Decipher -informant and finding Geo

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:46 pm

Getting somewhere Sandra,

Try an 1889 Lanark marriage of an Elizabeth Marshall to an OROURKE. (sounds just like arock)

Alan

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:52 pm

Hey, good thinking there Alan - that looks like a possibility.

Best wishes
Lesley

thomsos · Post by **thomsos** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:55 pm

Currie wrote:Getting somewhere Sandra,

Try an 1889 Lanark marriage of an Elizabeth Marshall to an OROURKE. (sounds just like arock)

Alan

=D> well done Alan, we now know the informant was poor Elizabeth who could not spell her name, any suggestion for finding her father George.

Sandra

George was dec when Eliz. got married, so now I know he must have died between 1881 and 1889

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:08 pm

Actually I cheated.
Used the old 'keep adding letters' trick.

Alan

Post by **AndrewP** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:18 pm

thomsos wrote:George was dec when Eliz. got married, so now I know he must have died between 1881 and 1889

Hi Sandra,

There are 9 George Marshall deaths in Glasgow from 1881 to 1889. Only three of these are in the right age group. The births, marriages and deaths you have are all from north of the river, so the one in Hutchesontown should be the last one to go for.

That leaves you a choice of two - age 58 in 1884 in Calton or age 47 in 1885 in Camlachie. Does one of these fit the info you have from the 1881 census?

All the best,

AndrewP

thomsos · Post by **thomsos** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:32 pm

$\:D/$ Yip, you have all done it again, don't know what I would do without you all, I made the mitstake of looking in Lanark and the Calton one did not show, I'll eventually figure out how this detective game works

so

all
and thank you
Sandra