 1808 - twin ) William (1811) and James ( 1814 )

Im trying to find John Taylors parents names.  John and Mary resided in ceres, fife, Scotland.

Any help would be great, i cant seem to get past here.....??
Thanks!

TIsh

[beansgram]

hello fellow chatter the igi shows extracted parish records for the following children to john taylor and mary fyfe

mary    nov 17 1800
david   apr 17 1799
john     feb 16 1806
james   june 8 1814
william  aug 21 1811
the igi also shows extracted record for their marriage on nov 22 1798 in leuchars fife scotland parents david taylor and elizabeth smart, it also shows three children john, sophia, and elizabeth.  johns death july 27 1856.      hope this helps   beans

[angelbaby69nz]

HI

Thanks for that!

Im a little stuck with Scotland research....how would i go about finding records for David and Elizabeth, to try and locate their parents.



Regards
Tish

[beansgram]

hi fellow chatter  i use the igi and i also subscribe to ancestry it has alot of old parish records same as scotlands people but your best place to start would be scotlands people find the birth or death of your john then keep going backwards from the info the certificate.  it usually lists parents and the witness who reported the death also usually a relative.   their are a lot of nice people on here who really know what they are doing and what to look for who might do a lookup for you.        beans

[beansgram]

hi  tish also if there is anything else that you think i might be able to find in the ancestry data base let me know and i will search for you.  just send me a pm with the info and ill see what i can do.  i tried scotlandspeople site but am not good navigating through their files and since a lot of the records have spelling variations you could spend an awful lot of time searching and still not a ccomplish anything, like my main line is drylie to date there is drylie dryalie dryelly drylaw drylay and probably more i havent come across yet.    beans

[angelbaby69nz]

Hi Beans

Thanks for all your help!!  i REALLY appreciate it!

i have recently subscribed to Ancestry.com am currently navigating my way around the site.....its all very daunting.

I would like to somehow find out who David Taylor and Elizabeth Smarts parents are....if it all even possible....

Tish

[trish251]

Hi Tish

I always start with the IGI because it is free 
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

I have found it has a good coverage for my families - many from Fife

If I can't find someone on the IGI, I then go to ScotlandsPeople. If you haven't used it before, it is very worthwhile to read all the hints - as you can waste some money looking at the wrong records, or getting minimum results from a search when you can get 25 per page - and a page costs 1 credit, be it 1 result or 25 results!

Some threads to read
Where to start in Scotland - http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24468.0.html
SP searching - http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,43916.0.html

If you can't find something on SP - post a query, some folks try hard to hide - there are some very good SP searchers on RootsChat 

If there is NO record for a parish birth/marriage on Sp then
- it may be earlier than available records - check here
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/index.html
- your birth/marriage may have been recorded in a church other than the Church of Scotland

- your birth/marriage may not have been recorded anywhere

I haven't found alot of useful bdm information for Scotland on ancestry, but I tend to prefer SP (despite pay to view - if I find it, I know it is the best available) so go there first

When looking for the parents of your couple, it can be useful to look at the full image of the marriage (at SP or an LDS centre if they have the film). This may indicate the current parish of the bride and groom & given the times, it was common to stay in one's parish. Did either of the couple live past the 1851 census OR 1855. 1851 may give a birth location & a death post civil registration should give the parent names. Although there is transcribed census data on ancestry, some of the transcriptions are very suspect. If you think you have found your folks it could be very useful to access the images from SP.

Trish

Edit: sorry I just noticed bg has found some parents - although I am slightly confused as to where? There is an extracted birth record on the IGI
John Taylor chr April 1781 Collessie, Fife - does this link to John and Mary?

[angelbaby69nz]

hi again.

im a little confused to your edit post.....

also: how reliable is the igi?

Tish.

[trish251]

Sorry Tish - I think I sometimes confuse myself

1. The edit relates to the comment from Beans
"the igi also shows extracted record for their marriage on nov 22 1798 in leuchars fife scotland parents david taylor and elizabeth smart"

I don't know where the remark re the parents david taylor and elizabeth smart came from - they are not mentioned on the extracted IGI record - although there is a separate IGI record with them as parents.

2. Extracted IGI records are  very reliable. They are usually taken from church records - main concerns are transcription errors which can happen with all online transcriptions. But they are usually good.

Submitted IGI records are only as good as the research of the submitter (about which you have no idea) & often useless. When looking for your information there is one record which says John was born 1793 and married c. 1800 - not likely for a 7 year old to be married - so the record is nonsense.

Trish