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Hi NELV, The death certificate for Alexander Robertson can be found on ScotlandsPeople. If you search the deaths for Alexander Robertson in Fife between 1881 and 1891, age 50 to 120, you get 11 results. One is in Markinch and the details on it match with some of the information that you have given. ...

They have selected items in archives : https://www.scotsman.com/archive [though I can't actually see any of them] ](*,) I picked on one sample date in 2004. There were nine headlines there to click on. Five led to articles; the remaining four ended at a 'page not found' error page. All the best, An...

On this 1950s OS map, 15 St Andrew's Drive looks like a fairly large detached house.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/130372840
>> close to the right-hand edge
>> not far above the centre line

All the best,

AndrewP

The online IGI shows both William and David: >> William Sim, Christening, 09-Dec-1854, Cargill, Perthshire >> David Alexander McDougall Sime, birth, 04-Jan-1857, Cargill, Perthshire And the parents' marriage: >> William Syme & Anne McDougal, 20-Nov-1853, Cargill, Perthshire These all also show up on...

One other angle for you - a former neighbour of mine had the confirmation name Cecelia, but was always called Sheila.

Food for thought,

AndrewP

WilmaM wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 25, 2023 5:14 pm

Ancestry , I think, had BT phone books for that era, so you could perhaps use that to trace when they moved to that address, to narrow down their movements.

Ancestry's phone books go up to 1984.

All the best,

AndrewP

My birth certificate that I have at home is an extract. As I was born a [very] little earlier than the 1965 Act that Wilma referred to, the heading says " EXTRACT ENTRY OF BIRTH: 17 & 18 Victoria Cap. 80, § 37 ". So that refers back to The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act ...

Hi WIlma, I think this is the man you have sight of in 1866. 1841 census: BRISBANE, EBENESOR; M, 2; 571/ 1/ 13; MEARNS, RENFREW 1851 census: BRISBANE, EBEN; M, 10; 644/1 245/ 28; GLASGOW, LANARK 1861 census: BRISLANE, EBENEZER; M, 27; 496/ 10/ 36; DUMBARTON, DUNBARTON 1871 census ?? 1881 census: BRI...

Hi Carol, The only Ebenezer Brisbane deaths on ScotlandsPeople don't match the birth year of 1788. >> 1868, age 0, Neilston, mother's maiden surname Caldwell >> 1892, age 52, Greenock East, mother's maiden surname Rankin On widening the search out to surname [blank] and first name Eb* with a birth y...

FindMyPast's transcription of the same family group: Frederick . .. Asken . . Head . . Married . . . Male . . . . 46 . . 1845 . . Bricklayer labourer . . Dumfries, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Bridget . . . . Asken . . Wife . . Married . . . Female . . 46 . . 1845 . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . Dumfri...