Might he have been applying for some pension or other fund to assist his living expenses and found he was not registered ? I can only think he was somehow needing legal documentation that he was born in Elgin [or somewhere] and found he wasn't originally registered in the county of his birth. If he wrote to Edinburgh with evidence of his birthplace, perhaps they registered him there [Edinburgh] ? Is that the parish where Edinburgh sits ? Its Midlothian County, but I am not that familiar with the local parishes and what they contain. GENUKI has information and a link for a map. Canongate is near the city center but its a large city and could be way past the facilities I'm thinking of. The film this came off of is Canongate Old Parish Records. It included a section called Neglected Entries and had a book specifically dedicated for those entries. MegG ------------------------

> Might he have been applying for some pension or other fund to > assist his > living expenses and found he was not registered ? I can only > think he > was somehow needing legal documentation that he was born in > Elgin [or > somewhere] and found he wasn't originally registered in the > county of > his birth. If he wrote to Edinburgh with evidence of his > birthplace, > perhaps they registered him there [Edinburgh] ? Possibly, but he doesn't seem to have had any other connections there. The logical place to write to would have been to Elgin so that he could have been included in the Register of Neglected Entries there. Unless of course General Register House and New Register House are actually in the parish of Canongate, and thus Canongate became the repository for all the neglected entries after the parish registers were gathered into the keeping of the Registrar General. I don't have a detailed map of which streets were in which parish in the City of Edinburgh. > Is that the parish > where Edinburgh sits ? The Canongate was originally a separate burgh and parish next door to the parish of Edinburgh, but it is now within the City of Edinburgh. > Its Midlothian County County of Midlothian, not Midlothian County; and for a time it was called the County of Edinburgh, or Edinburghshire. Anne

According to the "History of the Burgh of Canongate" the NW boundary ran along Leith Wynd. I cannot find that street on a current street map, but looking at the 1870-1877 city map on the National Library website http://geo.nls.uk/ostowns, the boundary line is quite a ways SE of Register House. And the Burgh of Canongate became part of Edinburgh in 1865. -- Jo-Ann -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Anne Burgess" <anne.burgess@btinternet.com> > > Unless of course General Register House and New Register House > are actually in the parish of Canongate, and thus Canongate > became the repository for all the neglected entries after the > parish registers were gathered into the keeping of the Registrar > General. I don't have a detailed map of which streets were in > which parish in the City of Edinburgh. >