Hi all,
I've been managing to piece together two of my mother's family trees over the past few months, and thanks in no small part to the fantastic effort demonstrated by a few people from this forum among others.
However, I have hit a possible brick wall and simply don't know how to proceed, as I've so far been unable to track down any relatives who may be able to help me with names and dates, and I can't find any information on publicly upload family trees.
I am attempting to trace the descendants of one of my great-grandmother's brothers, John Robertson Hendry. I have birth, marriage and death certificates for John from ScotlandsPeople, and I have a likely date of death for his widow, who I do not believe re-married. There's also a probate entry for John on Ancestry (the Scottish will & probate records went up only a week or two ago) which gives his address and the name of his widow.
However, I am not completely sure what his children were called and so, given that they will have been born in Scotland, I am having great difficulty in moving forward. Yes, SP does have its advantages in the form of 5 credit certificates, but in my experience attempting to trace births without knowing the exact details is essentially impossible. :(
On my notes (written some twenty years ago) I have John's children as being: 'Sam Hendry, Anna Hendry in Sheffield.' Just as written, so I don't know if these are both his children or whether Sam married Anna. I can't even be sure the names are correct, though I'll assume they are. Presumably one or both of them moved to Sheffield at some point as they won't have been born in Sheffield, and yet I can't find a record of an Anna Hendry being born in Scotland.
John was born in 1885 and died in 1921; he married in 1915 and so logically any children will have been born between 1915 and 1921. There are two or three Samuel Hendrys born in Glasgow between those dates, but there are no certificates available to view and I don't really want to spend £12 a pop to find out.
What do you all think? Ideally I don't want to have to wait until the 1921 census. :D
I've been managing to piece together two of my mother's family trees over the past few months, and thanks in no small part to the fantastic effort demonstrated by a few people from this forum among others.
However, I have hit a possible brick wall and simply don't know how to proceed, as I've so far been unable to track down any relatives who may be able to help me with names and dates, and I can't find any information on publicly upload family trees.
I am attempting to trace the descendants of one of my great-grandmother's brothers, John Robertson Hendry. I have birth, marriage and death certificates for John from ScotlandsPeople, and I have a likely date of death for his widow, who I do not believe re-married. There's also a probate entry for John on Ancestry (the Scottish will & probate records went up only a week or two ago) which gives his address and the name of his widow.
However, I am not completely sure what his children were called and so, given that they will have been born in Scotland, I am having great difficulty in moving forward. Yes, SP does have its advantages in the form of 5 credit certificates, but in my experience attempting to trace births without knowing the exact details is essentially impossible. :(
On my notes (written some twenty years ago) I have John's children as being: 'Sam Hendry, Anna Hendry in Sheffield.' Just as written, so I don't know if these are both his children or whether Sam married Anna. I can't even be sure the names are correct, though I'll assume they are. Presumably one or both of them moved to Sheffield at some point as they won't have been born in Sheffield, and yet I can't find a record of an Anna Hendry being born in Scotland.
John was born in 1885 and died in 1921; he married in 1915 and so logically any children will have been born between 1915 and 1921. There are two or three Samuel Hendrys born in Glasgow between those dates, but there are no certificates available to view and I don't really want to spend £12 a pop to find out.
What do you all think? Ideally I don't want to have to wait until the 1921 census. :D
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