Trying to trace Scottish family - McCann

SacredG · Post by **SacredG** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:49 pm

Hi All

Im currently doing my family tree and having completed my UK side upto 1850's ive decided to start on my Grand Father, all i know he was called Edward McCann and born in Lanarkshire area 01/12/09.

Ive noticed on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk that the births only go upto 1901. Quite frustrating! He moved to UK and married my Gran in 1933, I have his marraige registration and death reg from uk records.

So ive hit a brick wall already! How do i go about tracing his exact birth place and further rellies?

Thank you

Regards

Andrea

Rockford · Post by **Rockford** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:13 pm

SacredG wrote:all i know he was called Edward McCann and born in Lanarkshire area 01/12/09.

Ive noticed on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk that the births only go upto 1901. Quite frustrating! He moved to UK and married my Gran in 1933, I have his marraige registration and death reg from uk records.

Hi Andrea,

Welcome to Talking Scot

! I've been a member for only a few weeks and already I've received a lot of help - don't worry about brick walls, I'm sure there are people here who can help you over them!

You said that you have your grandad's death registration from the UK, but you don't say if this is Scottish or not. This might give you his parents names [and maybe occupations]. This means that you could search on ScotlandsPeople for people with those names marrying each other in the County of Lanark (Marriages go up to 1930) - you could narrow down the search to say, 1880 to 1910 as a starting point.

Assuming your grandparents married in Scotland, you could take your gran's parent's names from the marriage record you have and search for the marriage of her parents, too. This would give you an indication of where they were married and when. This then allows you to look for Census records and death certificates, which would get you back another generation.

If your grandparents didn't marry in Scotland, I'm not sure what the best way of tracking them down would be. Over to everyone else..............

best wishes

Brian

SacredG · Post by **SacredG** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:26 pm

I have only got his death registration, he died in UK in 1976 where he had lived from 1933.

He also married in Leicester 1933, again i only have a registration of this.

So basically i need to send of for the actual certificate (marriage or death) which will tell me about his address in scotland and then lead me to more rellies?

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:05 pm

Hi SacredG

Since you have an exact date of birth in Scotland for him you can contact GROS and order an extract... http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/famrec/h ... flet2.html ....(or alternatively..not sure just where you live....visit New Register House in Edinburgh or Park Circus in Glasgow and view the current records for yourself that would contain this birth.....or....another choice...hope for some kind person to look for you or....final choice? Pay a professional to obtain the info and forward it to you\!!) This Scottish birth record would be most valuable to you as it will contain both parents names and where they were married and occupations. An English marriage certificate is only going to give you his father's name and occupation.

Best wishes
Jean

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:15 pm

Oh almost forgot........the online ScotlandsPeople birth indexes now go to 1906. Each year one more year is added to the indexes and images that are accessible online to keep in line with the closure limitations. (100 years for births)

Best wishes
Jean

karenc · Post by **karenc** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:29 pm

Hi Andrea

i am going in to NRH on friday so if i get a chance i will look up his birth record for you.

do you know his parents names from any of the certificates you already have?

karen

SacredG · Post by **SacredG** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:41 pm

Hi Karen

That would be very kind and i would appreciate that very much

I do not know his parents names

All i know is:-

Edward McCann Born 01/12/09, whcih i got from his death record, registered in Nottingham UK. I heard he was from Lanarkshire. He was definatly Scottish.

SacredG · Post by **SacredG** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:43 pm

just to keep you in the loop, ive taken up doing my family tree whilst on maternity leave, ive three weeks to go and have been experiencing contractions (wether False or True not sure as yet) so if im delaying in replying this is why.

Ill will keep you posted!

xx

karenc · Post by **karenc** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:24 am

Ok andrea i will try and check for you

hope you keep well

karen

Post by **joette** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:43 am

Braxton-Hicks or not Braxton-Hicks-do we need to boil a kettle???

The first online labour on TS!

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