No trace of my Crighton ancestors after 1865

[liverpool annie]

de nada !! ....... 

By the way - did you notice someboby's looking for the Nicol family 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,100974.0.html

Annie 

[alcrighton]

By the way - did you notice someboby's looking for the Nicol family
Annie

Yes I did!  Although I can't yet work out where Alexander got the middle name Nichol from.  I thought his Grandparents might have been John CRIGHTON & Jean NICHOL from an IGI entry but the death record for Alexander's father John CRIGHTON from SP has:

"Husband of Isabella SINCLAIR, Parents: John CRIGHTON & Margaret STEEL"

Isabella SINCLAIR was definitely Alexander's mother and the John CRICHTON, son of John CRICHTON & Jean NICHOL was born the same year as Alexander's father John (Son of John CRIGHTON & Margaret STEEL).

All these IGI entries are extracted ones.

Confused?  So am I!

Cheers,

Al

[JAP]

Al,

Familysearch is down at present so I can't search just now.

Could it be that the entry on the death cert is incorrect?  It does happen 

Perhaps John (father of John and grandfather of Alexander) might have had John with Jean NICHOL, then Jean died and John snr married Margaret STEEL.  If this were the case, the informant might not have known that there had been a previous wife??

JAP

[alcrighton]

Hi JAP,

Funnily enough the possibility of a second marriage occurred to me as I was replying to Annie's post yesterday and like you, I found that Familysearch was down and still it appears to be.  According to the death certificate, Alexander reported the death of his father John and it is entirely possible that he didn't know who his grandmother was.  The only thing against this hypothesis is that the IGI has 2 extracted records for births of John CRIGHTON/CRICHTON in 1799 - one the son of Margaret STEEL & the other the son of Jean NICHOL.

Regards,

Al

[JAP]

Sorry Al, had FamilySearch been up, I would have seen the two entries.  So it's clearly just a coincidence.

Alexander's middle name of Nicoll might have come from a more distant relative, or a friend of his parents, or the minister, or ....

The parentage of Alexander's father, John CRICHTON as given on the death cert (i.e. mother Margaret STEEL) is right as is shown by John's birthplace of Airlie (on the 1851 census information provided by Dorothy earlier in this thread); John CRICHTON b 1798 with mother Jean NICOLL, was, on the other hand, bap Dundee according to the IGI.

John CRICHTON m Margaret STEEL, 14 Apr 1782, Airlie
They had, all extracted entries, all spelled CRICHTON, and all in Airlie:
Issabel, bap 17 Mar 1783
Elisabeth, bap 5 Apr 1784
Agnes, bap 2 May 1785
Margaret, bap 28 Jan 1787
William, bap 27 Jun 1797
John, bap 29 Jun 1799
George, bap 4 Dec 1800
(Another of those families with an unexplained gap - this time from 1787 to 1799).

JAP

[liverpool annie]

Al!

Couldn't have been involved with these could he
1792-1802 French Revolutionary Wars

Annie 

[alcrighton]

Annie!

As far as I know, Alexander (b. 1824) was the first CRIGHTON to venture over to the other side of the Channel but nothing would surprise me with my ancestors! 

So your thinking is that Alexander's grandfather uprooted himself from Airlie to go and help Robspierre cut off a few heads and that's why he produced no issue between 1787 & 1797.

Any idea how I would find out?

Cheers,

Al 

[liverpool annie]

And now for something completely different .......... 

http://tinyurl.com/djr22

and click ....  1: fiche(s)

Annie

[alcrighton]

Thanks Annie!

This Maurice CRIGHTON could well be a decendent of Alexander's son James who appears to have married and stayed in France.

I know a little about French naturalisation from my time in France 10-15 years ago.  The children of an English mother and French father that I knew had to decide at the age of 18 whether they wanted British or French nationality since at that time the French authorities did not recognise dual nationality.

I might just stump up the 23€ they want for 54 units which means I'd have 53 left over.  Can I help you find any of your French ancestors with my spare 53 units?

Cheers,

Al