Hi Anne Thanks for this, I had forgotten to go back to the IGI after finding the LIbindex records! Alexander and Robert are both there, with Alexander registered in Forres and Robert in Kinloss. I assume that they were either married in Margaret's parish or possibly (as Robert was supposedly a Naval Tailor) at the port where he lived. Findhorn was presumably not a Navy port? Kind regards Murray >> The marvellous Libindex database shows that my Davidsons were from >> Findhorn ca 1800-1840: >> >> Robert Davidson m (ca 1800) Margaret Murray: >> Alexander (1808-1890) m (1840) Marion Grant >> and possibly: >> Isobel (1804) >> Robert (1818) > > > The IGI lists three children of this couple: > > Isobel, baptised 28 December 1804 > Margaret, baptised 21 May 1816 > Isabella Innes, baptised 25 July 1821 > > all in Kinloss. Odd that three daughters are listed, but not the three > sons, or the marriage. > > I have come across a similar family once, where the marriage and three > sons were in the Church of Scotland register but no daughters. In that > case I suspect from other evidence that the father was Protestant and > the mother Roman Catholic, and that the sons were baptised in the > father's religion and the daughters in the mother's. But so far that > is just a hunch - I still need the proof. It would also go directly > against the teaching of the RC Church. > > Anne > > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > Don't forget that if you delete a message, you can always visit the > archives of this list http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MORAY/. > The archives are also worth looking at, whether you be a new or > established lister. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > >

> Thanks for this, I had forgotten to go back to the IGI after finding the > LIbindex records! Alexander and Robert are both there, with Alexander > registered in Forres and Robert in Kinloss. Indeed they are. Weird that they don't come up when you put in the mother's surname! > I assume that they were either married in Margaret's parish or possibly > (as Robert was supposedly a Naval Tailor) at the port where he lived. > Findhorn was presumably not a Navy port? I'm not aware of it ever having been a base of the Royal Navy, but there was a good deal of mercantile traffic, taking grain from Moray to markets in the south. It could be that he was a tailor supplying both Royal and Merchant Navy. Anne

Hi Ann The information on him being a Naval Tailor comes from the Libindex database, unfortunately there is no easy way to find out who supplied this and so get the details (hopefully whoever did will see this and respond!). I suspect a Naval Tailor was a private enterprise rather than a Navy appointment, but I would have thought that he would have needed to be in a town with a Navy base. I suppose he could have 'posted' the uniforms - an early mail order catalogue perhaps? :>) Murray Anne Burgess wrote: >> Thanks for this, I had forgotten to go back to the IGI after finding >> the LIbindex records! Alexander and Robert are both there, with >> Alexander registered in Forres and Robert in Kinloss. > > Indeed they are. Weird that they don't come up when you put in the > mother's surname! > >> I assume that they were either married in Margaret's parish or >> possibly (as Robert was supposedly a Naval Tailor) at the port where >> he lived. Findhorn was presumably not a Navy port? > > I'm not aware of it ever having been a base of the Royal Navy, but > there was a good deal of mercantile traffic, taking grain from Moray > to markets in the south. It could be that he was a tailor supplying > both Royal and Merchant Navy. > > Anne > > > ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== > " Reply All " ........Please, please, please, when replying to a > posted message make sure that the reply is sent to the list and not > just the sender of the message. This is done by clicking " Reply All > " Thank you ;-) > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > >