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trying to find infomation on my father born 1929 aughust 23,glasgow.officially changed names in 1973.his mother"sarah jane lynch and father"john mcCafferty married in1926 31st of december

Welcome to the boards, Mark.

Have you got the marriage certificate of his parents to find out about their parents?

Do you know when and where they died?

Have you used the site (link below) for more information?

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Have you tried to contact people who may have him in their trees on here?

Parents' marriage - if you buy credits on ScotlandsPeople (link given by patchem above) you can view the image of the marriage cert, which will give you info re their parents, ages, etc:

1927 MCCAFFERTY JOHN LYNCH SARAH JANE PARTICK GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/22 0012

It's harder to find you father's birth cert (or do you already have it?).
According to SP, there no Ian McCafferty (or variation of spelling) births in Glasgow in 1929. There were 5 John McCafferty's, but as it's impossible to search with mother's maiden name, and as they're too recent to be able to view the images online, you'd have to order each certificate to see who their parents were. I don't suppose you know which area of Glasgow he was born in ?

1 1929 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M HUTCHESONTOWN GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/15 1203 No Image

2 1929 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M ST ROLLOX GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/08 1888 No Image

3 1929 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M PARTICK GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/22 0750 No Image

4 1929 MCCAFFERTY JOHN ROBERTSON M PARTICK GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/22 0105 No Image

5 1929 MCCAFFERY JOHN ADAM M DENNISTOUN GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/04 0499

To repeat Reggie's questions -
what are you hoping to learn?

Have you lost touch with your father, and want to know where he is, or if he's still alive?
Or do you want to find out about his ancestors?

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/537177

On SP, there are these deaths of men named Ian Stuart, born at the right time, but of course there's no guarantee that he died in Scotland - and he may well still be alive.
I'm assuming that you have lost touch and don't know where he is/was living. There are also several spelled Stewart - are you sure of the spelling?
Again, you'd have to order the death certs to check the parents' names, as they're too recent to view online.

2013 STUART IAN CLARK M 83 ABERDEEN /ABERDEEN 301/00 0460

2004 STUART IAN GIBB M 76 JOHNSTONE /RENFREWSHIRE 644/00 0180

1995 STUART IAN MACKENZIE M 65 GLASGOW, MARTHA ST GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 609/00 0692

There are also a few which list "other surnames", but as none of them is McCafferty, I haven't copied them here.

Deaths per SP:

1973 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M 44 HADDINGTON /EAST LOTHIAN 722/00 0156

1999 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M 70 FORFAR /ANGUS 364/00 0082
2003 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M 73 JOHNSTONE /RENFREWSHIRE 644/00 0437
2004 MCCAFFERTY JOHN BISSETT M 75 INVERCLYDE /RENFREW 640/00 0023

2004 MCCAFFERTY JOHN ROBERTSON M 75 GLASGOW, MARTHA ST /LANARK 618/00 0895
2002 MCCAFFERY JOHN M 74 GLASGOW, MARTHA ST GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 609/00 0240

As Unknown is Mark Stuart, I would suggest that that is the spelling as far as he knows.

I'll let Mark know that he has replies to his query.... :-)

Argyllgran 644_08_1088is my father for certain those details are on his birth certificate. Thankyou

Mark,

Did you mean this one?

1929 MCCAFFERTY JOHN M ST ROLLOX GLASGOW CITY/LANARK 644/08 1888

Have you attempted to contact anyone who may have him in their trees on here (including someone with the surname Stuart)?

What do you want to know?

You haven't asked a question

Thankyou all for finding the time to help me.I new my father as ian stuart but only know a tiny bit about him when he was called john McCafferty.I know he had a very hard up bringing.not sure what I'm looking for exactly but would like to know something about his dad side of the family.also I would like to find out if I have any other brother's or sister's in my searches I found a man named Gary who is definately my half brother and my dad mentioned of a girl he fathered over on the Wirral Merseyside. He wouldn't talk to anyone about his past he just cut all of it out.

How would find people on here that may of had him in there tree? I'm new to all this so pardon my ignorance :-)

Argyllgran you have may of found his parents marriage (644/22 0012) in 1927 on his birth certificate it says they were married 31-12-1926.it says my dad was born 23-08-1929 2h.35m p.m. maternity hospital Glasgow. And was registered 06-09-1929 at Glasgow

To find anyone in another tree........

Go to 'search'.....................

click on 'search all member trees'

Enter the name and birth year................

Click on 'search'..........................look at the results

And make sure your tree is on here

Stuy -

re your grandparents' marriage - a marriage on 31st December would have been registered in the first quarter of the following year.
If you've got the right names, then that is definitely their marriage which I posted.

As I suggested, if you buy credits on ScotlandsPeople, you can view the image of the certificate (and save and/or print it, if you wish).
That will give you their ages, and their parents' names, and you can then take the search further back.

That's brilliant thankyou very much.