Family of John and Mary Banner

[dave the tyke]

Ev and Monica,
Thanks ever so much. You are certainly quick off the mark North of the Border.
I suspect that you have seen my family tree on ancestry - 'Michael of Manningham'
Christina or Chrissie as she was known, was indeed a vaudeville actress. When her brother Alfred died she stayed on at his house in Bradford, she might have returned to Edinburgh just before her death.
Alf's wife Doris (Jennie) was the sister of my Grandparents who lived next door but one.
I think Alf was taken back to Edinburgh for the funeral and someone in my family  mentioned Berwick. I made a fatal assumption that it was Berwick-on-Tweed and it took a chance remark, much later, to put me back on the right track.
It is a bit difficult to get information for Scotland down here - no Free BMD information.
Dave

[ev]

Dave 

try the scotlandspeople website
once you have registered the index is free to search
that's all i did for searching the banner's

ev

[dave the tyke]

Thanks Ev,
will do when I have more time. Baby sitting my grandson at the moment and I have to wait until he is having a nap before I get on the computer.
Dave

[dave the tyke]

ev
Tried scotlandspeople , registered and got the index but I was unable to view anything other than the number of hits ?
Thanks anyway. I'll leave this thread open for a while to see if there are any more replies
Dave

[ev]

Dave ,
you have to buy credits even to view the index
by using all the various search parameters , and as long as it's not a common
surname , you can usually narrow it down to 1 hit
even viewing the index would not prove it is the person you are after
you would have to view the certificate to get parents names for example to
find if you have the right person
there are limits to what you can view online 100 years for births , 75 years for
marriage , 50 years for deaths
any certificates that fall into those periods would have to be ordered

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,43916.0.html

ev

[musikerin]

Hi Dave, would this be the family descended from Robert Banner and Margaret Anderson, marriage banns 11/14/1806,St. Cuthbert's Parish,  Margaret's father John Anderson. labourer, Water of Leith? My husband's grandfather William was this couple's son. Think there was a Francis, too.

[dave the tyke]

Hi musikerin

The ancestors of Alfred 1891 and Christina 1908 are not my relations so other than some preliminary research to tie the family together, I have not looked much at them. The earliest I have found are Francis 1809 married to Agnes Henness Scott (perhaps the 'Scott' element came from her?) The marriage was 1829 St. Cuthberts Parish. It is quite possible that Francis had a brother William - your husband's ancestor. Interestingly their son Francis Scott Banner 1939 married a Jane Anderson 7 Mar 1856 in Edinburgh.

regards
Dave

[Wendy Marion]

I believe John is the brother of my great grandfather William Banner, son of Robert Banner and Margaret Anderson of Edinburgh. William emigrated to Australia where he married Mary Fitzgerald who had emigrated from County Clare Ireland.  One of my relatives has traced the Anderson family back to the 16thC. but I can go no further back than Robert Banner on that side of the family. I would like to know who were his parents and where he was born.