Hi Ryk thanks, will have a look for these. My McGrigor family seems to originate fron Ruid na Craig/ Ruinacraig (Ruidnacraig), Balquhidder (Janet's family), but can't get further as her baptism 1784, could be the one which, badly damaged has "J"& sex depending on where you look as unknown or male. Her death cert 1872 (age 90) has parents as John McGrigor & Christian (Christina) Mclaren (m 1783 OPR). Have pieced together a family for them also. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryk & Heather" <ryk.heather@cogeco.ca> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:01 AM Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] BROWN Duncan bc 1817 Callander > Having done a lot of work with Callander parish records over the years for > our Stewarts my observations are that the Callander OPR itself is > incomplete > with several years missing. There was also a very active Anglican church > community around Glen Finglas and Loch Venacher, so many baptisms from > this > area are Anglican, not C of S. However the C of S parish church in > Callander did copy many of the Anglican baptisms into its own parish > register during the mid-18th century. But you would be wise to search for > Anglican records for other years. Furthermore we have found than many of > the settlements around Loch Katrine in Upper Strathgartney were so far > distant from the parish church in Callander that the residents just > couldn't > be bothered to travel that far for baptisms so we have found that for > families at the far west end of the parish there are frequently huge gaps > in > the family baptisms. We have found with rural Callander families it is > often necessary to reconstruct the families from other records and merely > estimate some births. > > Ryk Brown > Stewarts of Balquhidder Research Group > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Paton" <christopherpaton@tiscali.co.uk> > To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:28 AM > Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] BROWN Duncan bc 1817 Callander > > >> The IGI is less complete than ScotlandsPeople when it comes to Church of >> Scotland records (and has no extracted Scottish Catholic parish records), >> but it does also hold some non-Church of Scotland extracted index entries >> for some dissenting Presbyterian parishes. Hugh Wallis's site shows these >> on >> the Scottish batch numbers page, but it is only a handful. >> >> It's worth exploring the Statistical Index for Callander and surrounding >> parishes to see what other denominations were in the area, as he may not >> have been necessarily Church of Scotland. See >> http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/sas/sas.asp?action=public&passback= If >> he >> wasn't Church of Scotland you may need to check other parish records at >> the >> NAS in Edinburgh - most non Church of Scotland denominations for that >> period >> are under CH3. He may also simply not have been baptised! >> >> On the IGI, it's worth noting that you can also search this using the >> Scots >> Origins site without needing to know batch numbers - see >> www.originsnetwork.com/SOWelcome.aspx for separate search screens for >> baptisms and marriages. >> >> Chris >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Iain Kennedy" <ikennedy_msdn2@hotmail.com> >> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:13 PM >> To: <perthshire@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [PERTHSHIRE] BROWN Duncan bc 1817 Callander >> >>> >>> Have you experimented with familysearch.org to get a crude >>> reconstruction >>> of the family? You can do a children search to get all the potential >>> children of James Brown and Janet McGregor, then try to work out if they >>> all belong to the same parents. There is only one visible parents >>> marriage >>> for those two, but it could still be two families with only one having a >>> recorded marriage. >>> >>> Also you can always use the Hugh Wallis IGI Batch interface (google it) >>> to >>> zoom in on a particular parish like Callander. >>> >>> Remember though that ScotlandsPeople is more complete than the IGI and >>> to >>> make sure with the latter that you are looking at church extract >>> records. >>> >>> You should end up with more children than those you mentioned. >>> >>> Iain Kennedy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> http://www.kennedydna.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------- >>>> From: rusty_york@xtra.co.nz >>>> To: perthshire@rootsweb.com >>>> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:31:41 +1200 >>>> Subject: [PERTHSHIRE] BROWN Duncan bc 1817 Callander >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I have found Duncan BROWN bc 1817 in Callander. I found him with his >>>> mother & family in the 1841 census, & again in later censuses, also as >>>> a >>>> witness in his brothers death, in 1859. >>>> He died in Glasgow 1897 @80. >>>> >>>> I cannot, however, find his birth, I have found Alexander b 1820 & >>>> Finlay >>>> b 1822. nothing much else, other than Finlay in 1841 census with the >>>> family. >>>> >>>> Is someone able to advise please if Duncan is a name that would >>>> interchange with Alexander or any other name? (as in something like >>>> Janet-Jessie-Jean). >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> Jan (NZ) >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PERTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message