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By John, on March 15th, 2007% My family has a lot of Daniel Doyles in it. It’s a tradition, or an old charter, or something. Each of them is fascinating in his own way but I choose one in particular to talk about here as he was famous in his time and still remembered today by a certain green side of Glasgow.
First, how is he related to me? My brother is Daniel Doyle, our father is Daniel Doyle, his father was Daniel Doyle, his father was Daniel Doyle, his father was Edward Doyle (how did that happen?), his father was Daniel . . . → Read More: Dan Doyle: The Life and Death of a Wild Rover
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
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!
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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