From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 13/05/2020 19:40, Ruth Wilson wrote:   
   > Here's something to keep your grey matter working!   
   >   
   > I am a pretty experienced genealogist/family historian of many years   
   > standing ... (I started young!) and I know my way around the standard   
   > sources, but I have a brick wall that involves Scotland and military   
   > resources that take me out of my comfort zone.   
   >   
   > So, read the scenario, what would you suggest I do next? Or do I just   
   > shrug my shoulders and accept the brick wall (until something turns up)?   
   >   
   > Ancestors William Fraser (soldier) and Martha McKinley marry in Paisley,   
   > 1799.   
   > They have a child baptised in Dunipace, Stirling, 1804 (that's quite a   
   > gap for a first child though ...)   
   > Two children are baptised in Stockport, Cheshire, 1806-1808. One is   
   > buried in Didsbury and the register states they are living in nearby   
   > Heaton.   
   > 1810-1816 they have three children baptised in Liverpool where their   
   > son, my ancestor, continued to live, marry, die. This son is the only   
   > one I can definitively trace - one other is possible, but I lack proof.   
   >   
   > None of the baptisms give any information on occupation - all in   
   > Independent chapels.   
   >   
   > I have found no burial or census entry for William and Martha in   
   > Liverpool or the wider Merseyside area. (There is one possible, but   
   > unlikely, burial for Martha in 1831 - unlikely as there is a child from   
   > the same address buried around the same time as daughter of Charles &   
   > Martha - I don't have a record of a Charles and I can't find Charles and   
   > Martha in Liverpool records).I have bought and rejected the likely later   
   > death certificates.   
   >   
   > There are three possible Martha McKinley baptisms on Scotland's   
   > People/Family Search. I have not yet been able to discount any of them.   
   >   
   > One possible clue - the child buried in Didsbury was Christian(a).   
   > Around the same time, Christiana McKinley, single woman of Heaton, was   
   > also buried. However, the Christiana McKinleys I have found don't   
   > correlate with the Marthas (ie not a sister).   
   >   
   > Right, any bright ideas? I will admit this has been hanging around for   
   > many years, and I suspect that "William Fraser, soldier" is just too   
   > vague. But, I live in hope that some odd record will turn up with a big   
   > clue.   
   >   
   > Thanks.   
   >   
   > Ruth   
   >   
      
   It would help if you gave all the birth/death dates/locations etc. and   
   all the names (and of those possibilities and may or may not have   
   discounted) to save use trying to piece it together?   
      
   Do you know which regiment William was in or the regiments in the towns   
   you know he was in? There was quite a lot military activity in Europe   
   and elsewhere in the early 1800s.   
      
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