Good evening Mike, Sorry it's taken so long to give you feedback but I've not been able to chase up the potential leads till now due to work demands. I've been "back on the case" and followed the advice below. Unfortunately, the records were not the correct ones. Checking who the results below were married to (in the death certificates produced) completely different names. I do (however) have a new option in trying to trace where exactly in County Tyrone the McGachan's came from. I have been in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland and found that for a one off fee (of £15) you can access unlimited amounts of records for a whole day (in Scotland's People database). I have now lined up access for a day in early January which will allow me to check the many possible matches that I might find. May take a while - but worth a shot! It could be that William and Mary went back to Tyrone, but I will now access much more records come January to narrow things down. Thanks once again for your input. Really appreciate it. I will hopefully have something to report back from (where exactly in Tyrone my family history leads to) soon........... Have a great Christmas and New Year. Regards, Craig Ryan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Kelly" <[email protected]> To: "Craig Ryan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] McGachans of Gargadis, County Tyrone > Craig, > > I went onto Scotland's People and went to the Statutory Registers. There I > chose deaths, entered the surname McGahan with Fuzzy match option, the > forename William, chose male with years ranging from 1881 -1921, Birth > year 1832 + or - 5 years, enterd All Records under city etc, and Airdrie > for District. It gave back 1 match. > > I tried using the name Maria and it give no matches at all. > Then again for Mary, but I used surname variants as the option for her > still using McGahan. Birth year 1836 + or - 5 years, chose female with the > same year range 1881 -1921, same district Airdrie, no specified city just > all records. I got one match. > > I do not have credits with the site to tell you how close these matches > are, but I thought you may find them yourself using the same format. > > > Regards, > > Michael Kelly > > Emporium, > Cameron County, > Pennsylvania, > United States of America > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig Ryan > Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] McGachans of Gargadis, County Tyrone > > Hello Mike, > thanks a lot for the help. > > At this point of research, I'm slightly further forward - > but not fully there yet! > > Plus point - I finally found the wedding record of > William > and Mary. > > The names are listed in Scotland's People database as > follows: > Gulielmus William McGachie married Maria Mary Cumming. > > The date is listed as 3rd January 1853. That ties in with > their first born child (my great great grandfather) James McGachan on 29th > December 1853. Their marriage, and his baptism were both recorded in St > Margaret's Roman Catholic Church in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland. > > They are listed as County Tyrone, Ireland, but in the > (barely) legible electronic copy I have it does look like her maiden > surname > is Cunningham. I might have to visit the chapel itself. > > I have searched Scotland's People site for deaths of > both > of them, without success. As mentioned, my last trace of them is > Lanarkshire > in the 1881 census. > > I have found no deaths with anyone similar in the > Glasgow/Lanarkshire area with names of Gahan, McGahan, McGachan, McGachie, > McGaehen etc from 1881 to 1921. > > I have paid for some records only to find they are not > who I am looking for. > > My next point of call will be to check records in the > Mitchell Library in Glasgow, or even check passenger lists. Maybe they > went > back to County Tyrone in later life? > > I do need a death certificate to try and source parents > names. That will take me back to County Tyrone and solve it once and for > all. > > Thanks again for the help. Nearly there I suppose. > > Craig. > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.2308, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.21450) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.2308, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.21460) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 9.0.0.2308, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.21710) http://www.pctools.com/ =======