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Duncan Marriage in Birmingham lookup/help please
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 04:30 |
Hoping for some help with finding a definite date for this marriage - James Robert Duncan married Caroline Davis in Birmingham in 1857 - and possibly also his parents details - father was George Duncan, apparently born in England (don't know where) according to the 1841 census, married to an Isabella Mushett in Glasgow in 1836, but returned to England later, and lived in Liverpool, till he passed away possibly 1865. |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 05:49 |
The only way to get an exact date of marriage is to send for the certificate... |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:08 |
1851 |
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:12 |
Wow - the names certainly add up, as they had two kids, James and Eliza - I think it could be, certainly opens up some different lines to follow - I did see a Newcastle Goerge, but wasn't sure about it - I'll go back and check now. thanks Vera |
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Flip | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:15 |
There's a public member tree on Ancestry with quite a lot of details on this family - belongs to Arthur Daner. If you don't have a sub, you can view it using the mundia site. There are also photos of the family. |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:15 |
My laptop is on the blink.......so if I don't get back to you thats why :-)) |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:19 |
Good find Flip. |
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Flip | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:20 |
I can't view the image it is missing from ancestry, but think James arrived in Melborne 24/1/1872 - was in Aus for a while then turns up on New Zealand ERs. Think son Frederick stayed in Australia though. |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:23 |
Trying to find George Duncan b 1819 Newcastle on Tyne ? on the 1861 so far no luck. |
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:27 |
Awesome Flip - that is definitely the James I am after, and yes the family travelled to Australia in 1872, then in 1886 to New Zealand - the occupations are interesting, as James and later his son Charles (born in Australia) were newspaper printing engineers in NZ |
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:32 |
I have found an 1881 Census record on Family Search, which shows a birth in 1817 for George, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but married to a Martha - seems she is much younger, so I'm wondering if Isabella died and he remarried? |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:33 |
1861 |
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Flip | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:36 |
The tree I was looking at shows a death for Isabella in 1862 - address 17 Wilbraham St! So it looks like the right census Vera. |
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Flip | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:45 |
Geo Duncan |
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Vera | Report | 19 Aug 2013 06:46 |
Andrew, |
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 07:02 |
I'm on Mundia now Flip, huge amount of information, definitely the right family, and George is definitely born in Newcastle, cheers Vera |
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Flip | Report | 19 Aug 2013 07:08 |
Looks like you have a "ready made" family history - I would normally be cautious about other trees, but a couple of those have so many certificates etc they look to have been well researched. |
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Andrew | Report | 19 Aug 2013 07:28 |
Definitely Flip - sooo much of this matches what I have independently found, though there are a few small date mistakes, so I will contact the tree creator to compare notes - thanks so much for putting me onto Mundia, I didn't even know it existed! |