How's your eyesight?

[Kathykins]

Could I beg a little help with these certificates please? I've uploaded two OPR records for two William Mor(r)isons, both born in Forgue, one in 1772 and one in 1763 - one of them is my 4x great grandfather!

I can make out most of the names and dates etc, but I could really use the place-names, and I can't read those at all. One of them looks a little like Brae of Bogny which would fit quite nicely because I have traced a line that lived at Bognie Farm in Forgue, but it might be wishful thinking!

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1430

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... ?pos=-1431

Any takers?

Gallery URLs added - AndrewP

[grannysrock]

well here's my take !

Feb 11
George Morison in Kirkland had twins baptized names George & William
before witnesses Theodore Morison in yonder bogny & George Alexander in Kirkland


July 15
John Morison younger in Brae of Bogny had twins baptized named William & Janet
before witnesses William Cormack(???) & Alexander Morison both in Chappel Park

Sally

[Russell]

Nothing wrong with your eyes Sally

Like you I couldn't quite make out the first witness on the second entry.

It looks as though the church roof had a leak and the book/Register was damaged.

Kathy
I would hang on to the other entry as there must be a link somewhere. Twins are not really that common and in a family line of the same name it stretches coincidence too far that they are unrelated.

Russell

[Bethan]

I agree with grannysrock's reading of the records - also checked a google map for present day Forgue as well and (hooray), the wonderful "Yonder Bognie" and "Bogniebrae" still exist.

[grannysrock]

Nothing wrong with your eyes Sally

How I wish that were true ! But I have got 2 new pair of glasses and with my reading glasses I can even read the White/Yellow Pages again ! And instructions for medecines, ingredients on food packaging etc etc - for the first time in six or seven years! Unfortunately I have now also seen how many grey hairs I've got. I had thought like some of my family I was really really late going grey ... Durrrr. So bad I immediately went out and dyed my hair - with completely the wrong product. Now I look rather ginger on top .
But with these Xray specs I also saw what the ref didn't tonight. It should have stayed 1-1 . Nuff Said.

Sorry to digress on your thread Kathykins

Sally

[Kathykins]

I'll let you off Sally - especially since I once went shopping for hair dye without my glasses, and ended up walking around with purple hair for a month!

Thanks so much for your help everyone! I looked back over my research to see if I could find out where I'd seen Bognie Brae before, but I can't find it. I'm 99% sure there's a connection there, especially since William and George are the two names that crop up most often on the tree.It's very frustrating. I know William died prior to 1841, because his widow Isabel is alive, living next door to their son George with another son, Alexander. But there's no marriage record for William and Isabel, and while I guess that he was roughly the same age as Isable (who was born around 1776) there's no gaurantee is there?

Are there any OPR death records for Forge that I could get my hands on? Aberdeen FHS have recorded Forgue kirkyard, but it's unpublished!

[LesleyB]

Hi Kathy
Does not look like there is much for deaths in the OPRs

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/h ... r-cov.html

• 194. FORGUE
  194/1 B 1684-1783 M - D -
  194/2 B 1783-1819 M 1787-1819 D 1787-96
  194/3 B 1770-1819 M - D -
  194/4 B 1820-54 M 1820-52 D -
  RNE

Best wishes
Lesley

[Kathykins]

Darn it. He definitely died after 1809 because that's when I have his last child born. Oh well, I suppose I can't have everything!