Peter Duncan, Registrar Montrose

[RABGAB]

Hi everyone,

Throughout the years of tracing my family in Montrose, I have noticed that an awful lot of birth, marriages and death were registered by the one person, Peter Duncan, Registrar for the District of Montrose over at least the period 1880-1900 (and most likely earlier and later). Now he must have witnessed an awful lot of events and social changes in the area, and it has prompted my interest in him as an individual.

I would like to know more about this person and was wondering if anyone would have any access to him. My access to a worldwide paid site has just lapsed and I was wondering if you can perform a census search on him with the keyword of Registrar.

Unfortunately I know nothing about him as yet, date of birth etc,   :(I am awaiting some assistance from the Montrose Library, but any help that I received, i'd be most appreciative of...I know I am asking a big challenge! Actually that's not quite true, I can confirm he is one of the registrars that had beautiful easy to read handwriting all these years later! 

I don't even know if Registrars moved around from District to District or if they remained in the one area. 

[CaroleW]

1891 census - 9 Mill Street Montrose - all b Montrose

Peter Duncan 54 registrar of births
Margaret   44
Arthur S   10
Montrose ED 18 Page11 Line 20

[CaroleW]

1881 2 Dorward Street Montrose

Peter Duncan 46 registrar of births & C (that's what it says)
Margaret   30
Arthur Stuart   Under 1 Month
Montrose ED 18 Page 7 Line 15

[CaroleW]

Possible 1861 entry but you really need to lookup his marriage on SP to check parents

17 North Street Montrose

Peter Duncan 79 b Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire Flax Spinning Mill Overscer
Elizabeth 6 shown as wife!!! b Lunan
Peter 27 b Montrose - Lawyer's Muncoine Clerk
Montrose ED 17 Page  8 Line 5

[CaroleW]

Submitted IGI entry

PETER DUNCAN   Birth:  30 JUL 1832   Christening:  30 JUL 1832   Montrose, Angus,   
Father:  PETER DUNCAN    Mother:  ELIZABETH ALEXANDER 

Quite a variation in his birthyear

[RABGAB]

Thank you so much Carole for looking at this for me!

OOOH a 6 year old wife! Goodness, I am hoping it's just a transcribing error!

That's a wonderful start and now I can go and trawl Scotlands People and try to see what else I can find!

[RABGAB]

Using the information that Carole kindly found, I have found what may be the best fitting death in 1914 in Montrose. 

I'll order the certificate and establish that it is the same person!

[RABGAB]

And I see using google maps that when the Duncan family resided in Mill Street at the time of the 1891 census that my relatives lives literally just around the corner.

Makes you wonder how big a place was Montrose in 1891, would he have been likely to know the families around him, especially when the family came in year after year to register a birth and often a death a short time later...

[ev]

hi all 

deceased online has peter duncan death 4th dec. 1914
burial 8th dec. 1914 rosehill cemetery(angus)

as already found SP has peter duncan death 1914 montrose angus born c1833

1841 north street montrose angus(freeCEN)
peter duncan 51 flax spinner
elizabeth duncan 46
elizabeth duncan 15 flax spinner
alexander duncan 12
peter duncan 8

IGI has peter duncan marriage elizabeth alexander 4th dec. 1814 montrose
angus

ev