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Good evening everyone.

Happy to report that I now have the certificates and can confirm that Mum was born Lilian Margaret Crout on the 26th September 1919. Mum married Walter Steeden in 1940. Both mum and Walter remarried in 1954 but I have been unable to trace a divorce record.

Have had no luck tracing the mystery half brother in either the Steeden married name or the Crout family name but I will keep trying.

Have traced marriages for all mum's siblings (all now deceased) and now plan to try and trace their offspring.

Granddad was a Lance Corporal in the Seaforth Highlanders and I have paid a small fee so their volunteer researchers to look for his service record.

Cannot tell you how much all this means to me - I have a sense of connection that I never had before and you set me on that road.

Will update you again if I manage to actually trace my cousins!

Thank you again.
Dorothy x

Glad you have now managed to get your Mum's birth certificate.

In 1881 your grandfather John is with his maternal grandmother. Haven't managed to spot his Mum with her husband Thomas Munro in 1881.

John Crout
Age: 10
Estimated birth year: abt 1871
Relationship: Grandson
Gender: Male
Where born: Glasgow
Registration Number: 64
Registration district: Fearn
Civil Parish: Fearn
County: Ross and Cromarty
Address: Hill Of Fearn
Occupation: Scholar
ED: 2
Household schedule number: 85
LINE: 13
Roll: cssct1881_16
Household Members:
Name Age
Rebecca Crout 56
Catherine Crout 18
Rebecca Crout 16
Lauchlan Crout 10
John Crout 10

Hello again!

Promised I would update all you good people and this is the current state of play.

Have managed to trace mum's paternal family back to 1800 in Scotland and more work to do. No joy at all with the maternal side. My grandmother was born in Ireland in 1875 and her name was Josephine Berwise (father Michael, described as a farmer on grandmothers marriage certificate). None of the many sites I have dipped into have unearthed any information. If anyone has any suggestions to move that search on I would be most grateful.

No progress on the half brother but I am not giving up.

Still working on descendants of mum's siblings.

Thank you again for all your help.

Happy New Year to you all.

Dorothy

This s my family

Mary

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