Hi ThurnX This is to correct the dates I gave for Scotland's Great Disruption. The various events of the Disruption took place over more than a decade decade but 18 May 1843 is generally to be "Disruption Day" when 193 of the Church of Scotland ministers marched out of the Assembly in Edinburgh in protest the practice of heritors appointing the ministers in each church instead of the individual congregations. Eventually the Free Church of Scotland with about 33% of the people created 700 new congregations throughout Scotland. These new congregations were inconsistant in maintaining BMD registers and the situation was so chaotic over the next dozen years that civil registration was established in 1855 After many transformations over the next eighty-six years the most of the presbyterian churches in Scotland were united again in 1929. Robin Hallam Duncan, British Columbia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henry Robert HALLAM" <rhallam@shaw.ca> To: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com>; <dunbartonshire-genweb@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [DUNB] Campbell.Simpson Surnames > Hi ThuranX > > > I understand your frustration with finding the right six year old Mary > Campbell in the 1851 census. It took me a fair time before I sorted out > my > Campbell family in Dunbartonshire. One problem I had was that they were > always moving back and forth across the Clyde between Dunbartonshire, > Renfrewshire, Ayreshire, Lanarkshire and Rothesay in Buteshire. All these > counties were just a few miles apart along the Clyde and river > transportation was inexpensive. > > Your Mary's birth is just 18 months after the Great Disruption and > birth/baptismal records in Scotland are very poor in Scotland from the > Great > Disruption of early 1844 up until statuatory registration started in 1855. > There is less than a 50/50 chance that there is any record of Mary's > baptism > or birth. > > Searching the 1851 and 1861 census is not as difficult as you suggest > since > it is possible to narrow down the age and location of the search and most > important include the firsts name of another family member ie your > Archibald. > > If you send me your email address I will send you a 30 March 1851 entry > for > Greenock of a 6 year old Mary Campbell with a father, 44 year old widower > Archibald Campbell. They are not indicated as born in Dumbarton but there > is always the possibility of a error depending on who the informant was. > It > was the custom at that time for a woman to be with her Mother for the > birth > of her first child and not at her usual place or town of residence. > > Robin Hallam > Duncan, British Columbia > rhallam@shaw.ca > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUNBARTONSHIRE-GENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >