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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #45 on: Monday 31 May 10 19:13 BST (UK) »
Surely someone knows where William went (and more importantly where he came from)  :o :o :o
Davidson, Black, Wishart: Fife, Shaw,Morton, McNeice, Gray: Antrim/Scotland
Aldred, Wright, Kirkman, Hurst,Byrom, Hart, Grimshaw,Openshaw. Wilkinson: Lancashire
Hughes: Mold/Wigan
Cubby, Williamson: Cumberland/Wigan

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #46 on: Monday 31 May 10 19:32 BST (UK) »
Surely someone knows where William went (and more importantly where he came from)  :o :o :o

Hi GrandmaSheila ... great to see you've resurrected this.  Surely, after being 'Read 4269 times' you would think so!

Infuriating  >:( ... isn't it?

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Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #47 on: Monday 31 May 10 20:51 BST (UK) »
....Only about 11 months, x days, x hours before the 1911 census is released  ;D Maybe that will throw something up perhaps on your Wullie!

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #48 on: Wednesday 02 June 10 23:11 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your support Chiad and Monica - we live in hope!!! :D
Davidson, Black, Wishart: Fife, Shaw,Morton, McNeice, Gray: Antrim/Scotland
Aldred, Wright, Kirkman, Hurst,Byrom, Hart, Grimshaw,Openshaw. Wilkinson: Lancashire
Hughes: Mold/Wigan
Cubby, Williamson: Cumberland/Wigan


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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #49 on: Friday 13 August 10 23:11 BST (UK) »
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Davidson, Black, Wishart: Fife, Shaw,Morton, McNeice, Gray: Antrim/Scotland
Aldred, Wright, Kirkman, Hurst,Byrom, Hart, Grimshaw,Openshaw. Wilkinson: Lancashire
Hughes: Mold/Wigan
Cubby, Williamson: Cumberland/Wigan

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #50 on: Saturday 14 August 10 17:40 BST (UK) »
Probably not much help but can add to the info you're already collecting - that's if you haven't already discovered it - but it would seem the daughter Robina, was named after Mary Black's grandmother, Robina Turnball.

I've spent some time this afternoon looking around for your 'Wullie' - he certainly is an enigma.  It seems likely he is the one born in Ayrshire, 1860 - have you actually accepted this or still holding out that he could be from elsewhere?
MITCHELL: Glasgow/Fife
MACDONALD: Isle of Coll/Fife
BURGESS/SMITH/HOUGHTON/WILD: Lancashire
HOLMES: Ireland/Lanarkshire/Fife
MCMEEKIN: Stirlingshire/Canada
MCPHERSON: Stirlingshire

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #51 on: Saturday 14 August 10 20:36 BST (UK) »
We just keep looking and looking.  The one born in Ayr would appear to be the best 'fit' but they were always agricultural labourers and he says both he and his father are miners on his marriage certificate.
Yes Robina would appear to have been named after her great grandmother Robina Turnbull - I have traced that family back through the generations without much trouble but despite all my searching am unable to come up with anything about 'Our Wullie' as he is affectionately known.

Davidson, Black, Wishart: Fife, Shaw,Morton, McNeice, Gray: Antrim/Scotland
Aldred, Wright, Kirkman, Hurst,Byrom, Hart, Grimshaw,Openshaw. Wilkinson: Lancashire
Hughes: Mold/Wigan
Cubby, Williamson: Cumberland/Wigan

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #52 on: Saturday 02 October 10 22:09 BST (UK) »
Still looking  :o ::)
Davidson, Black, Wishart: Fife, Shaw,Morton, McNeice, Gray: Antrim/Scotland
Aldred, Wright, Kirkman, Hurst,Byrom, Hart, Grimshaw,Openshaw. Wilkinson: Lancashire
Hughes: Mold/Wigan
Cubby, Williamson: Cumberland/Wigan

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Re: DAVIDSON family - NEWBURGH 1893/KIRKCALDY FROM 1908
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 03 October 10 09:12 BST (UK) »
Hi GrandmaSheila

I noticed that Jimmijam posted this on another thread ...


"Yes I've got Davidsons! ... I've three branches, hailing from Abernethy, Perth, and Peterhead."

Abernethy and Newburgh are just a stone's throw apart ...
 
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=318500&y=716500&z=120&sv=abernethy&st=3&tl=Map+of+Abernethy,+Perth+and+Kinross+[City/Town/Village]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

Could be worth a try 8)

Regards

Chiad Fhear
Aye mair questions than answers in a world where the past was a different place - that cannae be revisited!

Family surnames being researched ...
Crawford, Neilson, Lindsay, Reekie, Davidson
Drummond, Laing, Pearson, Tulloch ... will do for starters but there's a whole lot more!

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk