Help reading two words

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:29 pm

speleobat2 wrote:Annette, you're good! I looked and looked at that and didn't see "wright".

How about "ship" for the first little word?

This OPR has been sitting in my "Now you see them, Now you don't" file for a long time. My 2x great grandfather was George Clerihew born around 1805. I've never found his parents or birth OPR. He just appears marrying Sophia Chalmers in 1829.

At the same time George Clerihue and Mary Shipway just appear in Aberdeen having baby George in 1803--the perfect time to be my 2x great grandfather--except then all three disappear from the records!!!

After over two years, I still can't confirm who my 2x's parents were so I'm stuck and rechecking the files... Maybe someday!

Carol

So is this just a transcription error in 1841 and is really Sophia's husband?

Piece: SCT1841/168 Place: Aberdeen -Aberdeenshire Enumeration District: 1
Civil Parish: West Parish Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: John Knox
Folio: 5 Page: 60
Address: Hutcheon Street

Surname First name(s) Sex Age Occupation Where Born Remarks
CLERIHEW George M 65 Porter Aberdeenshire
CLERIHEW Sophia F 35 Aberdeenshire
CLERIHEW Ann F 12 Linen Spinner Aberdeenshire
CLERIHEW Isa. F 6 Aberdeenshire
CLERIHEW George M 3 Aberdeenshire

Regards,
Annette

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:33 pm

Hi Annette,

Yes, that's an error though it was on the original census too. That's my family, but if you look on the 1851 Census George Sr. is suddenly 46! Sophia was born in 1798, have her OPR, so her age is out on both censuses too.

Carol

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:49 pm

speleobat2 wrote:Hi Annette,

Yes, that's an error though it was on the original census too. That's my family, but if you look on the 1851 Census George Sr. is suddenly 46! Sophia was born in 1798, have her OPR, so her age is out on both censuses too.

Carol

Right Carol I thought as much.

Pity you couldn't find a link to that George Clerihew the builder - he was worth a bob or two!!!

Regards,
Annette

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:03 pm

Yes, and that family was so easy to track. No awards for being "Most Obscure" like my family! That George's son Francis did die in an insane asylum though. Nothing good about that!

Carol

momat · Post by **momat** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:56 pm

A list of Scottish occupations that may be useful to have on board.
http://www.scotsfamily.com/occupations.htm

Post by **SarahND** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:06 pm

Hi Maureen,
Is that the same page that used to be on scotroots.com and has a link in the Sources tab at the top of the page here? I went to check and that link no longer works, so I'm wondering if the website had a change of name. If so, we should change the link in the tab.

Regards,
Sarah

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:26 am

“A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language” published 1825 also has a definition: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tw8 ... =&as_brr=1

SQUARE-WRIGHT, s. A joiner who works in the finer kinds of furniture, Lanarks. Perhaps one who does every thing by square and rule, as contrasted with one whose coarser work does not require such accuracy. V. WRIGHT, s.

That’s a definition from the time and there’s even a ‘perhaps’ about it. I think a House Framer who called himself a Square-Wright would have been kidding himself.

Alan

momat · Post by **momat** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:18 am

Hi Sarah.
All I know is that the site was the result of a "Google" and it is called "Scots Family"
Hope it is of some use.

Cheers,

ROY M · Post by **ROY M** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:37 pm

Hi speleobat2 and all,
Is the small word not just a badly written abreviation of the word "Esquire". If you look further up the page there is an Alex Stewart with a similar thing and it's definitely Esqr.

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 12:51 pm

Good morning!

Maureen,

Thanks for that site. I did have it bookmarked, but I need to clean out my favorites list! It was lost in there!

Roy,

I had thought of Esquire, but the first letter on this one looks like an S and squarewright was a real occupation back then. Thanks for looking though!

I haven't found anything more definite on this couple, but I'm still looking. Mary Shipway was probably English. It interests me that there are very few Shipways in Scotland at the time, but a lot in England so how did this one lone girl end up in Aberdeen and what happened to the family after George Jr. was born? A real puzzle!

Carol