1841 census help please - Love

[ankerdine]

We've just been traipsing around Wigtownshire searching for MI's and the like.

We did a quick tour of Mochrum churchyard and, strangely enough, I thought I saw the name Love. It's one of those names/words  that jumps out at you.

Sadly, back home now after one of the best weeks in Scotland for 30 years.

Judy

[Millstream]

We've just been traipsing around Wigtownshire searching for MI's and the like.

We did a quick tour of Mochrum churchyard and, strangely enough, I thought I saw the name Love. It's one of those names/words  that jumps out at you.

Judy

I know what you mean - sometimes you see a name and it just stays in your mind. I would suspect that there would be the 'Love' name in that churchyard as the more research I carry out the more my search is coming back to Mochrum, Penninghame and Wigtown for Philip Lynch and Rebecca Love

Regards
Paul

[Millstream]

Maggie Love

A Margaret Love was born illegitimate 22Jun1856 Stoneykirk.Mother Rebecca Love.Father not given.
There are two marriages for Rebecca Love to Philip Lynch 14Apr1863 Penninghame and to James Fitzsimons 31Oct1865 Mochrum.From the 1881 Census the Rebecca who married Philip Lynch was born in Mochrum 1834/5.In 1881 she was living in Penninghame.Cannot find the Rebecca who married James Fitzsimons.
I think that when Rebecca was married she gave her daughter Maggie to a relative Margaret Love to raise.There was a Margaret Love living in Mochrum in 1863.When Maggie married in 1880 she had lived in Mochrum for most of he days and had no memory of Stoneykirk.She mistoke Margaret Love for her mother.


www.btinternet.com/~fraser.hamilton2/hren03.htm

Monica

This is interesting as I have Philip and Rebecca Lynch together in the 1901 census - Philip 65 and Rebecca 68 at Clary Hill Wigtownshire.

They are together in 1881 census 45 and 46 yrs at Baltersan farm again in Wigtownshire

Philip is on his own in the 1861, 1851 and 1841 census. All the way through he was a "gamekeeper". Born in Kelton KBT and the rest of the time he comes up in Wigtownshire.

Starting to look involved.

Thanks for all your help
Paul

[KirstyG]

The rootsweb archive seems to have a few connected postings, someone else has been tracing Love families in Wigtownshire. The full census entry for 1951 was posted here which includes Rebecca Love aged 21, an unmarried dairy maid, born mochrum.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/sct-wigtownshire/2006-03/1142700308


The Love family in Mochrum seems to be that of John Love and Rosanna McBratney. It has been nicely summarised in his 1855 death entry from Wigtownshire Pages.

"Love, John 75y - Mochrum - #28 - John LOVE, Pauper, formerly Agricultural Labourer, 75 years. Born in Antrim, Ireland, lived in Mochrum over 50 years. Parents: William LOVE deceased & Catherine CAMPBELL deceased. Married: Rosanna McBRATNEY. Children: Ann, 42. David, 41. Jane, Died at age of 22 in 1838. John, Died at age of 31 in 1850. Rosannah, 35. William, 33.Catharine, 31. Margaret, 29. Agnes, 27. Alexander, 25. James, 25. Died on Oct 21, 9:30am at West Barr, Mochrum, of Catarrh and Chronic Rheumatism, 3weeks. Certified by James McCormick, MD-last saw deceased Oct 17. Buried in Mochrum Churchyard, certified by Alexander Clave, Undertaker. Signed: David LOVE, son. Registered on Oct 23 at Mochrum, D. M. Macfarlane, Registrar."

Rebecca could have been the child of one of the children listed.

Kirsty

[ankerdine]

Hi Kirsty

I have been following these postings with interest. Can anyone access these Wigtownshire Pages please?

Judy

[KirstyG]

Hi Judy

Main page url: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/

wonderful free resource.

Kirsty

[ankerdine]

Hi Kirsty

Thanks. I will take a look, though I think I did before and couldn't find anything specific to my particular research area.

Judy

[Millstream]

Hi Judy

Main page url: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/

wonderful free resource.

Kirsty

I agree, this is a great resource. I now have a far better idea of the area and how the different Parishes meld into the larger Wigtownshire as well has a sense of the history and settlement of the area.

Regards
Paul

[Millstream]

The rootsweb archive seems to have a few connected postings, someone else has been tracing Love families in Wigtownshire. The full census entry for 1951 was posted here which includes Rebecca Love aged 21, an unmarried dairy maid, born mochrum.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/sct-wigtownshire/2006-03/1142700308


The Love family in Mochrum seems to be that of John Love and Rosanna McBratney. It has been nicely summarised in his 1855 death entry from Wigtownshire Pages.

Kirsty

Thanks Kirsty, I never gave a thought to going through the Rootweb Archives - we are a bit slow out here in the 'Colony of Australia'. I am now going through the threads you have highlighted as I am finding - with the help of the posters to this thread - that the 'Love name' is reasonably common even when coupled with the surname Lynch.

Regards
Paul