Hello I'm new to Ancestry and I am having difficulty trying to find my grandfather branches!
Samuel Strachan was born 15/11/1879 in East Rainton, Durham along with his siblings James 1876 & Margaret 1882. The 1901 census has him living with his parents and the 1911 one he is married to Elizabeth Dinning but other than these I cannot find anything else for him, not even his birth.
Samuel's marriage certificate names his parents as Thomas & Margaret ? I cannot find Margaret's maiden name. I believe his parents originated from Scotland and married there. I suspect they had other children before Samuel as Margaret was 33yrs old when Samuel was born. I have trawled the Scotland Peoples web site and have found a Thomas Strachan ( b:1846) & Margaret Cranston (b:1846)marrying in 1863 they have 2 sons and a daughter but I don't know if this one is the right as there were other Thomas & Margaret marriages.
Can anyone help me climb my branches!
Samuel Strachan was born 15/11/1879 in East Rainton, Durham along with his siblings James 1876 & Margaret 1882. The 1901 census has him living with his parents and the 1911 one he is married to Elizabeth Dinning but other than these I cannot find anything else for him, not even his birth.
Samuel's marriage certificate names his parents as Thomas & Margaret ? I cannot find Margaret's maiden name. I believe his parents originated from Scotland and married there. I suspect they had other children before Samuel as Margaret was 33yrs old when Samuel was born. I have trawled the Scotland Peoples web site and have found a Thomas Strachan ( b:1846) & Margaret Cranston (b:1846)marrying in 1863 they have 2 sons and a daughter but I don't know if this one is the right as there were other Thomas & Margaret marriages.
Can anyone help me climb my branches!
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