James Sneddon Mary Blair/Grant .....

Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:24 pm

Hello John

Long time no speak!

Why me?

I could never understand why I couldn't find her on SP. I tried so many variations.

I'm the one who had so much trouble with Cromdale Moray/Inverness that SP refunded me 130 credits!

If it wasn't for this board I would have achieved nothing on 3 lines of my family. so a great big =D> =D> =D> to you all

The best thing I ever did was join TS.

You, yourself, even sorted out my PC problems!

Jean

Post by **joette** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:15 am

Wow so exciting I have a couple of 1855 Deaths but they are all children.
My brick wall GGrandfather was born 1856 & his brother 1854!!!Well it's their Father who is the brick wall.
this gives fresh hope & it is so exciting when they live so long & you get back another generation.
My brick wall GGGrandfather's wife did a similiar thing with her niece which caused great confusion & much bashing of the card to sort out.
The 1841/1851 census gave me the clue I needed to mkae sense of it all.
So well done all

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:04 pm

Hi folks,
Jean's gg-granny Mary GRANT born abt 1844 got me thinking about the truth of parentage.

Just suppose Mary had never been told that her true parents were Alexander GRANT & Janet BROWN....
And that she grew up as Mary BLAIR believing her parents were William BLAIR & Isabella BROWN.

Mary on her 1866 MC would've naturally said her parents were William & Isabella.
And Mary's 1909 DC did have parents as William & Isabella (informant Mary's son).

But it was very fortunate that Mary had been told,
because what reason was there to ever doubt that William & Isabella were other than her parents?
An 1851 census says she is their daur.
We have a MC & a DC both having the same parent info.
Plus her marriage address in 1866 was where William & Isabella were living in 1861 & 1871.

So can we always really know who our ancestors are....?
I think most of the time the answer is yes.
Jack

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ps, well done Jean on finding Janet Anderson's 1855 DC - that was the icing on the cake for you.

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pps, but some tearing out of hair might've begun after seeing the 1913 MC of the informant son.
He now says his mother's m.s. is GRANT...!
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Post by **Jean Jeanie** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:26 pm

Just a brief update.

Lots more rellies found, thanks to Jack's diligence.

SP replied with a very nice e mail and refunded my "wasted" credits.

So Im very

Jean

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James Sneddon Mary Blair/Grant .....

True parents