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By Roz, on November 30th, 2006% I’m aware that posting has fallen away recently – this is due to being away for about a week and then various (living!) family commitments coming up. However, John and I are still both plugging away at the layers.
There comes a point where internet research alone is not enough to uncover the truth. I suspect that this is where many people give up. It’s around the point where the free BMDs run out – in England and Wales this means that anyone born before 1837 is hard to find parentage for unless they appear on the 1841 / 1851 . . . → Read More: General Update
By John, on November 5th, 2006% David Lyon, born 1818 in Montrose, Forfarshire, Scotland to Joseph Lyon, a Glasgow-born weaver, and Mary Thomson. He was seventh of their eight children (at least as far as my research can confirm). He’s my g-g-grandfather through my mother’s mother’s father’s side.
Went looking for him in the 1841 census today to try to consolidate all the information I have on him. I already have him in 1851, 1861 and 1871. He would have been about 23 at the time but, with rounding, should be 20. I found two different David Lyon’s at that age. One was a student, the . . . → Read More: David Lyon the Naughty Boy
By Roz, on October 31st, 2006% Task: To consolidate and confirm data regarding Alexander Brand Inglis
The weekend threw up loads up extra information on the Inglis family, which John dealt with. I chose therefore to take what we had learnt from secondary sources on the internet (especially rootsweb.com) and build up a better and more solid picture of Colin Inglis’ father Alexander Brand Inglis.
Firstly, looking at the rootsweb.com data from the other researcher I realised that we had his birth date and baptism date mixed up, so we rectified that. He was actually born on 26th January 1839. Also, according to the rootsweb.com . . . → Read More: Alexander Brand Inglis
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