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By Roz, on December 3rd, 2006% For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.
Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis
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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