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Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« on: Wednesday 27 May 15 00:25 BST (UK) »
I'm wanting to know the birth place of the father, it says something, co lanark, any help appreciated as i'm not familiar with scotland.
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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 01:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Silverienz,
Looks to me like Greenock, I may stand corrected though!

It is however in the County of Renfrewshire, not Lanarkshire.

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 01:40 BST (UK) »
I read it as Trewan, Co Lanark

Googling that brings up the name in Dumfries-shire, though. But it may have been in Lanarkshire at the time of the certificate.

There's sure to be a Scots person along to correct / confirm, soon.   :)  :)

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 06:14 BST (UK) »
It looks like Greenwell to me. There is a Greenwell in Carnwarth, Lanark. If you google it you should find a little more info on the place. I hope this helps.


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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 06:30 BST (UK) »
Thanx for your answers, these are names I hadn't heard before, gives me somewhere new to look!

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 06:36 BST (UK) »
Hi

Do you know the names of the parents of Charles Henry Moore? If his age is accurate he was born c1862 and Familysearch.org has indexed Scottish Births 1855 to 1875 (including the names of both parents) from the Statutory Registers.

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 09:57 BST (UK) »
Hi

Do you know the names of the parents of Charles Henry Moore? If his age is accurate he was born c1862 and Familysearch.org has indexed Scottish Births 1855 to 1875 (including the names of both parents) from the Statutory Registers.

Andy

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I have posted about Charles Henry MOORE before but am yet to find his birth record. I have his death cert & he seems to be 10 years older (so born around 1852) & his parents are William Henry MOORE & Alice Mary MCKENZIE. However I am yet to find them anywhere! Maybe I am just looking in the wrong place.

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark pls
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 16:47 BST (UK) »
Stumped!

It certainly looks like Trewan. (I cannot, no matter what mental gymnastics I try to perform, imagine that it looks anything even remotely like either Greenock or Greenwell.)

The only Trewan I can think of in Scotland is in Dumfries-shire, near Dalbeattie, which is right down south near the Solway, and quite a long way away from any part of the boundary with Lanarkshire, so if he was from Trewan he couldn't be from Lanarkshire, and if he was from Lanarkshire he couldn't be from (that) Trewan.

I see that there is a death of Charles Henry Moore, aged 82, in 1945. This gives a birth date of 1862/3. His age on Francis' birth certificate in 1893 is 31, which gives a birth year of 1861/2. This is after the start of civil registration in 1855, so unless Charles Henry was the best part of a decade older than he claims on Francis' birth certificate, there should be a birth certificate. But the IGI (which is pretty much complete from 1855 to 1874 for Scotland) doesn't list anyone even vaguely matching. So we could have a case of a change of name.

Does his death certificate (or burial record) say when he came to New Zealand? If it was after 1871, there is a chance that he might be in the 1871 and/or 1881 census.

Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Can anyone read this place name in Co. Lanark plsth
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 27 May 15 20:57 BST (UK) »
Thanx. Charles died in 1939 aged 86. So this would mean he was born around 1853. His death cert says he was in nz for 63 years. So he came out around 1876.