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Johnny Bhoy

By John, on January 17th, 2008%

Dan Doyle, 1890 A second cousin, once-removed, of mine (Anne James) got back in touch recently. We’re both descendants of Edward Doyle, a Scottish miner (ironstone, coal, shale, whatever was paying him at the time) who lived between 1858 and 1937. It was his cousin who was Dan Doyle (left) of Celtic fame, who I mentioned in this post.

Anne got in touch partly to get back in touch and also to talk about a possible link between Dan and another Celtic player. This time Johnny Doyle . . . → Read More: Johnny Bhoy

January 17th, 2008 | Leave a comment

A tale of two Inglis

By Roz, on November 25th, 2007%

A correspondent has recently asked whether Alexander Brand Inglis could possibly be the father of John Inglis, born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis, ploughman, in 1861. I found the following:

John Inglis was born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis on 4th July 1860 in the Parish of Dalbog, Edzell. This would make Alexander Brand Inglis 20 to 21: around the right sort of age. Knowing that Alexander would not have been a ploughman, as he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to a draper in Edinburgh, I looked into other branches of the family nearby and . . . → Read More: A tale of two Inglis

November 25th, 2007 | Leave a comment

William Bird, son of Gervase Bird

By Roz, on April 24th, 2007%

Yes, Gervase.

The (certified copy of the) marriage certificate for William Bird and Priscilla Coucher’s marriage, on June 2nd 1856 in St Pancras, lists the groom’s father as one Gervase Bird, Tailor.

Not what I was expecting, and it flatly contradicts 90% of the trees out there on the internet for the supposed genealogy of William (Some have him as son of George, taken from information on the IGI and assumed to be correct. It isn’t: that William Bird died one year later, see previous posts.).

Investigation shows that there have been just two Gervase Birds on record since 1837. . . . → Read More: William Bird, son of Gervase Bird

April 24th, 2007 | Leave a comment

William Bird: Tailor

By Roz, on January 15th, 2007%

William Bird, my great great great grandfather, was a tailor born in Marylebone, London, in 1829 or thereabouts. In June 1856 he married Priscilla Coucher, in St Pancras’s Old Church. After the birth of four children (that I know of) he died in Q3 1882, aged “54″ according to the death register.

The William Bird who married Priscilla Coucher has around five or six user-submitted entries in the Family Tree section of www.ancestry.co.uk giving his birth year as 1835, and parents sometimes named as George Bird and Elizabeth Mary Cosham. And this is where it doesn’t quite add up. If . . . → Read More: William Bird: Tailor

January 15th, 2007 | Leave a comment

Contact Us!

By Roz, on January 10th, 2007%

My husband and I write this blog because we want to remember what we did, where we went, and who we spoke to, to get our family tree(s) in order.

From trawling such sites as rootsweb, genforum, ancestryaid etc, I know that there are a lot of people out there interested in genealogy and desperate to gather information on ancestors. So far we haven’t put a full tree on the site (come on John!) but we know that this blog is getting hits and being read by people possibly descended from the very people we are writing about. If you . . . → Read More: Contact Us!

January 10th, 2007 | 3 comments
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