Seeking Thomas Thompson

[anne_p]

A wee bit late to the party but, just to confirm.
The family are on the 1901 census in Wallsend but, places of birth for children named Edward and James are round the wrong way
States James born Scotland and Edward born Ireland
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7814/records/30714092

Edward was born in Coatbridge/Old Monkland in 1899

Index from Scotland's People:
THOMSON
EDWARD

MCALINDEN (MMN)
M
1899
652 / 2 / 1222
Coatbridge or Old Monkland.
This birth record will also confirm the date and place of parent's marriage

[Kiltaglassan]

States James born Scotland and Edward born Ireland
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/7814/records/30714092

(Subscription Site)

FamilySearch also has the birth discrepancy-
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSMY-NBW?lang=en
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSMY-NB4?lang=en

[paja]

Thanks both for noting this.  I see in the 1911 Census they are correctly identified by country of birth, although Edward's birth area is recorded as 'Cudbrig' which I can't find.  It could have been a mis-heard 'Kirkcudbright', except that (a) the 1911 census was completed by the head of household themself, not spoken to an enumerator; and (b), Kirkcudbright is nowhere near Coatbridge.

[aghadowey]

Thanks both for noting this.  I see in the 1911 Census they are correctly identified by country of birth, although Edward's birth area is recorded as 'Cudbrig' which I can't find.  It could have been a mis-heard 'Kirkcudbright', except that (a) the 1911 census was completed by the head of household themself, not spoken to an enumerator; and (b), Kirkcudbright is nowhere near Coatbridge.

Why do you think 1911 census would be completely accurate if his birthplace was listed as 'Derry Faugh' or even 'Derry Taugh'? Have literate was he?
If you say 'Cudbrig' aloud it could be mistaken as Coatbridge, especially to an English person listening to an Irish person listing a place in Scotland.

[anne_p]

I live in Lanarkshire and the spelling Cudbrig is fairly close to how locals would say Coatbridge

Father Thomas was Irish and I guess that he has written it as he heard it when he briefly lived there.

Common to many parts of Scotland   "bridge" would be pronounced as Brig.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coatbridge

[paja]

Anne - many thanks for this reasoned explanation.