jane lafferty or boyd

[nelmit]

Hi Chrissie,

Doe's the name Simpson or Gillen mean anything to you? The two deaths that Annette found registered in 1993 in Greenock, I believe are one and the same, only one has the maiden name as Simpson and the other as Gillen. They have the same GROS number 640/00 0338.

Where are you located Chrissie? If you went to the Greenock Registry office they would let you have a look at both of them.

Regards,

Ina

Thanks for looking Ina .................doesn't look very likely that she's the one Chrisseyw is looking for.

[nelmit]

Ina - did it give a married name?

Regards,
Annette

[Ina]

Annette,

You are correct, I just found Jane Boyd's birth registered in both Greenock and Gourock in 1929.

The 1918 marriage to between James Boyd and Jane Lafferty is correct as it gives her maiden name as Burby and she is listed as a widow. Her parents names were James Lafferty and Elizabeth Galbraith.

Regards,

Ina

[chrisseyw]

thanks ina mr boyd had been dead for a few years before this baby was born and the cert says lafferty or boyd on my mothers cert she lied about the date of her marrige to mr boyd mr burby died in 1916 she then married mr boyd a few weeks before thier daughter deborah was born in 1918 the next baby she had was jane then she met my grandad dougald mcdougall and had my mam agnes in 1931 she also had two children with mr burby william who died of measeles in 1916 and elizabeth who was born in 1914 and died as a result of a fire in 1936 a month before my grannys death the names simpson and gillen mean nothing but we assume jane was brought up outside of the family as no one saeems to know anything about her legal adoption didnt start until 1930 so its possible she used the name of the family who brought her up i do appriciate all this help chfrissey

[chrisseyw]

sorry i meant to say im in newcastle ina chrissey

[carolineasb]

My Great Uncle's wife had 6 children with another man and the Birth Certificates have a notification like "married to............. and states that he is not the father of the child" but also named the other man. She also had another child and it said father unknown .

I have just recently found out that it appears that my Great Uncle went to Canada and "remarried" there although it appears that there was no divorce from the "first" wife (I maybe wrong and just haven't found it yet!). My understanding is that only divorces in Scotland would have been marked on the original marriage entry so I may never know.

[chrisseyw]

hi carline yes my mothers is like that it says wife of and when the married then in the fathers place my grandad signed it the thing is though she lied about when she married mr boyd on that cert so she must have had someone else before she met my grandad