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help with reading a census entry
« on: Sunday 02 May 21 23:10 BST (UK) »
Hi are there any experts out there who can help to "translate" a placename on a census entry please?
The entry is from the 1851 census and relates to a Catherine McMillan. We have "lost" a Catherine Mcmillan born in the vicinity of Morvern?Strontium around 1835 and are wondering whether the Catherine Mcmillan on this 1851 census entry working as a servant at Largs in Ayrshire, might be her. We can read Argyllshire but not the town of birth. The entry we are looking at is the one above Perthshire. Many thanks

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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #1 on: Monday 03 May 21 00:29 BST (UK) »
The parish is Skipness. It is on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula.

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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #2 on: Monday 03 May 21 08:13 BST (UK) »
I agree with Skipness.

It's not exactly close to either Strontian or Morvern.
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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #3 on: Monday 03 May 21 10:32 BST (UK) »
Thank you!!! Looks like I will have to keep trawling for my missing Catherine!!!


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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #4 on: Monday 03 May 21 19:09 BST (UK) »
You mention a birth place for Catherine around Strontian which is the main village in Sunart.

So, how about this 1851 census entry for Catherine www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a1556d5f4040b9d6e6a5304/cathrine-mcmillan-1851-renfrewshire-paisley-1834-?locale=en

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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #5 on: Monday 03 May 21 19:21 BST (UK) »
Sunart including Strontian is in the parish of Ardnamurchan. Morve(r)n is a neighbouring parish.

There's a baptism of Catherine McMillan, daughter of Donald McMillan and Sussy Rankin, in Ardnamurchan on 16 August 1833.
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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 04 May 21 14:06 BST (UK) »
Replying to Forarian -  thanks for this - not sure how I have managed to miss it. Trying to trace Catherine McMillan G G grandmother - turns up in Liverpool in 1868 with a young baby - claims to be widow. Baby grows up having close connections with "cousins" whose grandparents I have successfully backtraced to Cardross in 1851 (their births locations being giving a Morvern) and also to same street in 1841 where they are living as children with an apparently unrelated young couple. The "grandparents" were Hugh and Ann McMillan born Movern 1826 and 1823. I know from a death certificate that Ann's father was Donald. Hugh died between 1851 - 1855 and no known death record. In 1841, there were other siblings John (b 1831) Janet (b 1832) Catherine (b.1833) and Angus (b.1836) I am therefore working on the assumption (until I prove otherwise!) that the Catherine born 1833, sibling to Hugh and Ann is my missing Catherine. Trying now to identify Catherine on the interim census for 1851 and 1861. Many thanks for your help

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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 04 May 21 14:24 BST (UK) »
Did you dismiss the possible 1851 census entry I posted?

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Re: help with reading a census entry
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 04 May 21 16:39 BST (UK) »
Sorry Monica - def not dismissing your find!!  Not too sure how to respond on roots chat to individual messages - seems only one reply button but I have received messages from a number of people. Just put the background to my search to explain where I am at. The baptism entered by Forfarian looks promising and your 1851 find also promising. Paisley being not that far from Cardross. I had picked up the Catherine and Catharine entries in the 1851 but missed this Cathrine entry. My Catherine was in service in Liverpool in 1871 and her young son was boarded out. If this is the correct entry in Paisley then I need to try and find her in 1861 - it may be that she had already moved to Liverpool rather than "ran away" when she found herself pregnant. Always assumed she had arrived in Liverpool with a young baby but this may be wrong. Baby doens t seem to have been registered in Scotland or England although was baptised in Liverpool when a year old. Thanks again for your help - this search has been ongoing for years!!!
We had hoped that DNA might help but as yet not luck down this avenue