How nice to meet Australian Alastair again! However, if you read really CAREFULLY, you will realise that the parents mentioned were Irish and stayed in Ireland.( I am attempting to find them in County Leitrim but no good would come of mentioning their names here. THEY WERE IRISH and lived and died in Ireland! O.K? (the last two sentences should be read in a dull roar...) However, modulating my voice and attempting to sound bright and cheerful - I HAVE the report of the death of my ancestor, Hugh O'Brien who died "between 9 pm of 30th September and 11 am of 1st October, 1873 in High Street, Linlithgow." His body did NOT lie around for days waiting to be discovered (Alastair, you have a gothic imagination!). However, on the night that he died, his second wife Mary Travers was NOT THERE. I imagine that she was an ageing trollope and was probably out boozing and worse in one of Linlithgow's many taverns....SHE does not report her husband's death. His son-in-law travels over thirty miles by train to Linlithgow, finds him dead and reports the death to the police. Where is the widow O'Brien (who has at least three other marriages or aliases to her credit)? We don't know but she recovers from her grief to instigate court proceedings to have her late husband's assets assigned to her. Yes, Alastair, I have the documents to prove it! Now, it would be wonderful to find a contemporary newspaper report. Does anybody - not second-guessing from Australia - have any idea of which newspaper files it would be profitable to search? Is anybody descended from an O'Bren from Linlithgow? Poor Hugh O'Brien's daughter married Anthony Christy(Christie)who also came from County Leitrim. They married in Linlithgow and moved steadily westwards, ending up in Central Scotland in Dunbartonshire and then Stirlingshire. I wonder what attracted them to Linlithgow in the 1850s? This is really why I have joined this list. Were the canals stil being built in the 1850s? Were large numbers of Irish being employed in the building of the railways? One of my relatives - Peter Christy - was a gas-worker. Were large gasworks being built in West Lothian at this time? I hope that somebody can help to flesh out what is turning out to be a real-life family mystery. Kindest regards (especially to Alastair who has helped me lots in the past) Rosemary S'il te plait, monsieur, dessine-moi un mouton. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Rosemary Meechan wrote here: > > How nice to meet Australian Alastair again! However, > if you read really CAREFULLY, you will realise that > the parents mentioned were Irish and stayed in > Ireland. I have just read your original msg CAREFULLY and it doesna say anything like that! A weight off my mind, as I supposed you had 'caught me out' --------------------------------- This second posting from you tells so much more. IF it was my problem, I would NOT work upon it but shoot it off to my friend M. who lives in the district. Betcha M. would unearth a great story. She is also good at searching forwards at end of a project to find unexpected living relatives. But as YOU live in UK that might be an unwelcome outcome I know!! [we choose our friends, we are stuck with our rellies] If you would like me to supply the addresses for M. pls email me directly acameron@hinet.net.au Cheers, ALISTAIR M. CAMERON A.A.G.R.A. Professional Genealogist http://quozl.netrek.org/cameron-research/ PO Box 215 BUNDANOON NSW 2578 AUSTRALIA

I have it 15 - 30 Rosemary to serve. Bob in Oz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alistair Cameron" <acameron@hinet.net.au> To: <MIDLOTHIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [MLN] Old acquaintances and new facts > > > Rosemary Meechan wrote here: >> >> How nice to meet Australian Alastair again! However, >> if you read really CAREFULLY, you will realise that >> the parents mentioned were Irish and stayed in >> Ireland. > > I have just read your original msg CAREFULLY and it doesna > say anything like that! A weight off my mind, as I supposed > you had 'caught me out' > --------------------------------- > This second posting from you tells so much more. IF it was > my problem, I would NOT work upon it but shoot it off to my > friend M. who lives in the district. Betcha M. would unearth > a great story. She is also good at searching forwards at end > of a project to find unexpected living relatives. But as YOU > live in UK that might be an unwelcome outcome I know!! [we > choose our friends, we are stuck with our rellies] > > If you would like me to supply the addresses for M. pls > email me directly > > acameron@hinet.net.au > > Cheers, > > ALISTAIR M. CAMERON A.A.G.R.A. > > Professional Genealogist > http://quozl.netrek.org/cameron-research/ > > PO Box 215 BUNDANOON NSW 2578 AUSTRALIA > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 16/04/2005 > >