Thomas McDonald born Motherwell COMPLETED

[dollylee]

I am not familiar with researching within Scotland and am trying to help a friend find a birth registration for her grandfather Thomas McDonald.

The 1891 Scotland Census for P.D. Dalziel, Motherwell gives his ages as 1 born Motherwell.
The 1901 Scotland Census for P.D. Dalziel, Motherwell gives his age as 10 born Motherwell.
The date of birth given on his Canadian W.W. 1 Attestation Papers was September 29, 1890 place of birth  Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

His parents were James McDonald and Mary Calder (widow) mn Boyd.  They were married April 2, 1888 in the District of Holytown.

Members of the family think it is very possible that he was actually born less than nine months after the wedding making his birth before January 1889.  The only consistant fact they have found is that he was born in Motherwell.

Although he was known in early life as Thomas McDonald the name his parents used, his children in Canada all grew up as MacDonald. The family has no idea why this change was made.

Any help you could give in finding this birth registration would be very gratefully appreciated.

Thank you.

dollylee





 

[bleckie]

Hi dollylee

When I am looking for McDonald's I always search using wild cards i.e. m*cdonald it gives you both spellings.

Are you sure he was christened Thomas? I have a cousin who was allway's called thomas until I had a look at his birth registration in Edinburgh and found he was registered as Tom.

I would have a look again at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and search use the following as a search criteria.

m*cdonald  forename t* years 1889 -1890 Lanark  Dalziel
unfortunately I have no credits at the moment.

Yours Aye
BruceL

[dollylee]

Thank you so much bleckie.

Using your suggested search I found him on the first try !!!

It also didn't cost me anything because I found a website that gave you 10 free credits if you signed up for their newsletter.  A double win I would say.   

Thanks again.

dollylee