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Stumbling block - looking for family in Douglas La
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Elaine | Report | 13 Aug 2009 19:00 |
Can anybody please help with information on - Alexander Hutchison who married a Katharine Morison. I am looking for birth / marriage / death. Their children were Margaret 1791, Jean 1793, Archibald 1796, Alexander 1798, John 1800. I found in the parish records on John. It stated John son of deceased Alexander and Katharine Morison. |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 12:37 |
Is there no-one that can help me? |
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Alan | Report | 14 Aug 2009 12:52 |
Elaine, I dont really know if this is your relation but its another avenue to explore ? |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 12:53 |
No Alan they are all born in Douglas and I find that is my problem |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 12:58 |
Alexander born in 1798 was a spirit merchant and they lived in main street Douglas. His father who I am looking for I am unsure of his occupation ? miner or work at the cotton mills I think in Wigtown or close by. |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:08 |
Just to add all the family were still in Douglas when my gggrandfather migrated to Australia in 1854 on the Tea Clipper Cairngorm. I have a family photo of his Parents and family his father Alexr b 1798 and his mother Joanna Gold b 1797. Great possession. |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:12 |
found this on Igi maybe this is alexanders birth |
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Alan | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:18 |
I accept its not your man but the dates are the dates and place of buisiness within the Directories, not birth......................if you have Ancestry you could search "UK & US Directories 1680-1830" |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:19 |
IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 |
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Alan | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:23 |
Are'nt you glad Sablon is around to-day ? |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:44 |
Thanks Sablon and Alan . I went to the Lds church around the corner from me and ordered in the parish film. That is how I got to where I am today. But Alexander dying in the pregnancy of his last child no death recorded that I could find. If I could find a date of some sorts I will know where to go from there I found a Katharine Morison born in 1759 to a Morison and an Isobel Johnston but unsure at this stage if this is her. I even checked out the Scottish CD but because I did not have a date to start with rather futile. I even bought credits to check out some certificates but not relatives of mine. I think they are either lost destroyed or???. |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:47 |
Just to add this has been a two year quest. I was hoping oneday that some-one attached somewhere to my family had some info onsite somewhere I have googled and googled every possible thought that I could think of but no luck to date. I have even been on acestry numerous times at the local library. Gros / Scotlands people etcetera etcetera. |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 13:53 |
Alan I will check out the Edinburgh site. Maybe I was wrong with my assumptions that everything would come under the Glasgow banner. Not having a sound knowledge of the workings of the different branches in Scotland. |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:07 |
i have looked at igi and cannot find anything else that might relate to the family |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:10 |
There is also a little mystery. My GGGrandfather was born in Carmichael not Douglas. Andrew 1833. All the rest of his family born in and registered in Douglas. I think maybe Alexr and Katharine - just shook hands. I know I have read about a hand ceremony. |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:13 |
Thanks Sablon for your help. |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:15 |
that first alexander died 1821 are you sure on Johns birth sometimes other children were born and given a deceased chillds name , |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:22 |
so this is your x grand father son of alexander 1798 |
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Elaine | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:25 |
I have a copy of the birth from the Parish register film. for 1800. |
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sablon | Report | 14 Aug 2009 14:28 |
Alexander hutchison 1833 son of |