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Offline AngieB

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Missing John Brown
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 18:24 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone please help me?  I am looking for a John Brown born between 1893 and 1915 parents were John Brown and Margaret Wilson. I have found siblings in Hamilton Stewarton and Coatbridge.  I know how difficult it is to trace such a common name but any help would be fantastic ???

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Re: Missing John Brown
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 January 09 21:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi Angie,

With such a common name, you will need to narrow down your time frame. :-\ For instance, have you got the family in the 1901 census? If so, is John there and what are his details? If born post-1901, any idea what age he was or what the age order of his brothers and sisters were? Anything can help. If he died in Scotland, his death entry will also help with an approximate age.

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Re: Missing John Brown
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 14:41 BST (UK) »
ive a Janet gardiner brown marriage cert in 1912 address  aged 16
address4 chapel Square Morningside by Newmains

Parent Thomas coalminer and Margaret Arnott If that comes up with anyone give me a shout
Campbell, Greer, Hamilton, Brown, Arnott, Gardner, Smith, Stewart

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Re: Missing John Brown
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 29 July 09 15:38 BST (UK) »
Hi Angie

I have a few John Browns in Hamilton, and there's a Christine Wilson Brown born in 1922, but I've not found where the Wilson came from.

Check out the Brown Genealogy on my website to see if any bells ring.

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Midlothian: Adam(s), Meikle/Muckle
Leith: Bridges
Edinburgh: Brown
Prestonpans: Bird, Inglis
Fife: Wemyss
Orkney: Brock
Ireland: Sweeney

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Re: Missing John Brown
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 15:30 BST (UK) »
Needle in a haystack, but I happen to have a John Brown as an in-law.  Have you checked immigration records?  (This information is from Scotland's People and the Ellis Island site.)

My John Brown married Janet Thomson on 17 October 1905.  He was a gardener at Calderwood Castle in East Kilbride and she was a daughter of the estate manager.  Witnesses were James Brown, coalminer and Elizabeth Brown (m.s. Mackie).

Don't have birth on him but Janet was born 1886.  In March 1909 they migrated to the USA on the Columbia out of Glasgow.  Two children:  Margaret 2, and Elizabeth 9 Months.  Destination:  John Brown (father), Dumont, New Jersey, USA.
Pryde, Doig, Paton, Scott, Jack in Fife; Thomson, Barclay, Barr, Steele, Sandilands, Lockie, Gibson in Lanarkshire

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Re: Missing John Brown
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 23:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: AngieB on Sunday 18 January 09 18:24 GMT (UK)
Can anyone please help me?  I am looking for a John Brown born between 1893 and 1915 parents were John Brown and Margaret Wilson. I have found siblings in Hamilton Stewarton and Coatbridge.  I know how difficult it is to trace such a common name but any help would be fantastic ???

What info do you have on him? That is quite a large margin for birth years.

When and where did his parents marry?
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