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ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Sep 2016 21:46

Possibilities for your mother's birth (the first two are the same birth):

1927 OTTLEY ELIZABETH GEMME(L) F ST ROLLOX GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/08 2355

1927 OTTLEY ELIZABETH GEMME(L) F CAMLACHIE GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/02 1315

1920 OTTLEY ELIZABETH REID F PAISLEY /RENFREW 573/01 1410

Do you have your mother's birth or marriage cert to see what names it gives for her parents?

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Sep 2016 21:43

Are you sure James's wife's name was Mary?

These are the only James Ottley marriages showing on Scotlands People from 1880 onwards - and last two are too recent to be your mother's parents' marriage.:

1881 OTTLEY JAMES
ANDERSON CATHERINE
STEVENSTON /AYR 615/00 0006

1918 OTTLEY JAMES DOCHERTY
MARTHA LORANCE PAISLEY /RENFREW 573/01 0261

1937 OTTLEY JAMES ALEXANDER
CAMPBELL MARGARET
CAMLACHIE GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/03 0339

1949 OTTLEY JAMES ROBERT
DONNELLY ELIZABETH
PAISLEY /RENFREW 573/01 0597


That 1937 marriage for a James Alexander Ottley is too late to be your grandparents' marriage - unless it's a second marriage for James.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Sep 2016 21:37

So as you've posted on the "find Living Relatives" board, are you actually looking for living relatives?
Or are you looking for ancestors, and have posted on this board by mistake?
(Some people do!)

Are you looking for relatives in Canada, or in Scotland?

james

james Report 3 Sep 2016 21:07

James and mary ottley of Glasgow were the parents of my mother Elizabeth Ottley who was a war bride and moved to Canada in 1945.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 3 Sep 2016 17:39

(The marriage of that JAO and Phyllis was in 1951 - three different surnames for Phyllis.)


Welcome to the boards, James.

Will PM James, as he's a new poster, to tell him he has replies, and that we need more info, and how to give it.

malyon

malyon Report 2 Sep 2016 21:26

not finding the birth in 1910 for james is mary his sister

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 2 Sep 2016 21:01

A tree on Ancestry says that the James Alexander Otlley who was born 27 Dec. 1910 and died Feb. 1986 was married to Phyllis May Quilter.

malyon

malyon Report 2 Sep 2016 20:52

is this james



James Alexander Ottley

England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007

Name James Alexander Ottley
Event Type Death Registration
Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Year 1986
Registration District Westminster
County London
Event Place Westminster, London, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969) 27 Dec 1910
Volume 15
Page 2038

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 2 Sep 2016 19:47

Can you give us an idea of dates and places, James?

james

james Report 2 Sep 2016 18:52

looking for relatives of james alexander ottley and mary ottley