Given the other matches, - age, occupation, then this GRAY informant match, for me, just tips me towards believing that this could well be his death record.bidefordbelle wrote:Hi Montrose Budie and Nelmit,
I have all the relevant family parents and siblings etc; and I am sure the witness of Jeannie's death certificate is John Strachan William's father. I checked out the Stirling record and it could be a possibility given his army connections with Stirling and Bannockburn.
Also when Jeannie died my mother was taken care of by a Mrs Gray in Chappell Street Rutherglen known as Granny Gray by my eldest brother and sister my mother was only 12 when her mother died and her brother was 15. So the J Gray on William's certificate could be a Gray family member.
All that you have to do now is to prove that all the other possible matches are not your ancestor on the basis of the names of the parents !!
Understood.bidefordbelle wrote:As for Barkip typing error on my side...I have been to Dalry and what was left of the Den, found the church they married in too. But had no way of knowing at the time where either of them had died.
Miners were surprisingly mobile !
As a current top Scottish philosopher is wont to say, "Maybes aye, maybes naw" !!bidefordbelle wrote:The only question mark over the record for William means that he died a year after I was born and by that time my parents had made the move to North Devon in 1953, if that was the case my older siblings would have been old enough to remember the event as many of them were married then and some still living in Kilmarnock area, but they don't remember any of it, which would seem very strange..
mb