WHELLANS family - Morebattle

[MonicaL]

I also saw this marriage and wondered if this could be Charlotte's parents:

ISABELLA DODDS and THOMAS TURNBULL    
Marriage: 15 FEB 1833 Jedburgh

Monica

[hdw]

It's probably not relevant to this thread, but a WHILLANS is mentioned in an article in the Summer 2009 issue of the Borders Family History Society Magazine.

Eleanor Lillico writes about her great-grandfather Robert Lillico and his brother James who emigrated to Canada in 1845. They were following in the footsteps of their sister Jane who went out with her husband John WHILLANS of Southdean between 1834 and 1837 "... with the Robert WHILLANS' families [sic] who settled in Gloucester Township, Junction Gore (now the Queensway at Hurdman)."

The first child of John WHILLANS and Jane Lillico was born in 1834 in Scotland, the second in 1837 in Canada.

Harry

[brina]

Just to confuse everyone I have just received another e-mail from Kalamazoo Library and it reads -


I checked a couple of other sources in our collection and could find no mention of the marriage between Jane Whellans and George Taylor.  I did locate Jane’s cemetery listing which lists her as Jane Wallace Taylor and mention of her in another index in our collection that lists her as Jane Williams Taylor.  I’m afraid that rather than helping you narrow the search, I’ve only found more name possibilities.

I am just wondering though if Wallace and Williams are meant to be Whellans.   

Any ideas gratefully received.

Brina

[hdw]

Yes indeed, the name WHELLANS has many variant spellings even in Scotland, and in the States I can imagine that people unfamiliar with it tried to make it into something more familiar and pronounceable.

Harry

[MonicaL]

Agree Harry, most likely a variant of Whellans!

Monica 

[morageckford]

I'm sorry Kalamazoo Library couldn't help with the marriage of Jane Whellans to George Taylor.
They could look for George Taylor's marriages - he married Jane in Jan 1863 and later married Susan Carter in 1870.

What about her death certificate? She died in Kalamazoo in October 1863.

'Morag'

[MonicaL]

I did wonder about a death cert. Morag. Not sure whether death certificates for this period included details on parents etc. Also, not sure how death entries for this period could be accessed (I know the later ones get very complicated!). Maybe the lady at the library could advice.

Monica 

[brina]

I will get back to the Kalamazoo library to ask if they can access any of the death records.   However they have given me a list of researchers to assist if I wish further information which probably indicates that they have given me as much information or as much of their time as they can.

I do not really want to go down the road of paying anyone so may have to lay this to rest until further information is available on the internet or until someone else can help us here.


Brina

[morageckford]

I'm sorry you've drawn a blank at Kalamazoo library.

I've emailed George Taylor's gt. gt. gt. grandson in California to ask if he knows how the records system works in America and to ask if he has any more information. He had already sent me the death announcements of GT's wife Jane Dodds from the Kalamazoo Gazette (1860) who  died of consumption, TB. His last wife, Susan Carter, died in 1889 and the announcement was in the Kalamazoo Weekly Telegraph.
I wondered if he'd got an announcement about Jane Whellans as he'd
got the one about  Susan Carter who isn't related to the present family either.

Another idea would be to try a letter to the local paper in the Borders, the Southern Reporter. I've had a look, " Contributions should be emailed to BOTH derekforrest[at]tweeddalepress.co.uk and susanwindram[at]tweeddalepress.co.uk."
They often publish letters from people looking for ancestors.

I wonder if Kalamazoo has a family history society? Try the web.

I can't think of any more places to look but her birth must be recorded here in Scotland somewhere!

'Morag'

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