Errol I can't help you directly with your family, except to say that John Coombe Maddever MINEHAN would undoubtedly have been named after Dr John Coombe MADDEVER, for many years a well known Rothesay doctor whose name appears on many death certicates there (including some in my family). Don't expect therefore to find the name Maddever in earlier generations of your family - unless you know something that I do not. Martyn -----Original Message----- From: Errol Nilson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 13 August 2000 15:05 Subject: Rothesay, Bute, Minehan >Hi Listers, > > >I'm trying once again to sort out my elusive Grandmother >Alice Minehan, Married my Grandfather on 22.05.1911 in Proserpine, Qld. Australia, on her marriage certificate it shows birthplace, Rothsay, Buteshire, Scotland. age 27 yrs >maths show that she was born around 1884. Shows parents as Peter Minehan mother Alice Carrigan. Fathers profession, Merchant. IGI record : >Alice Minehan b. 8.02.1873 Rothesay, Bute, Scotland. >Father Peter Minehan, Mother Alice Kerrigan. 11 yrs too old although someone on the list did suggest that sometimes names were recycled if one died young???? >Maybee census 1891 might be revealing ??? Anyone outhere got a copy??? IGI also shows John Coombe Maddever Minehan, b. 4.04.1871, Rothesay, Bute, Parents >Peter Minehan, mother Alice Kerrigan. Carrigan ??? Kerrigan ??? same ??? >Also found Qld. State Archives, Alice Minehan age 28 yrs. >left London 28.10.1910, arrived Brisbane 26.12.1910 on board the "S S Perthshire " makes b. 1882 ???? >Any and all help greatfully received. > >Errol S. Nilson Mount Isa, Qld. Australia. > >