Grahams of Shettleston

[Bryan60]

Just like to say thanks for all the help I received over the weekend with my search. Lots of helpful infomation for me to consider. Alas still at a loss with William & Margaret.

Thanks,
Bryan

[MonicaL]

 As he is adopted he signs James Graham's death cert in 1868 as his adopted son, and by this time has his own son named William (called after his natural father) who then signs James's death cert in 1909 unaware of his fathers natural parents William & Margaret.
 

Remember that James shows in a Cummings family (James Cumming and Christina McCallum) household from 1841-61. However, he married in 1862 knowing who his parents were, and naming them as William Graham and Margaret Addie as you have on the cert. When his adopted dad James Cumming died in 1868, you can see from the cert that James first showed as Cummings and then that was scored through and Graham added, including the relationship of adopted son.

There may have been no family connection between the Cummings/McCallums and the natural parents. Impossible to say at this time....but let's stay hopeful 

Monica

[Bryan60]

Hi Monica,

Looking on ancestry just now for Margaret Addie... there are quite a few born around 1810 in Lanarkshire but I dont subscribe so limited information.Just looking for possibles.

Bryan

[MonicaL]

Ancestry won't really help with this type of search, unfortunately. Best sources would be the official site Scotlands People. You can do lots of searches without have to pay to view the actual images. Also, Family Search https://familysearch.org/search and FreeCen can help https://www.freecen.org.uk/

I had a general look too like you in the last few days but hard to pin anything down so far. Also, have to think that there is the possibility maybe that Margaret Addie and William Graham may not have married which could make things a little harder to follow through...more than now that is!

Monica

[Bryan60]

Thanks again Monica

[Forfarian]

Looking on ancestry just now for Margaret Addie...

You are unlikely to get reliable enlightenment there.

See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0

[Bryan60]

Looking on ancestry just now for Margaret Addie...

You are unlikely to get reliable enlightenment there.

See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=714261.0

Thanks for your advice Forfarian. I've had a read at your topic.

I currently use Scotlandspeople and have exhausted all my options (and credits) looking for Margaret Addie and thought I may as well look a bit further afield for her. I also use familysearch for cross referencing. Most of my certs and censuses have come from the Scotlandspeople site but sometimes you need to look and think outside the box.
Thanks,
Bryan

[Forfarian]

The drawback of looking further afield is that the Scottish birth/baptism, banns/marriages and death information on Ancestry and FamilySearch, and on FindMyPast and MyHeritage among others, is almost all either indexing and transcriptions of the originals which are only available on SP, or trees submitted by other people, many of which are complete fantasy.

[Bryan60]

Thanks again.

Any ides on how I can find this woman?

Bryan