Help Please.....

Wee Ina · Post by **Wee Ina** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 3:33 pm

I have just uploaded a certificate to the site as i need advice on a name and i dont know where it went.

It went into the TalkingScot backshop, until approval

http://talkingscot.com/gallery/displayi ... p?pos=-403

The Certificate was for the Marriage of William Punton McKay to C. McIver Livingston 79, Wallace Street South Glasgow.

If anyone can see the certificate anywhere the bit i cannot read properly is williams parents.

Alexander Punton McKay

Contractors ?????????

(deceased)

Ina McKay - correct me if im wrong please

???????????? (deceased)

I have been looking at these all morning and those two words i just cant get.

Im thinking of changing my user name to Mrs Stupid.

Thanking you in advance

Wee Ina

Gallery URL added - AndrewP

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:03 pm

Hi Wee Ina,

I would go for:

William Preston McKay, Contractor's carter
and
Ina McKay, m.s. Donnell (deceased)

No need to change your name. Certificate handwriting takes a bit of getting used to. We've deciphered many a scawl here.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

Wee Ina · Post by **Wee Ina** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:52 pm

Thank you so very much - Im going to go searching in a min.

Now can i pick your brain on this Ina McKay bit please.

I call myself Ina as does my mum and my grt granny did also but on all the official docs we use/used our full name Thomasina (even although my grt grannys christian name was actually Jane-found that out after she was dead for 30 yrs!)

Now would it have been common practice to just registar your kids using the name you were called and not your actual christian name. Im only asking as some of the bits and bobs ive read on hear have made me rethink the way i have been searching which has been of great help.

Many thanks

Wee Ina

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:59 pm

Hi Ina,

The "official" name to use would be Thomasina, but more often than not, the "known" name Ina would be used. The person registering the death may have always known the deceased as Ina, so that is how it would be registered.

Keep a very open mind for names when searching, particularly for deaths. Ages on death certificates can vary away from the truth too.

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

Wee Ina · Post by **Wee Ina** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:06 pm

Thanks very much once again Andrew.

Right im off to SP to do some more searching even althought the CC is screaming at me to behave hahahahaha

No doubt i shall be back soon - even if only for a good read.

Take care

Wee Ina

Post by **paddyscar** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:17 pm

Wee Ina wrote: ...

...I call myself Ina as does my mum and my grt granny did also but on all the official docs we use/used our full name Thomasina (even although my grt grannys christian name was actually Jane-found that out after she was dead for 30 yrs!)

Now would it have been common practice to just registar your kids using the name you were called and not your actual christian name. Im only asking as some of the bits and bobs ive read on hear have made me rethink the way i have been searching which has been of great help.

Many thanks

Wee Ina

It's pretty common to see variations of names used on all registry forms.

It would depend on the person registering the birth, and what they knew of the mother. If a neighbour registered your grt granny's child, she may well have listed the mother's name as "Ina" because that is the only name she knew her by.

Keep in mind too, that many people could neither read nor write so would be assuming that their actual christian name was the one they were being called ie: Ina instead of Jane, Molly instead of Mary, Peg instead of Margaret, Kirstie instead of Christine.

Also, when people who were illiterate registered births and deaths, they were at the mercy of the registrar to get it right, as they would not have been able to spot any errors.

Frances