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Thank you Ross,
I didn't know that, you learn something new everyday..... I thought I might have had some wealthy ancestors

Sandra

It certainly looks from the 1871 cen. that John Strathie snr is in Linlithgow, address West Pardovan.
His wife Janet was born West Kirk, Edinburghshire!

Had a look at the MC1874 between John Strathie and Jane Sharp, John was a railway guardsman, but the ironic thing is his father was John Strathie and was a Farm ????, Ploughman in brackets.
I'm not very good at deciphering certificates

Thank you,
I did see that, but I think I've come to the conclusion, that I probably wouldn't really know if I had the correct one anyway.

Thats what I found, not many Strathie's especially Johns.
Margaret was a Domestic servant, she already had a illegitimate son John b1870, then Elizabeth b1873, could it be she worked for John Srathie?

Hi all, I'm trying to find out about a John Strathie who was named as the father of Eliz. Clark b1873, Polmont, she was the illegitimate child of Margaret Clark. All I have on the RCE is his name, John Strathie a ploughman from Overtown in the parish of Polmont, but can't seem to find him anywhere. ...

Hi Andrew, They all paid £2.00 which seemed a lot for then. I tried to upload the image, but no joy, keep getting error messages like - Critical error Unable to create thumbnail or reduced size image and Error -A valid form token could not be found. Think its and age thing, the old grey matter not w...

I have just downloaded an OPR 1776 MC, could someone explain it to me :? for a start at the top it says collections 1777 with amounts next to each couple, then half way down it has Proclamations with amount again next to each couple, also next to some of them its says - irregular! Hope i'm explainin...

Thanks Alan,
I know what you mean about the handwriting present day, I'm from the time when we had to practice our handwriting at school, and were marked on it.
I find quite a lot on Familysearch.org, but seem to struggle with SP, do wish SP had a subscription option.

Sandra

Oh how I wish searching for OPR's was a little easier, even if you are lucky enough to find them, they are unreadable,
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