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Yeah I was on here many years ago but couldn’t get logged back in under old user name so I re registered and seen all the old messages In that case - WELCOME BACK! :D Find my past does have a death of an E. Brisbane in China in 1876 - no age, so quite a stretch. Wilma I have just read this does it ...

Yes, there was further blurb at the bottom of his 2001 certificate. It's funny my daughter, born a few years before has a totally different layout to her brothers' and my husband's is slightly different, in format and layout, from mine. It's interesting in itself how the paper copies have evolved. M...

Hi Nina, nice to 'see' you again :) All our 'Birth certificates' are extracts of the legal documents - which are kept in NHR Edinburgh. I have my son's to hand at the top it states: Extract of an Entry in a REGISTER of BIRTHS (Section 37(2) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages ( Scotl...

The same family feature in a new thread:
http://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewto ... 05#p149759

I hope you can help one another.

There is actually another thread here on Talking Scot about the family: https://www.talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14100 I haven't read it fully [PC is like treacle this morning] but it may fill in a few gaps. The original Poster carolann hasn't been active for a few years, but hopefully ...

[TS_welcome] Jeanette, That's a tricky one to try and resolve. You have lots of little clues, but nothing concrete enough to really help in a search. As you mentioned 2 surnames, I thought perhaps one may his mother's maiden name so searched all of Scotland for a birth of an Ale* Brown Mother's name...

It does get tricky the closer to present you get as , quite rightly , records are not in full public view.

James Smith and Christina Webster did marry on 31st Dec 1960 so registered as 1961. However they did only have one child Christina. There were two children from her first marriage, Jean and a boy whose name I haven't determined. He may be Joseph Waller MEIKLE b 1941 Johnstone & Elderslie ? There's ...

I searched SP with the information you gave - there are several Christin? Smith registered in Glasgow in 1975/76 but only 1 in Johnstone. Christina SMITH or MEIKLE or WEBSTER D 1975 aged 56 Johnstone mother's maiden name MULLAN The Christina Mary SMITH born in 1964 in Johnstone has a Mother's Maiden...

In what year did the first Christina Smith die? and what was her maiden name? knowing her maiden name may help narrow down both death and birth questions. Knowing the year she died could help with newspaper announcements or gravestone inscriptions. The Beatson is a cancer specialist hospital, so pat...