Genealogy Chat

Good grief this branch of my tree are driving me completely mad the possible mistranscriptions and the swopping between Mc Mac and then either with a space between that and the Farlane part are sending my brain squiffy! despite the fact that I struggle to find a lot of them on the census's for the above reason has been bad enough but thanks to help off kind people on here and my determination I've managed to plot gappy bits on most of them. NOW..... I've got a new one that has sprung up as a 20 year old nephew on his aunties 1901 census entry who has married and is now Charlotte Strong. Thomas McFarlane is showing as 'nephew' and a marine engineer born in Liverpool. I can find 3 Thomas McFarlane's (no Macs though) in 1891 census - 2 are 9 and 1 is 11. Neither of the 9 year olds have been born in Liverpool or live there at the time of the census. Leaving me with the 11 year old, who was born in Liverpool and is living in toxteth park at the time of the census. He is the son of Thomas McFarlane (age 44) from whitehaven, cumbria, although i dont have him on my tree. Charlotte is the youngest of 7 and her eldest brother is born in 1856. Thomas snr would have been approx 47. Not too soon for Charlottes mum to have had him, but appears nowhere on my info. Charlottes and her sisters very over the boarder between

ooops- hit the add button when i hadnt finished! any way, Charlotte and her older brothers and sisters births vary between cockermouth/whitehaven and scotland as the family play hopskotch over the boarder. could it be as simple as an term of nephew being over stretched to a 2nd cousin or branch of the McFarlanes I havent yet got? or do i order the birth cert for him when it could tell me something different - bearing in mind there are 2 Thomas McFarlanes born in 1870 and 71 both in west derby, none actually in Liverpool. I also cannot find a birth for a Thomas McFarlane circa 1847 in the whitehaven area. Or do i just ignore his mysterious pop up? lol R x

1891 Thomas McFarlane abt 1881 Liverpool Grandson West Derby Lancashire

I have found mystery nephew Thomas with his father thomas the sanitory inspector from whitehaven again in toxteth in the 1881 Census (with the gap between Mc and Farlane) with lots more children, but it still doesnt explain the link to Charlotte Strong nee McFarlane and her siblings to make mystery Thomas McFarlane her nephew.... :o(

Hi Jim where have you found the grandson thomas one? I can only get the 3 listed ones on find my past :o( charlottes mother was agnes who was a widow my then and I have her in 1891, without any grandchildren. Where do i look? R x

I think this is him 1881 Infant Mc Farline Liverpool, Lancashire, England Grandson West Derby Lancashire

found him as a grand daug son on here on the 1891 census in w.derby living at 49 Bremner St got the image up and cant read the grandparents surnames but its not mcfarlane lol there are 3 grandchildren - Thomas, 10, James, 11, and Sarah, 8 It could be the eldest of Charlottes brothers? John is in the 'Northern Hospital' in Liverpool as a patient, 26, mariner in 1881 and again poss him as a servant/buttler at Sale Hall in Sale, but I cant find a wife/children for him.

the grandparents are both from Scotland - i love it when its SO specific! :o( Their surname could be Mastow, Maslow???

marriage John Russell McFarlane 1878 Jul-Aug-Sep Liverpool (1837-1924) Lancashire Elizabeth Morton 1878 Jul-Aug-Sep Liverpool (1837-1924) Lancashire These are the parents of the grandson 1881/1891

Aaaaaaaaah, which would fit for Charlottes eldest brother then! Thank you very much you are a star :o)

wonder why he was with his grandparents and then his auntie? John obviously made it out of hopsital to father Thomas's younger sister, made my next step is to search for the parents deaths :o( Ho hum the roller coster ride of geneology

Thanks again, Ive not got the two boys and mum with grandparents whilst dad was in hospital. definate death for father - 1887 and poss death for mother, 1885 how sad, bless them all