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Jessie Ann Inglis

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

December 3rd, 2006 | Leave a comment

Alexander Brand Inglis

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

October 31st, 2006 | Leave a comment

Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)

By Roz, on October 29th, 2006%

In Friday’s post we received the marriage certificate for Colin Inglis and Daisy Henderson (my father’s mother’s parents).

As we had already thought, they were married in Croydon in 1907 – but the certificate has given us confirmation of Daisy’s full name (we still can’t find her birth registry entry) and has also given us the names of both Colin and Daisy’s fathers.

Determined to find Daisy, my first task today has been to continue the search for her birth details.

The marriage certificate shows Daisy’s father’s name as John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, merchant. I therefore began . . . → Read More: Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)

October 29th, 2006 | Leave a comment
 
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