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Sorry No sign of a WIGHTMAN marrying a Flora/Catherine McDonald

JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 29 AUG 1820 9 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 10 SEP 1820 10 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 04 FEB 1821 11 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 18 FEB 1821 12 John Wightman Date: 1821 13 John Wightman Date: 1821 14 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 28 MAR 1823 15 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 27 APR 1823 16 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 08 FEB 1823 17 JOHN WIGHTMAN Date: 16 FEB 1823 18 John Wightman Date: 08 FEB 1823 19 John Wightman Date: 08 FEB 1823 these are the only close ones....on scots origins -no actual whitemans,and no matches for either name for lanark or renfrew,so either the site hasnt a full list or the record you have is made up.

ive had a look at freecen there is a 74% coverage of renfrewshire.

Thanks for doing that but I have checked all of these John Wightman's and none of them match and I've checked the census records for Neilston in 1841 but no show. Thank you so much for your help with this but it looks as though I'll just need to keep searching for my missing family! Maybe a trip to Edinburgh GROS is in order.

Have searched the 1841 on Ancestry. Only possible connections I can find are two Whiteman girls, Bell 15 yrs and Mary 14 yrs (b. c 1826 and 1827), Cotton Mill Workers, living in a household of a family called Douda, from Ireland, in Neilston, Renfrewshire. Both girls were born in Scotland but out of county. Possible sisters of John?? Will keep looking. Regards Ellen.

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Hi Ellen, Yeah, I came across them also and thought they may be related in some way, but when I checked their births on the IGI they had different parents!

And there's one more Jean Whiteman, 15, b.c1826 (ages rounded down to nearest 5 for 15 or over, so could still be related to the other two), in Ireland. Living with loads of others at a place in Neilston, Renfrewshire, a cotton bleacher. Regards Ellen.

There are certainly a lot of coincidences in Neilston but I am still not convinced! I just don't understand why I can't find a record of John being born or of his parent's marriage! John was married in Manchester so they maybe didn't live in Scotland for very long, I just don't know. And also John was an Army man so perhaps his father was also moved about a lot! Goodness knows but thanks again!