I'm trying to work back from Thomas Sturrock (1829 to 1918).
From 1861 to 1901 he's in the western suburbs of Glasgow with his wife Euphemia Carse. I've found the births of their 12 children on the IGI. I know this is the correct family because the name Carse came down the family unto my M-i-L.
They married on 3 June 1853 in Dumbarton Parish Church after banns in both Dumbarton (IGI Batch M114967) and their home town of Liff & Benvie, Dundee (IGI Batch M113014 and OPR on ScotlandsPeople).
In 1851 he's with his family at 199 Hawkhill, Liff & Benvie aged 20 (mistranscribed on Ancestry as Stunock but OK on the SP image). His mother Cornelia (see below) is a widow by 1851.
I'm pretty sure I have his birth in Liff and baptism in Dundee on 15 Sep 1829 (IGI Batch C112828). That batch gives his siblings and his parents (Thomas Sturrock and Cornelia Tait). Poor Cornelia didn't know how to spell her name - she is Carolina at her marriage on 14 Dec 1825 (image from SP) and has been mistranscribed on Ancestry as Cornella from a rather poor image.
I can't find the Sturrock family at all in 1841, despite Forfarshire being heaving with Sturrocks. All I can find is an 11-year old Thomas Sturrock all on his own, adjacent to a family of Taits in Taits Lane, Liff & Benvie. A fresh contact on GR says she is descended from Cornelia's brother but the 1841 census has a Catherine Tait but no Cornelia.
Can anyone make sense of this for me please?
From 1861 to 1901 he's in the western suburbs of Glasgow with his wife Euphemia Carse. I've found the births of their 12 children on the IGI. I know this is the correct family because the name Carse came down the family unto my M-i-L.
They married on 3 June 1853 in Dumbarton Parish Church after banns in both Dumbarton (IGI Batch M114967) and their home town of Liff & Benvie, Dundee (IGI Batch M113014 and OPR on ScotlandsPeople).
In 1851 he's with his family at 199 Hawkhill, Liff & Benvie aged 20 (mistranscribed on Ancestry as Stunock but OK on the SP image). His mother Cornelia (see below) is a widow by 1851.
I'm pretty sure I have his birth in Liff and baptism in Dundee on 15 Sep 1829 (IGI Batch C112828). That batch gives his siblings and his parents (Thomas Sturrock and Cornelia Tait). Poor Cornelia didn't know how to spell her name - she is Carolina at her marriage on 14 Dec 1825 (image from SP) and has been mistranscribed on Ancestry as Cornella from a rather poor image.
I can't find the Sturrock family at all in 1841, despite Forfarshire being heaving with Sturrocks. All I can find is an 11-year old Thomas Sturrock all on his own, adjacent to a family of Taits in Taits Lane, Liff & Benvie. A fresh contact on GR says she is descended from Cornelia's brother but the 1841 census has a Catherine Tait but no Cornelia.
Can anyone make sense of this for me please?
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