Looking for the birth location of Barbara M Auld b1796/7

[Leashl]

Hi,

Barbara Auld m Walter Currie in Canongate, Edinburgh in 1822, father Alexander Auld. Barbara and Walter moved to Marylebone, Middlesex UK by 1841. I am trying to confirm Barbara's birth location. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Kay99]

Not that it helps much but her father was listed as a Wright living in the Parish of Week(??) at the time of the marriage

Added - Could the parish be Wick, Caithness

[ColC]

Marriage on SP
BARBARA AULD to WALTER CURRIE 18/05/1822 Canongate

Children: WALTER CURRIE/BARBARA AULD

ALEXANDER CURRIE 13/04/1825 St Cuthbert's
CURRIE JOHN COCKBURN 3/08/1823 St Cuthbert's
WALTER CURRIE 28/02/1827 St Cuthbert's

The family and many others 1841?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQJ2-GV3?lang=en

Alexander 1851.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGN6-4CR?lang=en

John & Walter junior 1861.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7PD-TY1?lang=en

Barbara 1861.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7PD-TL6?lang=en

According to the censuses and death below Barbara was born late 1790s, Walter was 51 in 1841.

CURRIE, BARBARA    74 
GRO Reference: 1871  S Quarter in MARYLEBONE  Volume 01A  Page 411

No registration for Barbara Auld in Scotland, although there were 14 Auld’s, father Alexander, spread throughout Scotland, none in Edinburgh. It is possible that the record was not recorded or has not survived?

Best of unlikely possibilities below.

Barbara was one of 5 born Inverurie, plus 1 Gall in New Macher in 1810.
BARBARA GAULD 3/01/1801 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
ALEXANDER GAULD/ELSPET HARPER
 
BARBARA GOOLD Only Child 19/03/1797 Carmyllie, Angus
ALEXANDER GOOLD/MARION GIBSON

Colin

[Leashl]

Not that it helps much but her father was listed as a Wright living in the Parish of Week(??) at the time of the marriage

Added - Could the parish be Wick, Caithness

I think this is very significant - thank you. I had a Caithness suspect but couldn't make the Edinburgh connection!

[Leashl]

Marriage on SP
BARBARA AULD to WALTER CURRIE 18/05/1822 Canongate

Children: WALTER CURRIE/BARBARA AULD

ALEXANDER CURRIE 13/04/1825 St Cuthbert's
CURRIE JOHN COCKBURN 3/08/1823 St Cuthbert's
WALTER CURRIE 28/02/1827 St Cuthbert's

The family and many others 1841?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQJ2-GV3?lang=en

Alexander 1851.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGN6-4CR?lang=en

John & Walter junior 1861.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7PD-TY1?lang=en

Barbara 1861.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7PD-TL6?lang=en

According to the censuses and death below Barbara was born late 1790s, Walter was 51 in 1841.

CURRIE, BARBARA    74 
GRO Reference: 1871  S Quarter in MARYLEBONE  Volume 01A  Page 411

No registration for Barbara Auld in Scotland, although there were 14 Auld’s, father Alexander, spread throughout Scotland, none in Edinburgh. It is possible that the record was not recorded or has not survived?

Best of unlikely possibilities below.

Barbara was one of 5 born Inverurie, plus 1 Gall in New Macher in 1810.
BARBARA GAULD 3/01/1801 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
ALEXANDER GAULD/ELSPET HARPER
 
BARBARA GOOLD Only Child 19/03/1797 Carmyllie, Angus
ALEXANDER GOOLD/MARION GIBSON

Colin

Thanks Colin - good hunting and plenty there to keep me busy!

[softly softly]

Info only--1871 census for Barbara.

Frederick Church Head 27 General dealer b Belgium
Elizabeth Church Wife 37 Laundress b    Marylebone, Middlesex
Elizabeth Church Daughter 6 b Marylebone, Middlesex
Ann Church   Daughter 2 b   Marylebone, Middlesex
Ann Church   Mother 59 Servant b Blackheath, Kent
Barbara Cunnie Mother-in-law 70 b Scotland

Death of Walter
CURRIE, WALTER       aged 67 
GRO Reference: 1847  M Quarter in MARYLEBONE  Volume 01  Page 184

SS

[ColC]

Not that it helps much but her father was listed as a Wright living in the Parish of Week(??) at the time of the marriage

Added - Could the parish be Wick, Caithness

Personally I do not see the word as Wick but I cannot find anything better.

However by strange coincidence, which might be a red-herring, I came across the following on SP and it might be one for Forfarian?


ALEXANDER OLD  Married  JANET NICHOLSON 3/06/1775 Wick
The Scottish word for Auld.

I can only find one child?
ISOBEL OLD 7/03/1796 Carrington or Primrose, Midlothian.
ALEXANDER OLD/JANET NICHOLSON

Colin
 

[Forfarian]

Added - Could the parish be Wick, Caithness
Personally I do not see the word as Wick but I cannot find anything better.

I read it as Week but that's pretty much how it might sound to someone unfamiliar with the name, so I'd go with Wick.

However by strange coincidence, which might be a red-herring, I came across the following on SP and it might be one for Forfarian?

I'm flattered but why specifically me?

ALEXANDER OLD  Married  JANET NICHOLSON 3/06/1775 Wick
The Scottish word for Auld.

Correct.

I can only find one child?
ISOBEL OLD 7/03/1796 Carrington or Primrose, Midlothian.

Two more; see screenshot. It looks as if Alexander could perhaps be an itinerant worker. The original baptism records might shed some light on that.

[Leashl]

Thanks all for your great help. I will post again once I have put everything together.