Four years ago we were chatting to a friend and he wanted to know where his middle name came from.
We traced his tree back for him but came to a dead end when we found his g-grandfather was born in Ceylon.....the middle name was still a middle name and that's where we left it!
Today we got an email from someone descended from a sibling of the man born in Ceylon. They had found us as a google search had turned up a Q my OH had asked on a forum in 2003 about the Ceylon connection. Their ancestor had the sense to marry in Scotland not England like our chap, so the additional marriage info they gave us has enabled us to go back another three or four generations, including discovering the origin of the "middle name"!!
BUT......I have a marriage record from Scotlands People (first time I have used it today!!) ....I can read the whole page easily except one word!! Can you make out the occupation of James Orchiston??
Here's the whole marriage entry (1807):
and here's the occupation bit:
Pity our friend isn't answering his phone :(
We traced his tree back for him but came to a dead end when we found his g-grandfather was born in Ceylon.....the middle name was still a middle name and that's where we left it!
Today we got an email from someone descended from a sibling of the man born in Ceylon. They had found us as a google search had turned up a Q my OH had asked on a forum in 2003 about the Ceylon connection. Their ancestor had the sense to marry in Scotland not England like our chap, so the additional marriage info they gave us has enabled us to go back another three or four generations, including discovering the origin of the "middle name"!!
BUT......I have a marriage record from Scotlands People (first time I have used it today!!) ....I can read the whole page easily except one word!! Can you make out the occupation of James Orchiston??
Here's the whole marriage entry (1807):
and here's the occupation bit:
Pity our friend isn't answering his phone :(
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