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That is a very good place look for such a thing. However they aren't indexed for easy searching, and it can be a slow process. For those areas I think you'd have to look at the Glasgow City Presbytery records and the Kirk session for St John's, St Mungo's , Barony, and Park. :https://www.scotlandspe...

Out of curiosity I searched the OPR births on SP. I entered * as the surname and Foundling as the parents name There were a few returns: 1 where the Father's surname was Foundling 1 whose surname was the registration district and Foundling Child as parentage most of the rest bear the adoptee's surna...

Hi, thanks for your response. 1. Elizabeth Mooney married Thomas Grieve in Bellshill, Lanarkshire in 1897. 2 I have found both Elizabeth and John in the 1891 census only recently actually. They were not living together. Elizabeth was living as a servant in Bellshill, Lanark. John was living with hi...

Hi Andy, I've been mulling this one over, and sadly not coming up with any answers - only further questions. 1. Who did she marry in 1897? and where 2. Have you found her and/or John from the orphanage in the 1891 census? 3. What significance is the year 1895 that you mention ? " discovered her pare...

I'm afraid I'm not having any joy either. George Sutherland MacKay is not an uncommon name - some famous some infamous! but none of the notable match in age. As he would have been of military call-up age, in 1939 he could be almost anywhere! FindMypast does have 1 serviceman of the correct age: Firs...

A point to bear in mind with Death records - the information is only as good as the person giving it, as the subject can no longer provide it. A child often may not know a grandmother's maiden name for instance. Ages too can be a out as they weren't considered so important back then. Sometimes, you ...

[TS_welcome] You have given us a very clear post of the information that you have gleaned already. The time period you are looking at gets a bit fuzzy betimes, as it spans the change between Old Parish Records [OPR] and Statutory Records and the early Census records. Do you have the death of Ann Rob...

[TS_welcome] You have given us a very clear post of the information that you have gleaned already. The time period you are looking at gets a bit fuzzy betimes, as it spans the change between Old Parish Records [OPR] and Statutory Records and the early Census records. Do you have the death of Ann Rob...

Scotland's people have just announced a new set of records on-line. Lightkeeper registers (Lighthouses) Search the registers of lightkeepers employed by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses (Northern Lighthouse Board) between 1837 and 1921. The lightkeepers registers have two parts. The first p...

Now that is very interesting.
Something else to bear in mind if the 'Head' of a household isn't with the family, especially if he was ex-military.