The photo below was part of a family album collection.
I knew from the annotation that it was Hannah, the sister of my OH's Irish-born g.grandmother, Mary Frizzell, married name (B?)(L?)Aird together with someone named David.
For years, all I knew from my set of 1881 Census CDs, was that Hannah lived with her married sister and family in Glasgow. Then the Scottish censuses became available, and I finally discovered Hannah had married an elderly widower, John Laird.
Armed with a correct surname, I was able to search Canadian passenger lists when they were offered as freebies, and found she had travelled to Canada after the death of her husband, escorted by her brother in law who had taken his family to Montreal a couple of years previously. I found she crossed the border into the USA, headed for Wilmington, Delaware....then nothing. Was she going to live with David?....was he a stepson (she had no children of her own)...a cousin?
I took out an Ancestry worldwide sub this year and diligently searched through the USA censuses under every variation of name I could . All to no avail. I looked at family trees, newspapers, historic data bases...Hannah had disappeared without trace, although I knew from a collection of family postcards she was still in touch.
Finally, this afternoon, I opened 'Message boards' on Ancestry...and there she was! SKS had bought a page of marriage registrations in 2003 and out of the goodness of his/her heart had posted up the details of the other marriages on the page.
Hannah had married a David Dever in Wilmington in 1912.
As SKS wrote "I hated to see the rest of the information “go to waste,” so I’m posting it out here in the event that it may prove useful to someone else."
I can think of no other way I could have learned of this marriage and have been enabled to follow Hannah's fortunes further. My grateful thanks to SKS........and I will try to do likewise in future with all that extra data that comes my way when I buy images.
And I will certainly remember to include 'Message Boards' when I am trawling Ancestry in the future.
I knew from the annotation that it was Hannah, the sister of my OH's Irish-born g.grandmother, Mary Frizzell, married name (B?)(L?)Aird together with someone named David.
For years, all I knew from my set of 1881 Census CDs, was that Hannah lived with her married sister and family in Glasgow. Then the Scottish censuses became available, and I finally discovered Hannah had married an elderly widower, John Laird.
Armed with a correct surname, I was able to search Canadian passenger lists when they were offered as freebies, and found she had travelled to Canada after the death of her husband, escorted by her brother in law who had taken his family to Montreal a couple of years previously. I found she crossed the border into the USA, headed for Wilmington, Delaware....then nothing. Was she going to live with David?....was he a stepson (she had no children of her own)...a cousin?
I took out an Ancestry worldwide sub this year and diligently searched through the USA censuses under every variation of name I could . All to no avail. I looked at family trees, newspapers, historic data bases...Hannah had disappeared without trace, although I knew from a collection of family postcards she was still in touch.
Finally, this afternoon, I opened 'Message boards' on Ancestry...and there she was! SKS had bought a page of marriage registrations in 2003 and out of the goodness of his/her heart had posted up the details of the other marriages on the page.
Hannah had married a David Dever in Wilmington in 1912.
As SKS wrote "I hated to see the rest of the information “go to waste,” so I’m posting it out here in the event that it may prove useful to someone else."
I can think of no other way I could have learned of this marriage and have been enabled to follow Hannah's fortunes further. My grateful thanks to SKS........and I will try to do likewise in future with all that extra data that comes my way when I buy images.
And I will certainly remember to include 'Message Boards' when I am trawling Ancestry in the future.
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