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Offline saldog

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Scottish Ancestry
« on: Wednesday 24 November 10 17:37 GMT (UK) »
I am looking for help in gaining any information on relatives William McLeod married to Janet Park in 1847, had a son in Lochhournhead in 1847 and then both were drowned some time between 1847 and 1851.
I can't trace any death certificates or other details relating to the drowning.

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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 December 10 20:32 GMT (UK) »
I think you mean Lochearnhead which would come under Perthshire at the time you are asking about?

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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 08 December 10 20:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi, have you tried Scotlandspeople site?
Good luck!
Stanners, Bell, Ramsay, Kerr, Scougall, Gibb, Archibald, Todd, Laird Johnston, Cosgrove, Robertson.

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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 December 10 17:37 GMT (UK) »
Shyann
Thanks for your response but Lochhournhead  ( or Kinlochourn) is in Invernessshire at the head of Loch Hourn.
My request for help should be under the Inverness heading rather than Stirling.

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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 December 10 17:40 GMT (UK) »
meggy1
Thanks for your response.
I have trawled the Scotlands people website with no luck and I have used the website to follow the orphaned son's subsequent history.

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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 December 10 17:46 GMT (UK) »
Death certificates only started in Scotland in 1855, and few churches kept death records so you won't find a death cert, and you probably won't find any other mention in Scotlandspeople. Unless a Sheriff ordered a fatal accident enquiry (which seems unlikely in the circumstances you have described) there may be no official record. The accident might have got mentioned in the local papers, and there may be gravestones for you to find, but I suspect not much more.
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Re: Scottish Ancestry
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 December 10 09:15 GMT (UK) »
Elwyn Soutter
Thanks for your reply.
I have searched contemporary newspapers with no luck.
Also I have searched graveyards but it can be difficult to know where to look as I don't know if the bodies were recovered and if so where.
Therefore I suspect that you are right and that it is unlikely that I will find any reference anywhere to thgeir deaths.
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