Hamilton Brown 1870

[orkneyinga1]

trying to work out what relationship that makes us.  Have to say that my gt grtgrandparents were Robert and Agnes Brown. sorry for taking so long to reply. ive not been well

Are Robert and Agnes Brown parents of Margaret Scott's husband?  Sorry Can't remember his name.  It must be cousins of sorts.  If Margaret and Mary were sisters.  What relationship was Margaret to you?

[orkneyinga1]

I only posted that reply this evening.  I'm off on a fortnights holiday at the end of this week. So will be out of contact for a while.  I've one or two copies of certificates. Let me know what you have.

[marcie dean]

I have Roberts marriage cert to Agnesand the births of all their children  I have the marriage of Margaret Duncan to Hamilton Brown and their children and themarriage of John Brown and Margaret Scott, what I do not have are all the birth certs for their children or death certs for the pair, if you can help with this I would appreciate it and if i can ever return the favour i would be only to pleased to do so, thankyou. it seems to me that every male in the family who has a son calls one of them Hamilton
marcie dean,

[marcie dean]

JUst thought are you tracing the brown family as well as the scott family if so would you like allan browns email to talk directly to him. ill ask firstjust to be polite he is my third cousin,ifhe agrees will pm you.
md

[orkneyinga1]

Hello Marcie

I am only tracing the Scott family tree and came across a Hamilton Brown being a son of Margaret Scott.  It is much easier when you latch onto an unusual name.  In the Edinburgh telephone directory of two years ago there was a Hamilton Brown in Leith but I see they have discontinued using first names.  So I typed in HB into the internet and came up with your enquiry. 

The real reason for trying that line is I can't find a birth for Mary Scott, Margaret's sister, anywhere and began to think she was the illegitmate daughter of Margaret.  Their mother, also Margaret, would have been quite old when she gave birth.  Have you looked at that line yet?  I have some information about their parents.  Mary's birth varies as between 1837 and 1843 depending on whether you believe her marriage or death certificate.  She got married a few days before giving birth to a son but this lad is not the eldest in the family.  I think either they were, heaven forbid, living in sin or the older boys have a different mother.  I cannot find the births of the older two boys either.

I only have the birth certificate for Ann Nelson I think.  What happened to her?

Kind regards

Irene

[marcie dean]

would you like to visit my tree on ancestry? might help clear things. ru sure that mary was a scott and did not come under another name or born outside
edinburgh. ill see what i can find on census just before margaret married john brown.

marjorie

[orkneyinga1]

I will contact you when I get back from holiday. I've tried lots of permutations. Even one where a child was born to Margaret in East Lothian.  I've got the right person as I've quite a few original certificates.

It is nearly a year since I last did any research so I'm a bit woolly about it all. Do you have Margaret in 1841 census? 

Will be out of contact for two weeks. I might just take the paperwork with me and read it over again.

Have you researched any of the other ancestors on the tree.

Irene

[marcie dean]

ill take a look on sp timeline and lrt you know
Marjorie

[orkneyinga1]

Well, didn't take any paperwork with me as couldn't get another thing in the car, nor could I access your reply on my old mobile phone.  I must get into Register House in the next two weeks.

Looking at your family tree might help.  I do not subscribe to Ancestry.com though.  Have you found out anything else?  Do you know the names of Margaret's other siblings? 

Irene