Can't find a birth record for Helen Loag

Brenda · Post by **Brenda** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:21 am

Helen Loag dgt of Samuel Loag & Mary Ann Muir Murray, married Robert McCracken [ son of John McCracken & Janet McCreadie ] June 10th 1910. Glasgow. On the Cert her age is 20 so she was born abt 1890?

Death cert for Helen McCracken [ nee Loag] March 16th 1952 gives her age as 62

The 1891 Census shows a Samuel Loag [ can't read his age] B Glasgow
Mary, wife , 24, B Gourock
NELLIE daughter, B Glasgow.

Do you think this is Helen??

Post by **SarahND** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:59 am

Hi Brenda,
Nellie is a recognized nickname for Helen (also Ellen and Elinor) so I think you have probably found her! Loag is not a very common name-- good find!
All the best,
Sarah

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:24 am

Hi Brenda

Ancestry thinks that Samuel is 22 years old......I haven't veiwed the original so can't comment.....

1891 CENSUS
Name: Samuel Loag
Age: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1869
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Mary
Gender: Male
Where born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Registration Number: 626A/2
Registration district: Cadder Eastern District
Civil parish: Cadder Eastern District
County: Lanarkshire
Address: Gartsherrie Cottages
Occupation: Grocer's Vanman
ED: 5
Page: 4
Household schedule number: 16
Line: 18

Household Members:
Mary Loag 24
Nellie Loag 8 Mo
Samuel Loag 22

I do think though, like Sarah, that this likely is your Helen.

Best wishes
Jean

Brenda · Post by **Brenda** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:35 am

Hi Sarah , thanks for telling me about the nicknames.
Hate to tell you how much I wasted on SP viewing wrong records

Jean, that info ties in with the MC for Samuel & Mary, they married in Cadder.

Thanks to both of you

Post by **SarahND** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:47 pm

Hi Brenda,
I only know about Nellie because I have been searching for a Nellie for years and have still not found when and where she was born, nor who her parents were

She was born about 1888-9 and died Jan 1910, thereby only getting into one U.S. census (1890 was destroyed). Around that time in the U.S. Nellie was a very popular name-- nearly every family seems to have had one in the area I am looking.

Regards,
Sarah

Brenda · Post by **Brenda** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:58 pm

IF the Nellie in the 1891 Census is the one I'm looking for she was born 1890?

I've just been on SP again but there is no record there

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:25 am

Hi Brenda,
The free search on SP is telling me that there is one Nellie Loag born in 1890 in Glasgow City. Have you looked at her and she is not the right one? I started with *el* l*g* and gradually narrowed it down from there.
All the best,
Sarah