ARE YOU FROM ABERDEEN........ CAN YOU HELP.....

Carol Basford · Post by **Carol Basford** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:27 am

I AM TRYING TO TRACE AN OLD FRIEND NAMED ANGERLENE MCPHEARSON WHO CAME ORIGINALLY FROM WATSON STREET ABERDEEN, I KNOW SHE HAD AT LEAST ONE BROTHER NAMED ANGUS.
AND SHE WAS WORKING IN LONDON DURING THE MID 60'S, I KNOW SHE MARRIED AND I THINK HAD TWO CHILDREN THE ELDEST BEING A SON, SHE WOULD NOW BE IN HER LATE 50'S OR EARLY 60'S, ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT.
THANKS

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:58 pm

Hello Carol

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:33 pm

Hello Carol
I'm In Leeds but I might be able to help all the same. This is what I like to call upside down genealogy where I have traced the whereabouts of living souls in a number of ways including the following.
Even if you don't know when, it is highly likely that your freind married in her home town of Aberdeen. If so, it is a simple matter to view mariages over an estimated time scale,say ten years, at GROS. You then widen the years until you find what you want. If you are not local anymore they can do it for you although I would reccommend asking or apointing someone yourself. You might know the names of her parents and where they lived. These are useful identifiers.
The correct marriage entry when found will show the normal place of abode of both parties together with your freind's new married name.
Armed with this information you can then go to 1stlocate.co.uk who specialise in tracing people for many different reasons including debt recovery. They are also in Leeds by the way, tel 0113 2284452. I think they use the electoral rolls. Don't be put off by the number of years that have passed, it just takes a little longer. This procedure takes about a month and costs between twenty and thirty pounds. If they don't succeed it doesn't cost anything.
This is such fun. I hope you find your friend
Malcolm Morris

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:35 pm

Hello ,
have you tried looking on somewhere like friends reunited http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/ to find either your old friend or her brother through a school the once attended in Aberdeen. If I remember correctly there is a good search facility on that site.

Incidentally I think the correct spelling of your friend's name may well be :
Angeline McPherson, which may make your search a little easier.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:35 pm

www.1stlocate.co.uk

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:30 am

There could be another way to do this from my repertoire of living people searches. If your friend married before the death of one or both of her parents you should be able to trace her through their death certification. You know the names of the parents and their old address although the latter detail is not essential.
The registrar in Aberdeen can do a search of a named death from which you can then obtain a death certificate. You can do this over the phone with a credit card number. They may refer you to GROS for a copy of the certificate. The certificate will provide the name and relationship of an informant together with his or her address. This might be your friend or a brother, sister or in-law. Whoever it is you now have an address to write to or just telephone.
However, people move on and if they are anything like me, do so quite frequently. Gypsies and Artic Skua have firmer roots than me and mine.
Anyway, if the house number is say 25 and you don't get a reply, you then write to numbers 23 and 27 with your enquiries. Do enclose a stamped addressed envelope each time. You may get lucky but sometimes the road, as in the song, is long.
Frankly i think the first suggestion is best. Let someone else do all the work. It might even be cheaper.
Best wishes
Malcolm Morris