Smart Family Key Information Required

[MonicaL]

Hi Joe

Someone else researching this family, from an old post www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,216317.0.html

Monica 

[CaroleW]

I notice Joe replied to that post on 6.11.09

[MonicaL]

  Must read through to the end of posts!

Monica 

[JoeM]

Monica,

I have previously spoken to old bear and sent her all my work, which includes the furtherest I have been able to trace back (i.e. William Smart (b. 1772) and his wife Margaret Dingwall), his sons and daughters and their sons and daughters inclusive to those relatives now living in Canada. This is somewhere around 100 people.

Sharing is Caring.

This was done as indirect payback for all the heip I have been given from people on this site.

[MonicaL]

Sharing is caring Joe  I was just apologising for giving you a link that you were already aware of, hence my note about 'must read through to the end of posts'!

Monica

[JoeM]

Monica,

No worries, no apologies needed nor required. 

But you do have my complete and undivided attention when it comes to scotlands people.

How do I go about joining scotlands people.

I need to find out the name of an Irish man that was staying with or near William Smart and Ann (nee Grant) in 1991. The only avenue I believe I have is the 1891 census.

[JoeM]

I just reread my post.

1991 should have been 1891. Must be to early for me lol. Typo, Typo, Typo .... 

[MonicaL]

Scotland's People link here www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk. There is also a help guide here on RC about getting the best use of SP www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,43916.0.html

If I can give you some advice though  I am a huge fan of SP and can't think of doing Scottish research without it! However, given it is a pay to view site, it can burn through credits if you are doing a general fishing expedition as the search fields for the censuses are not many nor very flexible.

Why don't you post details of who you are trying to find, as much as you have, and then people with access to Ancestry's Scottish census transcriptions can have a look for you. Once he has been found, then you know exactly where to look on SP for the original image of his entry.

Monica 

[JoeM]

Alas here in lies the problem.

An irish man came to Fife to work.

During his stay he got "friendly" with William and Ann's daughter Margaret (b. Dec 31 1866).

We don't know if he left after this or not, but we do know that he did not marry Margaret.

David Smart (b. August 17 1870) stepped up to the plate and married Maragret and their first son was Donald Grant Smart.

David and Margaret were married on Nov. 25 1892 and Donald was born shortly there after in the same year (1892).

I was truely hoping that we would be able to find the "needle in the hay stack" and there would be very few men of irish decent in the area at the time. Pipe dreams and all.