I just did some look-ups on the OPR films on Peterhead on DAVIDSON I have here at the FHC for someone else. I'll dig thru the notes and see what I can come up with. Can you get his death certificate? There are errors on some of them as people were upset or just didn't know who the parents were, but mostly it's good info. This would give you some info on George Davidson. Civil registration became law in 1855, so if he lived that long it would be my first choice. You can also follow the family on the census infomation. The one I followed for the other person was James Davidson, shoemaker and Helen McKenzie and their family. But I took some baptism notes down, be aware I didn't take all of them. If you send me some dates I'll see what I've got. Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "bj.davidson" <bj.davidson@talktalk.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 2:55 AM Subject: [ABERDEEN] Davidson-vintner-Peterhead >I have just started to research the male side of my family tree and am new >to the List so I hope I am not going over old ground. Using 'Scotland's >People' website I have managed to trace back via a line of William >Davidson, all farm workers, to a George Davidson of Buchanhaven, Peterhead >listed in the 1841 census as aged 40, occupation Sp. dist.(which I take to >be Spirits Distributor.) From family birth certificate records I know he >married a Margaret Smart on 23-03-1826, both from Peterhead, and that he >gave his occupation as 'vintner'. I grew up in N.E. Scotland from the 1940s >to the 1960s and I cannot recall ever coming across 'vintner' as an >occupation. Obviously, I know it means wine merchant today, but my >questions are:- > a) what exactly was a 'vintner' back then? > b) how common was it as an occupation? > c) is it likely to have passed from father to son? > I have traced a Charles Davidson who had a son,George, by his wife Jean > Farquhar, in 1801 and who also gives his occupation as 'vintner' but the > location is Inverurie. In the absence of any other George Davidson born > around 1800 in the locality of Peterhead, how confident can I be that I am > making the correct link to the birth of George Davidson and is there any > other means by which I can confirm it? > Thanks in hopeful anticipation, > Brian Davidson > > ------------------------------- > 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 >