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Offline Neale1961

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Re: Murdoch McDonald
« Reply #18 on: Yesterday at 03:14 »
You said that you didn't know where the 2 different birth places came from.
I have pointed out the exact origin of that conflicting information.
I do not have access to the full pension record - only the links to the index that I posted.
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Murdoch McDonald
« Reply #19 on: Yesterday at 03:26 »
Quote from: Neale1961 on Yesterday at 03:14
You said that you didn't know where the 2 different birth places came from.
I have pointed out the exact origin of that conflicting information.
I do not have access to the full pension record - only the links to the index that I posted.

Ah thank you.
McDonald - Aberdeen, Scotland (Prior to 1853)
Morgan - Ponterwyd, Wales (Prior to 1800)
Hawkins - Mohaka, Aotearoa (1830- 1870)
Denston - Derby, UK (prior to 1750)
Mullinor - Cheshire, UK (prior to 1850)

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Re: Murdoch McDonald
« Reply #20 on: Yesterday at 07:44 »
KiwiJes,

    Hi, the  FindMyPast record you allude to actually gives you the answer to why Tain and Aberdeen.
    There are two discharge records for Murdoch if you look at the original image, they appear to be the same man. The second of the two images gives Tain as nearest town and Parish of birth.
    I would be inclined to believe this over Aberdeen.

Happy Hunting

PS thanks for the pointer to the records, I was unaware they were now on FindMyPast
Nicoll, Small - Scotland Dennis - Lincolnshire, Baldwin - Notts. Gordon, Fletcher Deeside

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Re: Murdoch McDonald
« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 09:32 »
Quote from: KiwiJes on Yesterday at 01:04
I hate thinking this is as far as I can get when a clan name like McDonald should be relatively easy.
Not so.

It is actually one of the most difficult, partly because it is such a common surname, partly because there are so many variants, and partly because the records from the more populous parts of Scotland are better, in general, than those from the clan territories in the Highlands and Islands.

According to 'Personal Names in Scotland', admittedly published in 1991, M(a)cDonald was the second commonest surname in Scotland (after Smith). I used the 'Home' search screen on SP to check the current numbers of the top ten surnames listed in that booklet. Sm*th is still the commonest, but M*c*d*n*l* with 1,330,882 listings is now third, having been overtaken by Wilson.

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I note it's always spelled McDonald not MacDonald and I am unsure if that has significance either.
It has no significance in the vast majority of cases before the 20th century. Always search for M*donald, or even better M*d*n*l*, which will pick up the variants.
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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