Researching Pipe Major Stark

[SarahND]

Hi Annette,
Sounds like you are getting some Armenian names there! I also did a bit of a search with that name to no practical use. There must be a birth registration if she was indeed born in Edinburgh around the time stated. It would help to know her mother's name.

There is a male child with the surname Killigan born in Edinburgh in 1883.


Sarah

[SarahND]

And there is a child named Massie born in 1884 in St Andrew (Edinburgh) but with no permutation of any of the possible surnames discussed. Might be worthwhile to have a look at that one.

[nelmit]

And there is a child named Massie born in 1884 in St Andrew (Edinburgh) but with no permutation of any of the possible surnames discussed. Might be worthwhile to have a look at that one.

Definitely not her - it's a boy!

[jabe]

Hi Annette

Thanks for trying to solve this problem that I seem to have.

Regards

Jabe

[jabe]

Hi All.

Not use to this site. I have suddenly realised that there is a second page. Thanks to you all for trying.



Jabe

[aboode]

Hello Jabe,

A surname search at ScotlandsPeople for Macblairgowrie gives a zero result. A search for the surname at FreeBMD for England and Wales gives only one result and that’s the 1906 marriage.

The name is possibly a fabrication, or else it has been seriously misheard, twice. It doesn’t show up anywhere, not even on familysearch.

The only newspaper reference I could find for a Pipe Major Stark, in that time-frame, was in the Glasgow Herald, Monday, August 11, 1890, being a report on the Tillietudlem National Games.

“Bagpipe competition—1st, Roderick M’Donald, Barra; 2d, Pipe-Major Hall, 91st Highlanders; 3rd, Pipe-Major Stark, Hamilton.”

You can see it on this Google copy, towards the bottom of 2nd last column on page 8. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oq ... %2C3667189

In 1930, according to the Scotsman, there were several performances in Edinburgh by the 7/9th Royal Scots Pipe Band, under Pipe-Major W. Stark. From 1931 the Pipe-Major for the same band appears to have been an Allan G. Stark.

Jabe,
I am compiling a list of Pipe Majors of military Pipes & Drums worldwide and have at the moment the following P/Ms with the surname STARK on my list:
- Stark (no first/middle names known) : during 1915 Highland Light Infantry, Depot
- Stark, Allan Graham b.1899 d.1963 : during WW2 Royal Scots, 7/9th Bn
- Stark, William : 1882-1886 Black Watch, 2nd Battalion and from 1886 Cameronians 3rd Bn
If there was a W. Stark P/M of the Royal Scots 7/9th Bn around 1930 that would probably be a different person from William above.
Any further information welcome !
Aad
aad@blueyonder.co.uk