robert ewing

[hume]

This is a submitted IGI entry with several errors but I wonder if Rose's maiden name was Carlin which is a good old Irish surname (it was my maiden name!!)

Hi Carole,

I think you are right; Carlin looks good.

thanks for all your help,there is stil a few ewings liven in paisley now, robert ewing who married 1912 anybody know if he served in W.W.1? ave photos of him in uniform aound that time ,thanks again

I'll have a look at medal cards, etc. With such a common name, it may be quite difficult though.

hume

[CaroleW]

I have already checked the Medal Card Index - too many

I have also checked what few WW1 records still exist for that name and none fits his profile

[will1890]

yea theres alot of ewings, can you get birth certs on line?marrage certs? i know robert ewing born 1925 worked on the Q.E.2 AS A CARPENTER,trying to think what else i can look up bout them

[will1890]

also ive been told robert ewing served in the boer war,

[CaroleW]

can you get birth certs on line?marrage certs?

See above - Scotlands People but you have to pay

Without his service number there is no way of tracing him.  About 60% of service records were destroyed in the WW2 blitz

[will1890]

yea its hard to look up w.w.1 records ,ive been tryn for ages myslef on my side of family,just the photo of robert ewing hes in w.w.1 uniform. thats it notn else , just him and wife and child,

[will1890]

new names,helen mcgarrity born 24/03/1926 died 25/12/1979 paisley, any info would be great ,and also john mcgarrity was her brother ,who went 2 austrilia around 1950,,,,,thanks,,,,,,,dave

[hume]

Hi Dave,

The death was registered as Ellen Graham Ewing nee McGarrity. She was 53.

The death index gives mum's maiden name as Fraser.

There is a marriage between John McGarrity and Elizabeth Fraser, 1916, in Paisley.

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[hume]

Married 2nd June 1916 at St Mirin's Church, Paisley, according to the Forms of the RC Church.

John McGarrity was 23, an iron miner and a Private in the A.N? Highlanders Territorial. His parents were Denis McGarrity, riveter and Helen McGarrity m.s. Graham.

Elizabeth was 21 and worked in a papermill. Her parents were James Fraser, labourer (dec.) and Mary Fraser m.s. Ferguson.

Witnesses to the marriage were Denis McGarrity and Helen G. Taggart.

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