Hi Ray I don't know if you have tried this site in your search for James Bishop http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home As the name implies it is a pilot website of the LDS Church and I find it pretty amazing for US and Canadian records. I had a great uncle who just vanished from records after 1871 but I found him in San Francisco in the 1900 USA census records on this site. Unfortunately he then disappears again but this may be due to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 which destroyed a lot of documents. However I did turn up the actual image of the marriage licence of James Bishop and Mary Meldrum in Cook County, Illinois and the signed off date of 4 May 1874. The 1900 census for Cook County has a James Bishop born Illinois Aug 1954 and classed as Widower. The 1860 census has a James Bishop age 6 at Macoupin, Illinois possibly the same fellow. The other thing I like about the pilot site is that it is free and most of the images which can be downloaded are also free Regards George On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Suzanne Walker <swalker7736@yahoo.com>wrote: > Hi Ray. You may already be aware of the following, but the State of > Illinois has a pretty robust set of databases available online. It might be > worth scouting around a bit to see if there's anything that would help you > narrow down what became of your James BISHOP (or at least eliminate some > other James Bishops from consideration). > > http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases.html > > Regards, Suzanne Walker > > > --------------- > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:25:48 Ray Hennessy wrote: > > ... We are looking for a James BISHOP, > Sheena's great-grandfather. He married Mary Ann MELDRUM of Ellon in > Chicago in 1874 and they had a daughter, Margaret BISHOP in 1876 in > Richmond Illinois. > > Mary Ann and Margaret were back in Ellon by 1881 without James and we > have been unable to discover anything about him. the family story is > that he was left behind in the US but, as we can't find him for > certain on any US Census, we are wondering if he returned to Scotland > [if indeed he came from Scotland!!]. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- George Brander Torre de la Horadada España

Thanks George We actually have the original marriage certificate which by some miracle was preserved through 130 years and many hands so we know what there is to know about the marriage. Unfortunately there is very little information on it except that James was from Winnetka and the marriage was in Cook County. We also have an index entry of the birth of their daughter in Richmond IL. As we have no age for James BISHOP finding him is a bit hit or miss. I'm hoping we will be able to find an entry on the 1870 or 1880 Census records giving an age but so far no luck. I'll have a scan on the LDS site, thanks, and see where that gets me. We are also trying to find out how and when Mary MELDRUM went to the US and whether she took her young son [Thomas Anderson KING, born 1867] with her. It's all very obscure but we keep on trying. Thanks again to you and the others who have offered help& advice Ray On 21 February 2010 14:45, George Brander <george.brander@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ray > > I don't know if you have tried this site in your search for James Bishop > http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home > > As the name implies it is a pilot website of the LDS Church and I find it pretty amazing for US and Canadian records. I had a great uncle who just vanished from records after 1871 but I found him in San Francisco in the 1900 USA census records on this site. Unfortunately he then disappears again but this may be due to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 which destroyed a lot of documents. > > However I did turn up the actual image of the marriage licence of James Bishop and Mary Meldrum in Cook County, Illinois and the signed off date of 4 May 1874. The 1900 census for Cook County has a James Bishop born Illinois Aug 1954 and classed as Widower. The 1860 census has a James Bishop age 6 at Macoupin, Illinois possibly the same fellow. > > The other thing I like about the pilot site is that it is free and most of the images which can be downloaded are also free > > Regards > > George > > -- > George Brander > Torre de la Horadada > España

Hi, I am trying to find descendants of the following: Patricia Gibson Bremner b 15 Jan 1889 28 Chapel St. Turriff and Elizabeth Agnes Bremner b Dec 11 1892 at same address, daughters of Peter Bremner and Christina Paterson M June 8 1878 New Byth. Both went to Pennsylvania, USA where Patricia married Stafford Coulter. I have most of the information on this family taken from Ancestry. However I cannot trace Elizabeth apart from finding her on Passenger lists one which states she is going to her sister Margaret Douglas in Washington DC. It would seem most of the children of Peter and Christina Bremner immigrated to various parts of the USA. If anyone is researching this family, I would be pleased to hear from them. Kind Regards   Marina