LOOKUP REQUEST

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:41 am

I'm ahead of you there David, I checked out some of my "not related" Extracts and closely inspected Agnes McKissock married to a John McCreadie (Coastguardsman), married December 1858 at Ballantrae. Don't believe it's that Agnes though.

Any idea which county Sarah WAS born?

Post by **AnneM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:02 pm

Since David is being gnomic I'll not spoil the fun but all I'll say is that in 1891 they're in central Scotland (probably indexed as McReadie if Ancestry is correct) and that young Sarah was also born there. Should not be a problem to find.

Anne

q98 · Post by **q98** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:06 pm

Found her. Sarah was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire c. 1892.

Post by **AnneM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:26 pm

Other things to note. The family moved as a unit including ma and step pa. Agnes's death in 1897, which is easily found if you don't look for McCreadie on the certificate or expect the age to resemble any other one you've seen, offers McQuaters as a maiden name........new one on me!!

Anne

Post by **AnneM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:53 pm

BTW you will find the family in 1871, wee John's BC not to mention the BC of the immediately predeceasing John and the marriage of James and Agnes if you are pretty inventive with the spellings of McCreadie and variants and also Agnes's surname.

See I can be sphinx-like too!!

Anne

Isabella's birth can also be found using wild cards. Her parents were married back in Ireland and she has an additional Christian name.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:03 pm

AnneM wrote:Other things to note. The family moved as a unit including ma and step pa. Agnes's death in 1897, which is easily found if you don't look for McCreadie on the certificate or expect the age to resemble any other one you've seen, offers McQuaters as a maiden name........new one on me!!

Anne

McWATERS/McQUATERS/McQUHATERS I can live with, and knowing that, the surname on the 1890 marriage register of son Jon is very obviously McQUHATERS, - "QU" being the Old Scots form for "W", e.g. it wasn't "What", it was "Quhat"

But I'm annoyed at myself that I saw "ss" at the end, and didn't consider the now obvious "rs".

The GRAHAM re-marriage is now easy to locate, in N Ayrshire

Then there's an 1854 marriage in Portpatrick !!

Me?, gnomic

, - it's just that I very rarely provide everything on a plate

Jim wrote:I'm ahead of you there David, I checked out some of my "not related" Extracts and closely inspected Agnes McKissock married to a John McCreadie (Coastguardsman), married December 1858 at Ballantrae. Don't believe it's that Agnes though .........

Correct! See above. That occupation didn't fit ................

David

Post by **AnneM** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:08 pm

At least you don't look in the least like a gnome David. I've got the better height for being gnome like!!

Anne
PS Quite right not to provide everything on a plate. Spoils the fun for the searcher.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:19 pm

And James death register entry is now easy to find, given the fix on the years that must be involved, and the most likely place, - which gives his parents. - now, I wonder if they turn up on familysearch.org ..........

Which leads to an occupation new to me - "charfiller" !, - Google only shows some connection to ironstone mining, or an ironworks, both of which there were in Dalry ...........

David

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:05 pm

DavidWW wrote:And James death register entry is now easy to find, given the fix on the years that must be involved, and the most likely place, - which gives his parents. - now, I wonder if they turn up on familysearch.org ..........

....snipped..........

David

Nothing that I can see, but given the 1854 marriage in that Mull o' Galloway port, it should come as no surprise that there's a magnificently informative 1855 birth register entry, with connections across the North Channel which could well explain the lack of familysearch.org info ...........

I can't see any later records on familysearch.org for wains of James McCREADIE and Agnes McQUATER, but I suspect that this is due to spelling variants that even the FamilySearch search engine is not covering for paw and/or maw ..............

BTW the 1855 dochter, married and survived to a reasonable age, and departed this mortal coil in the registration district of Rankinston

, - full circle

Now, here's the challenge

, - who can find the family in the 1861 census

David

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:09 pm

PS I've got plenty of examples involving spelling variants in one surname, but this has to be among the best that I've come comes across involving variants in both the surnames of a couple

David