Please help with search?

[ClanSutherland]

Hello...
My name is Christine Sutherland-Matthews (from New Zealand) and I've come across a 'brick wall' in my search for my ancestors, but I'm hoping someone may be able to help me if I gave you the current information I have?
 
My grandfather, Alexander Sutherland was born in Avoch, Scotland,... To Donald Sutherland and Margaret Sutherland (McIntosh)
He was born about 1889.
He emmigrated to NZ in the early 1900's. This is the only info I have about my grandfather and great grandparents.

Purely by accident in my search, I came across a site with gravestones and to my surprise came across a headstone that read
Donald Sutherland died 4.6.1934 aged 67 (so he would have been born 1967)
And also Margaret McIntosh died 2.4. 1942 aged 73 (so she would have been born 1969)
They also had a grandson who died 4.5.1943 aged 28.
This was on their gravestone, so I HOPED their birth dates would tied in with the birth of Alexander in 1889? It seemed feasable with those dates...
 
Of course,  this may not be at all correct,  but the likelihood of the two connections seems 'too coincidental'...
 
I guess what I'm asking, hoping, is that somebody might be able to help me confirm their (Donald and Margaret) birthdates/ death dates and maybe even marriage dates, and THEIR parents? So I can start my family tree over (I say over because I had already started,  even as far back as 1750, but only to find I'd started with the wrong great grandparents!!   I am trying to make up a family tree of our Sutherland Clan....
I would be eternally grateful!! I have had NO luck whatsover on the FreeCen site...plus couple of other free sites, so very frustrating and I've been 'stung' more than once with the pay sites, getting nowhere and having to buy credits for a search!  So many other's come up blank even though I KNOW the information is correct as I have the very paperwork  the marriage certificate of my grandfather,  in my hand! (just received this today)
 
If you are able to point me in the right direction I would be eternally grateful.  Please bear in mind I cannot afford all these pay sites anymore!!
 
Kindest Regards
 


 

[andycand]

Hi Christine

The website to use for Scottish research is http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ It is a pay per view site but you can download BMD registration & census images which are not available online anywhere else.

A quick look does have an Alexander SUTHERLAND born in Avoch in 1889 and a check of the 1891 census transcription shows the following family

12 Shore St, Avoch, Rossshire, all born in Avoch

Donald SUTHERLAND 24 Fisherman
Margaret SUTHERLAND 22
Alexr SUTHERLAND 1
John SUTHERLAND 1mo

If you download a copy of the birth registration from Scotlandspeople (SP) Statutory Births this will confirm his mothers maiden name.

There is a marriage in Avoch in 1887 between a Donald SUTHERLAND and a Margaret MCINTOSH, download this from Scotlandspeople Statutory Marriages and this will give you both sets of parents.

Andy

[MonicaL]

Hi Christine and Andy

Welcome to RootsChat, Christine 

I am going to lock this post here to avoid duplication of searches by people trying to help out with searches as you also have added a couple more posts on the Scottish boards here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,573210.0.html and here www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,573206.0.html

Monica