Mystery - where is birth record

[crayspond]

Hi to All,

I am scanning over my Beveridge family in Fife - still on the elusive trail to go back further by trying the naming pattern route. I have just noticed that in one of the generations i can't find a birth record for James Beveridge - son of George Beveridge and Margaret Drummond. He would probably be the first son - they were married 5/3/1826 in Dunfermline. James appears on the 1841 census in New Row Dunfermline age 10 working as a LW - Linen weaver or Loom Worker. There is also a Margaret on the census age 8 - again i can't find her birth details. Other children i have found are :Elspeth (1832) George (1835) John (1837) David (1839) Thomas (1841).
I have trawled the LDS site and also SP but have not found anything. Can anyone suggest anything else?
George senior's mother was Ann father John. Margaret senior's father was William mother Elizabeth yet she has not used any of these names in the naming pattern!

Regards
Ailsa

[Currie]

Hello Ailsa,

In the Scottish Parochial Register survey of the 1840s Dunfermline Parish got full marks for record keeping, so I guess that the sloppy record keeping and missing records thing is less likely to be the reason they’re not to be found .http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gtg ... AJ&pg=PA69

You can get IGI batch numbers from the Hugh Wallis site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... #PageTitle
These appear to be the batch numbers for baptisms in Dunfermline that broadly cover the period in question. C119504 = 1825-1834, C119505 = 1834-1849, C119506 = 1820-1854, C119508 = 1833-1854.

If you go to the IGI search page and input a batch number and British Isles region, you can leave everything else blank and get a full list of all baptisms in the batch, or just input the batch number and the father’s first name, or whatever you like. It’s pretty flexible and you can use all sorts of combinations. Sometimes that helps to find people where the name has been messed up or whatever.

If you haven’t already tried that with each of the batch numbers, give it a go, and maybe it will help. Check to see that they are male/female batches but these appear to be ok.

Lots of luck,
Alan

[crayspond]

Thanks Alan for the quick reply. I have looked at the Hugh Wallis site - it is time consuming but usually gives results - not this time though
I just done a search on all Records and all Parishes but still nothing - even using B*******e in case the spelling was way out - but only came up with a James Bryce.
My next thought is maybe they married and then moved to England, Ireland or Wales or further, while there had James and Margaret and then returned back to Dunfermline. I may never know as the census only began in 1841. The annoying thing is James and Margaret are definitely there on the 1841 census in Glasgow. There may have been more children as they married in 1826 and going by the age of James (10) in 1841 he would have been born c 1831 which leaves a gap of 5 years from when they married until he was born.
Time maybe to move on to the next generation.......

Regards
Ailsa