« Reply #18 on: Thursday 19 July 18 01:19 BST (UK) »
we have a birth registration for his sister Barbara born 1st April 1884 linlithgow dalmeny
Birth registration
This implied you had a
birth cert. which doesn't help people trying to help if they don't actually know what source you're using i.e.
not a birth cert. but something else.
It's always best to quote what you actually have to further your research

Annie
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie
Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)
Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling
Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon
Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee
"OLD GENEALOGISTS NEVER DIE - THEY JUST LOSE THEIR CENSUS"