Lamont's from Scotland

[MonicaL]

Hi Chezz

Yes, KAJ58 should get all the messages from here if notifications are switched on.

Let us know how you get on 

Monica

[KAJ58]

Hi Monica and Chezz,

Yes I am seeing all the messages and am excited to do a bit more searching but unfortunately my job is getting in the way of my fun! 

[MonicaL]

Real life often gets in the way of fun research...boo 

[Chezz]

Hi,
Well I have been searching a bit today and came up with this from the Latter day Saints site.

William McIlhenney & Margaret Harkins married 16th August 1869 at Greenock Old or West,Renfrewshire

And also all of this:

Birth of a Margaret McIhenney to a Margaret McIlhenney - https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQ3V-PBT
   
To William McIlhenny and Margaret Harkin:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQ4X-B29
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FQ7F-DF6

If you notice Margaret McIlhenney has no father written on hers. I tried to find marriages but had no luck with any of the sites I tried, also can not find Rose's death. Also the spelling of the last name keeps changing.

Chezz.

[KAJ58]

Hi Chezz,

I have the death registrations for Rose and William - I also have Margaret Harkins (McILhenny) birth 1880 and McGUire Harkin Marriage 1886 which I will send through to you on an email.

The first Margaret you mention was too old for my Grandmother and too young for GGm.

Now I just have to watch all the videos and work out how to access the poor relief records while in Australia. 

[KAJ58]

An update,

The wonderful people from National Archives in Scotland have been able to find Margaret Harkins prison record(s) - note the plural.  Interesting that they noted that her age varied greatly each time from 1873 to 1880 - In 1880 she was sentenced to 10 days during which time my Grandmother Margaret was born.

More digging to do now!

[Chezz]

Thats great I have spent today looking for the prison records but could not come up with any thing your doing well.
Cheryl

[MonicaL]

That is a great find at NAS!

What was Margaret Harkins sentenced for? 10 days....must have been for something really, really minor given that in those times you could be transported for stealing some apples 

Monica

[KAJ58]

Monica,

The one in 1880 was for breach of the peace - the others were mostly drunkenness and a  minor assaults early on.  Very interesting.  I wondered if alcoholism was genetic - my dad liked a tipple too much!