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Hello Maggie, At first I couldn’t find him anywhere… it turns out the Ancestry transcription for the passenger list in 1844 was “Robert Libne” and in another database “Robert Sibrie” A user has added the comment that his name is really Robert Sibree. He was a surgeon on the passenger list and was bu...

"Bumping" this one again! As useful and hilarious now as it was back then

Regards,
Sarah

Happy Birthday, Talking Scot!!! \:D/ Talking Scot is 15 years old! [cheers] To celebrate, as we did 5 years ago on the 10th anniversary, we are “bumping” selected older posts - posts we enjoyed , posts with knotty puzzles, posts which made us laugh, posts which brought a tear to our eye and posts wh...

I "bumped" this one for our 10th anniversary and it's still one of my all-time favorites, for teamwork and perseverance. Read through from the beginning and enjoy!


Talking Scot is 15 years old!

Sarah

Happy 15th Birthday, Talking Scot!!!

I'm bumping this post that Alan "Currie" mentioned the other day, so others can read it over and appreciate!

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Sarah

I don't have any more credits at Scotlands People to check, but I'm voting for wee Isabella. If she was born soon after or before the marriage, that would explain the date shift.

Best wishes,
Sarah

Then, unless there is a birth you don't know about, my first theory doesn't hold up. What is the date of the 1897 marriage? Is the day and month of the reported 1896 marriage the same as the actual 1897 marriage record?

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Sarah

Hello ScotiaLass and a warm [TS_welcome] I have a few ideas, but perhaps others will have more. When was their first child born? Sometimes, if the child was born too soon after the marriage... then the couple would claim they were married earlier. Or, if they married at the end of the year and it wa...

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Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:09 am

That’s if I can remember what they are.

My problem also!! Should have made a list of things to check...

Sounds like they had a rollicking good time at the meeting of the Greenock Parochial Board :roll: He arrived, as he said in one of his letters, on the ship John R Skiddy from Liverpool, on 25 June 1845. He is on the first page of the manifest, as “Rev. Jno Scalan.” He says he is age 27 (can he be th...