Hi,
Would children of Scottish missionaries in Morocco have been enrolled in english language schools there? Are there Moroccan censuses?
Would the Vice Consulate there have records on the missionaries and their families?
I just received a birth record on one of my kinfolk born July 5, 1899 in Mazagan, Morocco.
Did children born there automatically become citizens of Morocco?
Are there cemeteries there for foreigners?
All the best. dennis
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Dennis
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Hi Dennis,
You could try this site. They may be able to help.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/morocco/
You could try this site. They may be able to help.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/morocco/
Regards Jane x
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Hello Dennis,
I’m afraid I don’t really know much about Morocco but I’ve rounded up some odds and ends that may be useful.
A bit of background reading might be useful for someone in your situation. It will give you a good idea of the sort of country your ancestors ventured into as missionaries. The 1911 Encyclopaedia has articles on Morocco http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Morocco with separate items for Marakesh http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Marrakesh and Mazagan http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mazagan
For Marakesh, population c. 50,000, “Scottish missionaries and a few European traders have become established here”. Mazagan has a population of 12,000 of which 400 are Europeans presumably of all languages and ages. It doesn’t sound like the sort of place that would support much in the way of infrastructure for the resident Europeans. After reading the 1911 items I was left with the impression that at the time the fact you were born in Morocco gave you no special privilege but you can form your own conclusions about that.
I guess the options as far as schooling would have been teach them yourself at home until old enough to be sent far away to a boarding school, or if you could afford it hire someone who could take care of their education, or education by correspondence if they had such a thing in those days, or set up a school if there were enough children of a particular language group to justify such a thing.
I have an old c.1900 edition of the Century Magazine in which an American gentleman goes to stay with the Sultan of Morocco and writes “I had supposed his Majesty to be blessed with wives whose numbers would require a census, - something unknown in Morocco, - until one day he opened the subject thus:” (i.e. the matrimonial subject). I suppose that means there was no census in Morocco and that would fit the general impression. But even if there had been a census you would still be left with the question of whether it was online, or even accessible in some other way or in a language you could understand or contain the sort of information you would hope for. How popular is genealogy in Morocco.
I have a copy of an 1899 Consular report (40 pages, 3mb) and a 1920 report (100 page, 6mb) on Morocco from the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, mainly to do with trade but containing some snippets, maps etc that would give you some additional ideas of what Morocco was like at the time. If you want a copy of these send me a PM with your email address.
Hope this helps,
Alan
I’m afraid I don’t really know much about Morocco but I’ve rounded up some odds and ends that may be useful.
A bit of background reading might be useful for someone in your situation. It will give you a good idea of the sort of country your ancestors ventured into as missionaries. The 1911 Encyclopaedia has articles on Morocco http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Morocco with separate items for Marakesh http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Marrakesh and Mazagan http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mazagan
For Marakesh, population c. 50,000, “Scottish missionaries and a few European traders have become established here”. Mazagan has a population of 12,000 of which 400 are Europeans presumably of all languages and ages. It doesn’t sound like the sort of place that would support much in the way of infrastructure for the resident Europeans. After reading the 1911 items I was left with the impression that at the time the fact you were born in Morocco gave you no special privilege but you can form your own conclusions about that.
I guess the options as far as schooling would have been teach them yourself at home until old enough to be sent far away to a boarding school, or if you could afford it hire someone who could take care of their education, or education by correspondence if they had such a thing in those days, or set up a school if there were enough children of a particular language group to justify such a thing.
I have an old c.1900 edition of the Century Magazine in which an American gentleman goes to stay with the Sultan of Morocco and writes “I had supposed his Majesty to be blessed with wives whose numbers would require a census, - something unknown in Morocco, - until one day he opened the subject thus:” (i.e. the matrimonial subject). I suppose that means there was no census in Morocco and that would fit the general impression. But even if there had been a census you would still be left with the question of whether it was online, or even accessible in some other way or in a language you could understand or contain the sort of information you would hope for. How popular is genealogy in Morocco.
I have a copy of an 1899 Consular report (40 pages, 3mb) and a 1920 report (100 page, 6mb) on Morocco from the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, mainly to do with trade but containing some snippets, maps etc that would give you some additional ideas of what Morocco was like at the time. If you want a copy of these send me a PM with your email address.
Hope this helps,
Alan