I posted a while ago re one of my Ancestors - Andrew Affleck, bn c1760, and his wife Ann.
I have looked through all the parish registers for Andrew and Ann in Durham and Northumberland as they were living here in the 1780s - not IGI but parish registers on microfiche, and there does not seem to be a marriage in Durham nor Northumberland, and I have also checked IGI (family search) for anywhere else in the UK, no Andrew nor Ann are showing a marriage so I really do think that they might have travelled from Scotland to Durham soon after they married.
Andrew and Ann had four children -
Andrew bap 1786, Lamesley, Chester le Street, Durham - I have traced him through censuses and marriage, and his death down the Coal Pits in Durham - explosion.
James bap Jan 25 Jan 1788, Fatfield, Nr Biddick, Durham son of Andrew Auflick, Pitman and Ann his wife, residence Fatfield
He died Penshaw, Durham 1795, and was buried 12 Jul 1795, Penshaw. Burial records from Parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts.
John who was baptised 4 Apr 1790 son of Andrew Auflick, Pitman and Ann his wife, Fatfield, Durham. Burial records from parish registers 24 Feb 1798, son of Andrew and Ann D???, place Penshaw, Durham native of Lambton. From this record I now have a name of his wife, and at first from looking at the parish registers that it was Dawes, but this name is not really heard of in Durham, coming from the South of England - I then looked at Bishop's Transcripts and it looks on there more like Duers, Duwers?
William Affleck was baptised 1793, and I have traced him also through his marriage and all the censuses.
From my searches in Scotland, there were two baps of an Andrew Affleck around that time, Andrew bap 22.7.1760, father John and mother Helen Young, Hownam, Roxburgh (from the Fleckie gypsies), and an Andrew Affleck bn 7.1.1762 s.o. Andrew Affleck a Castle Soldier, in New Gray Friars parish and Isobel Neilson. Searches show that in Scotlands People a marriage of an Andrew Affleck, Cooper in Leith, to an Ann Jameson, resident in Leigh, daughter of Alexander Jameson in 1783. I initially thought that this was my man, only to find that my Andrew had a son earlier than this in Durham!! Later baps on IGI would make my Andrew too young to have married.
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be so grateful. I do have a daughter living in Edinburgh (Morningside), so could easily stay up there and go to the new Records Office in Prince's Street, but wondered if I am missing something, that there are more records, as I am sure there are more than the above Andrew Afflecks bap in Scotland around the 1760 period.
Any help appreciated, many thanks, Jean
