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Re: Edmund Overend (Campbell Overend) married to Ann Hodge. Does anyone know of her (Hodge) lineage? I know for a fact Edmund had a soft spoken English accent and she might have the Irish brogue accents . They lived on 90 Cambridge st , Glasgow Scotland. [rant] Sonia Going from census records here ...

P.S. When he died in 1907, he was living at 228 Main Street, Winthrop. The informant (listed as “Unknown”) gave his birthplace as Renfrew, Scotland and his parents names also “Unknown.” How do you get an unknown informant to fill out the details??? :lol: :lol: :lol: Great to get confirmation Sarah.

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Annette

Happy New Year everybody. [cheers] Great stories Alan. Ages are a wee bit out but I am pretty sure this is Alexander and Margaret from Greenock with their new family in 1880. Wee Jessie's birth date of June 1870 fits well with their disappearance. Alexander Douglas Self M 48 Scotland Margaret A Doug...

Merry Christmas everybody. Hope Santa was good to you all.

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Annette

I think Agnes could be Robert's 2nd wife too. There is such a gap in age between the children in 1841. There is a death registered in Paisley of a Robert Brattan age 68 in 1859. I am not sure if you looked at the entry if you would see if he had been married twice though. I don't think they listed s...

Hi Derek,

Hopefully Heather will get in touch. Meanwhile here is an old post of hers that makes interesting reading in case you haven't seen it.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33&hilit=haldane+heather

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Annette

Hello Nick,

The first thing I was going to suggest was a look at her death entry but I don't see anything obvious in Scotland.

Do you know where she died?

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Annette

After looking at many badges and pins I'm thinking it may have belonged to a motorcycle driver.

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Annette

When searching for one of my friend's Lithuanian family it proved really quite difficult as each certificate had a totally different spelling of their names as obviously it was just written by the Registrar how it sounded to them :( That was my thought. Do you know you can search with only first na...