Thank you, Bob, for your input about the KERR family. Yes, that's the family on FamilySearch and yes, I found 6 children, the last being twins, David & Christian. I've been paying to view the images on ScotlandsPeople. That way, I get the village place name and the names of the witnesses. Another member on the list suggested that the "Marget Kerr" death record may not be the Margaret Anderson who married Walter Kerr -- that married women used their maiden names, even on death records and monument inscriptions. I have a feeling that my KERRs, while not paupers, were not well off. I do not yet know Walter Kerr's occupation, but his son, George, my ancestor, was a coalier and was actually listed as a pauper/coalminer on the 1851 census. I don't expect to find that they would have been memorialized with a monument, but would they still be on a cemetery register? Maurine > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:01:17 -0700 > From: "Nuttall Family" <nuttall@surewest.net> > Subject: [MIDLOTHIAN] Verifying deaths/burials > To: <MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <B468A811F0324CCD9EBC8DD8598252EF@Maurine> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello, > > I'm fairly new to Scottish research and am in the middle of a research > project about my Scottish "roots." I would appreciate any guidance as to > how to verify that a death record pre-1855 is the correct one for my > ancestor. The death record is so brief (just the name). . .is there some > other record to back it up? > > For example, my ancestor, Walter Kerr married (2) Margaret Anderson, about > 1787. They had six children, the sixth being born in 1798. Margaret was > born about 1766. They lived in Liberton at Hunters-hall. The only > death/burial record I could find on ScotlandsPeople that is a possibility > for Margaret is Marget Kerr, July 11, 1803 at Liberton, the mortcloth 2 L > V, 2 sh 6 pence. Would there be an entry in the cemetery register, or is > this the only record? > > Thanks, in advance, for any advice. > > Maurine Nuttall > nuttall@surewest.net > Granite Bay, CA, USA > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:11:22 -0600 > From: hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Kerr - Anderson Liberton > To: midlothian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4AB9599A.7030805@telus.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > H Maurine, > > Saw your request for death conformation, probably not much available but > a check via the FHC may produce some additional data - OPRs if available. > > Did a check of the LDS data available and found some of the children > connected with this family. It would appear they had twins in late 1798 > unless there are two families with the same surnames in Liberton. You > mention six could only find four. > > Hope it helps somewhat > Bob > Cdn > ------------------ > > KER > Thomas > Christening > Gender: Male > Birth Date: 19 Jun 1790 > Christening Date: 27 Jun 1790 > Recorded in: Liberton Midlothian Scotland > Father: Walter KER > Mother: Margaret ANDERSON > Source: FHL Film 1067783 > Dates: 1771 - 1820 > > KERR > Jean > Christening > Gender: Female > Birth Date: 5 Sep 1794 > Christening Date: 14 Sep 1794 > Recorded in: Liberton Midlothian Scotland > Father: Walter KERR > Mother: Margaret ANDERSON > Source: FHL Film 1067783 > Dates: 1771 - 1820 > > KERR > Christian > Christening > Gender: Female > Birth Date: 11 Sep 1798 > Christening Date: 14 Sep 1798 > Recorded in: Liberton Midlothian Scotland > Father: Walter KERR > Mother: Margaret ANDERSON > Source: FHL Film 1067783 > Dates: 1771 - 1820 > > KERR > David > Christening > Gender: Male > Birth Date: 10 Sep 1798 > Christening Date: 14 Sep 1798 > Recorded in: Liberton Midlothian Scotland > Father: Walter KERR > Mother: Margaret ANDERSON > Source: FHL Film 1067783 > Dates: 1771 - 1820 > ============= > Nuttall Family wrote: >> ...For example, my ancestor, Walter Kerr married (2) Margaret Anderson, >> about 1787. They had six children, the sixth being born in 1798. >> Margaret was born about 1766. They lived in Liberton at Hunters-hall. >> The only death/burial record I could find on ScotlandsPeople that is a >> possibility for Margaret is Marget Kerr, July 11, 1803 at Liberton, the >> mortcloth 2 L V, 2 sh 6 pence. Would there be an entry in the cemetery >> register, or is this the only record?... >> > =============== > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MIDLOTHIAN list administrator, send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MIDLOTHIAN mailing list, send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of MIDLOTHIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 161 > ****************************************** >