I'm going to he FHC just now and will gather all I can on this family, for BJ ----? Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victoria West" <vawest2000@yahoo.com> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:18 AM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Davidson-vintner-Peterhead Hi I do know that the Peterhead Yahoo Group has a great listing for BMD for the Peterhead area. Have You tried them yet? Vicki --- On Sat, 11/14/09, goldie and Lido Doratti <lidogold2@shaw.ca> wrote: From: goldie and Lido Doratti <lidogold2@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Davidson-vintner-Peterhead To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 2:55 PM One of the Peterhead films has lists of deaths. I can have a look for him if BJ wants, next Tuesday. Goldie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isobel Davidson" <Isobel.Davidson@tesco.net> To: <aberdeen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:26 AM Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Davidson-vintner-Peterhead > Margaret and family still appear to be in Buchanhaven, Peterhead in the > 1851 > census but she is a widow with Alexander head of the family and a 'Crofter > of 6ac' The youngest child is 2 so George must have died between 1849-51 > which means no death certificate I'm afraid. > > Isobel Davidson > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bj.davidson" <bj.davidson@talktalk.net> > > >>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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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