Where do I go from here

[wallace]

Banging my head off a brick wall trying to trace back my maternal grandfather's line of MCCRORIE / MCCRORY.

Can only find reference to the family in the 1901 census, where father David McCrorie is deceased and his widow Isabella and children Alice, Thomas, Lizzie and Isabella are listed living in Barrhead.

I know David and Isabella were married in Ireland and that David's father was Hugh McCrory and I think his mother was Ann mcLaren but can find no records for any of the above children or David or Hugh's marriage

Any ideas of where to go from here?

[nelmit]

Banging my head off a brick wall trying to trace back my maternal grandfather's line of MCCRORIE / MCCRORY.

Can only find reference to the family in the 1901 census, where father David McCrorie is deceased and his widow Isabella and children Alice, Thomas, Lizzie and Isabella are listed living in Barrhead.

I know David and Isabella were married in Ireland and that David's father was Hugh McCrory and I think his mother was Ann mcLaren but can find no records for any of the above children or David or Hugh's marriage

Any ideas of where to go from here?

Hello Wallace,

I think you are going to have to be a bit more inventive with the surname.

David is still alive in 1891 - the family are indexed as McRorie.

Happy hunting,
Annette

[ninatoo]

It looks as though they are there in the 1881 and 1891 census in Eastwood Renfrewshire. I used wildcards to allow for different spelling....Mc*ror*. In the 1891 I searched for David with the other person being Alice....bingo. And if any of the children were born in Scotland, then their birth registration ought to have a place of marriage listed for the parents.

All the best.

Nina

[Anne H]

Hi Wallace,

Welcome to TalkingScot

Those Irish ancestors have all of us pulling our hair out.

Have you checked out the 1891 census on SP yet? The following is found on Ancestry...could be your David and Ann's family.

Name: Bella McCrory
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863
Relationship: Daur (Daughter)
Father's Name: David
Mother's Name: Ann
Gender: Female
Where born: Ireland
Registration Number: 644/3
Registration district: Dennistoun
Civil Parish: Glasgow St Thomas
County: Lanarkshire
Address: 10 Slatefield St
Occupation: Carpet Weaver
ED: 18
Household schedule number: 41
Line: 17
Roll: CSSCT1891_249
Household Members: Name Age
David Conner 5
Neil Conner 3
Ann McCrory 60
Annie McCrory 19
Bella McCrory 28
Christina McCrory 21
David McCrory 58
Mary McCrory 30


Regards,
Anne H

[nelmit]

Here is David in 1881 -

Dwelling: 8 Pleasance Street
Census Place: Eastwood, Renfrew, Scotland
Source: FHL Film 0203568 GRO Ref Volume 562 EnumDist 4 Page 15
Marr Age Sex Birthplace
David MC RORIE M 24 M Ireland
Rel: Head
Occ: Quarry Labourer
Isabella MC RORIE M 26 F Ireland
Rel: Wife
Occ: Farm Woaker
Ann MC RORIE U 6 F Eastwood, Renfrew, Scotland
Rel: Daur
Occ: Scholar

Regards,
Annette

[ninatoo]

Oops Ann, I think you got the wife's name wrong!

[nelmit]

Yes Nina - the family are living at Eastwood in 1891.

Alice's birth is also indexed as McRorie. Hopefully that entry should give a marriage date.

[AndrewP]

The eldest daughter is indexed on the IGI.

ANN MCCRORIE
Birth: 15 NOV 1874 Eastwood, Renfrewshire
Parents:
Father: DAVID MCCRORIE
Mother: ISABELLA LAFFERTY

All the best,

AndrewP

[Anne H]

Hi Nina,

Oops Ann, I think you got the wife's name wrong!

Oops, you're right! Ann was David's mother's name, wasn't

Regards,
Anne H

[wallace]

Ooh you are all wonderful, had tried McCrorie/McGrory and McCrory never thought of McRorie.

I think I found that David and Isabella nee lafferty/laverty were married in "strabane" in N. Ireland.

This will help so much I just could n't seem to find anymore out and it was getting so frustrating.

thank you thank you .........so much.