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So does the marriage record have any parental details on it?
does her English death record not hold some information about parents? [I've forgotten what details they have]

Ah, the phonetic matching, didn't pick up all those variations of surnames.
Pity William wasn't born three weeks later in 1855!

I take it that this is the family in 1861 : Whitelay, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Occupation Birth place William Sim Head Married Male 43 1818 Linnen weaver Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland Ann McDougal Wife Married Female 32 1829...

Maybe aye maybe no! It's hard not to read too much into something like that , but without any sort of proof I'd not put too much store by it. Calling the daughter by her father's surname would be taken as on face value being an idea of his identity but extrapolating it out to the young son's name ma...

Firstly [TS_welcome] , That's quite a question you have posed - a vast number I suspect is the answer. For a more specific number you'd have to look to Australian Government sources, though how would such a thing be measured? Census records may hold the answer, if they responded with Scotland rather...

She may also have simply died too late to be included in on-line records yet. Where abouts in North America did she live? Did she have children? do you know their whereabouts. Sometimes you have to go back to move forward. Family Search gave nothing at first try, but you may have more success with m...

Hi, I'm not finding much if anything outside of Scotland: On Find My Past A birth in for Cecilia 1895 in Partick, Bryan Scanlan & Catherine Murray [different records have dad as Bryan, Barnard or Bernard] 1886 Birth for Bernard in Govan parents Bernard Scanlan & Catherine Murray - he died young 1901...

Hi again Ruth, I had initially answered on the other thread, but for completeness I'll post it here too: I had a search through the records, google etc and can't really find anything concrete for you. No deaths in Scotland match the dates you have for a couple of those names. I suspect it is a favou...

Hallo, I have no idea how to use this forum. I tried clicking on ‘cemeteries’ but it didn’t take me anywhere. So Russel, the Kilbarchan guy, I want to know the story behind he gravestone in Black Cart Water, beneath the bridge on Milliken Park Road, that reads Robert Smith 1929-2007 Violet Smith 19...

That's good,
just out of curiosity what was her usual address and who was the informant?.

Ancestry , I think, had BT phone books for that era, so you could perhaps use that to trace when they moved to that address, to narrow down their movements.