marshall/crooks

margaret k · Post by **margaret k** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:08 pm

Hello
Could anyone help Please
I am wondering if any one as any idear where i can find out the names of parents for
William Marshall and Jean Crooks they were married in 1730 in Kilmarnock but there is no names of parents
thank you
Margaret

Post by **emanday** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:36 pm

Hi Margaret,

The IGI has this for her...

JEAN CROOKS
Father: JOHN CROOKS

Spouse: WILLIAM MARSHAL
Marriage: 02 JUN 1730 Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland

Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage date.

margaret k · Post by **margaret k** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:12 am

Hi Mary
thank you
I have the marriage its just how to find out William`s parents and jean`s mothers name
Margaret

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:15 am

Hi Margaret
You can often estimate the parent's names by looking at the children a couple had. If they used the Scottish naming pattern then there will be big clues in there. e.g. what is Jean & William's first daughter called?
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scottish ... terns.html
(though I'd be wary of attaching any importance to any names after the third child....

)

Then, of course, you have to work on proving it - thats the hard part once you are back in the late 1600s/early 1700s. This is the point where many people find their backwards research moves much more slowly or grinds to a halt. Sometimes researching sideways or looking at others with the same surname in the same parish or area can prove fruitful with a few little clues.
Worth checking for wills too, just incase you strike lucky.

Best wishes
Lesley

margaret k · Post by **margaret k** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:48 am

Hi
Thank you Lesley that could prove very useful
Margaret

Post by **emanday** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:01 pm

Could this be a child born to a brother?

CROOKS, Jean
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 12 Mar 1725
Christening Date: 28 Mar 1725 Recorded in: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
Father: John CROOKS
Mother: Elizabeth BROUN

Also, I found only two children on there for William MARSHALL and Jean CROOKS

MARSHALL, Sara
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 29 Nov 1732
Christening Date: 3 Dec 1732 Recorded in: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

MARSHAL, Margaret
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 28 Oct 1734
Christening Date: 3 Nov 1734 Recorded in: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

margaret k · Post by **margaret k** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:56 pm

Hi Mary
thank you for that
i am going to go through every thing i have then work from there

Margaret