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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 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 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 My maternal grandfather recently produced some documents to help clarify and confirm some information about the Bird side of the family. We had no idea that he had these documents, but he produced birth certificates for his father (Ernest Alfred Bird), his step-grandmother (Lina Matheson); marriage certificates for his father Ernest to Elsie Lena Moore, and of his grandfather’s second marriage to Lina, as well as a Baptism certificate (never seen one of those before!) for Lina, and Alfred’s death certificate. Bearing in mind my own mother didn’t know that her great grandfather had married twice (his first wife, Emma . . . → Read More: More Bird information I was kindly pointed in the direction of a website (www.theminters.co.uk) recently, which is exceptionally well researched and nicely presented, and details virtually all Minters from the Kent area from the 1600′s onwards. Whilst browsing the data and noting discrepancies and matches with my own research, I came across a bit of information (about Mary Minter, a daughter of Edward Burden Minter and Jane Singleton) that stunned me: “Mary Ann Minter was born before 26 Jan 1834 in Margate, Kent and was baptised on 26 Jan 1834 in St John Thanet, Kent. 1841 census: age unclear (looks like 4 and . . . → Read More: Minter / Ottaway link – help needed! |
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