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Re: Help! How to find family connections when no documents
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 09 October 10 00:25 BST (UK) »
Where was Alexander and family in 1851?

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Re: Help! How to find family connections when no documents
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 09 October 10 00:27 BST (UK) »
Still in Dalmuir Shore. He was a Sulphuric Acid Maker in the chemical works
Essex: Boosey/Boozey; Leveridge; McAllister: Morley: Webb
Suffolk: Morley; Leveridge:Crowe; Barnard: Reeve: Webb: Cobb
Norfolk: Hunt, Hammond, Groome,King's Lynn;
Cambridge: Groome
Islington, Holborn, Tottenham: Hunt; Nash
East London/West Ham/East Ham/Dagenham/Bow,Mile End: Smith; Morley: Boosey: McAllister: Webb
Gloucestershire: Smith; Fildes: Ashwin: DJones; Lloyd; Prior; Jenkins;Mitchell; Phillips
Somerset: Smith; Jenkins; Wyatt;Cole;Mitchell
Scotland: McAllister; Love;Lang;Ferguson

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Re: Help! How to find family connections when no documents
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 09 October 10 18:12 BST (UK) »
Is it likely that marriages and baptism would be recorded in Free church records

No, because the Free Church did no come into existence until 1843.

It is possible that they might have been baptised and/or married in a dissenting or episcopalian church, and that records were kept, and that those records have survived, but it isn't very likely. You can find out which non-Church of Scotland registers are in the National Archives of Scotland www.nas.gov.uk by searching the online catalogue for documents whose reference starts with CH3 (CH2 is the Church of Scotland records).

Episcopalian records, if any, are unlikely to be in the NAS. If they exist, they are more likely to be somewhere in the diocese. You could have a look in the Scottish Archive Network www.scan.org.uk just in case.

The more likely situation is that the records you are looking for did not survive, but you never know, you just might be lucky.

Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Help! How to find family connections when no documents
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 09 October 10 19:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you for that. I will check it out.
Essex: Boosey/Boozey; Leveridge; McAllister: Morley: Webb
Suffolk: Morley; Leveridge:Crowe; Barnard: Reeve: Webb: Cobb
Norfolk: Hunt, Hammond, Groome,King's Lynn;
Cambridge: Groome
Islington, Holborn, Tottenham: Hunt; Nash
East London/West Ham/East Ham/Dagenham/Bow,Mile End: Smith; Morley: Boosey: McAllister: Webb
Gloucestershire: Smith; Fildes: Ashwin: DJones; Lloyd; Prior; Jenkins;Mitchell; Phillips
Somerset: Smith; Jenkins; Wyatt;Cole;Mitchell
Scotland: McAllister; Love;Lang;Ferguson