Isaac Mcleod and Beaton?

[gazza855]

Hi all,
        I am trying to trace my line beyond my greatx4 grandparents:

Isaac Mcleod/Macleod and Isabella Beaton.  I believe they were married on 22 Dec 1848 and lived in Inverness-shire.

I thought with a name like Isaac Mcleod it would be easy enough to find and to trace further, but I am having no luck. 

Any ideas/help much appreciated.

Thanks - Gazza.

[RedMystic]

Hi gazza855

Do you know where in Inverness-shire?

I have a Farquer Beaton distantly in my tree - married a MacRury about the same decade of the marriage you're citing. They were on Benbecula (Outer Hebrides/Western Isles). I haven't done any work on him as he's so distant, but I may have a contact who has more on this Beaton family should it be in the right area.

If geography matches, I'm happy to make an inquiry.

Happy hunting.

[gazza855]

Thanks - but I suspect they were from/around Inverness itself, and not the Islands.

[Flattybasher9]

They were married in Inverness, and are in the 1851 census for Inverness.
Your date for the marriage is correct, city of Inverness, and it's the spelling of "McLeod".

Regards

Malky

[MonicaL]

Gazza, have you followed Isaac and Isabella through to their death certs? You may need to confirm their parents' names from their death certs to try to work back to their family lines.

Monica

[MonicaL]

You will I think need to double check death cert details. The 1841 census will not really help you:

Mary Lap 40 b. Foreign Parts
Isaac Mcleod 15 saddler

Address: King Stret, Inverness

Monica

[ingerson]

If you've a FHC (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) they've the marriage and birth records from about 1821-1900.  Was checking them the other day -- it'll be on the Mirco-Fiche.  chuck

[gazza855]

I have now seen the marriage certificate and annoyingly there is nothing on it.  It is a page extract from the register, and written in beautiful handwriting, but none of the entries listed for any of the marriages show parents - bah

I then decided to look at the death certificate for Isaac Mcleod and would you believe it - parents not known!!  bah 

I guess that's the end of that line, and explains why he was living with Mary Lap (40) from foreign parts in the 1841 census as he had not direct parents.

There were 2 Isabella Beatons both born the same year, so I will perhaps need to try and find if one of them stayed and died in Inverness with Isaac to check a death certificate for her line.

[MonicaL]

Official registration did not begin in Scotland until 1855. So, as you have found, the marriage entry you have seen is from the Parish Register which unfortunately seldom includes much info. Pity that whoever reported Isaac's death did not know the names of his parents 

That 1841 census entry for him, just something to bear in mind. 1841 census entries do not include relationships within the household in the main, so hard to guess at what relationship if any there was between Mary Lap and Isaac. For example, you can't discount that Mary Lap could have been Isaac's mother at this stage. In Scotland, married women never 'lost' their maiden name. In early censuses, not unusal to see a married or widowed woman under her maiden name.

Monica