Hi Gay i am interested in your duncan mctaggart as i have a duncan mctaggart (my ggrandfatherx4) who was married to a rose ann o'hara, i have been unable to find their marriage cert but have both their death certs. Now his parents were a duncan mctaggart(farmer)and a rachel taylor and as far as i am aware they were from islay (kilmochan i think). Now Duncan and Rose Ann moved to Glasgow and had several children who all died apart from one called malcolm who was born in bowmore in islay. I have not been able to find a birth cert for duncan mctaggart but death cert in Aug 30th 1864 states duncan was aged 40 when he died. I have often wondered if Duncan was married before he married RoseAnn O,Hara. Now i have been told that ages were often wrong on death certs. the reason why i am curious is that you are unable to find details. Now someone went to the national archives for me and stated that when they tried to find information on my duncan mctaggart,s parents they drew a complete blank but did find a Malcolm McTaggart and Rachel Taylor having children , Alexander died 30th May 1858 in Kilchoma(Coulabus) died of consumption, Neil Mctaggart who was informant of alexander,s death was a brother but no other details known, another brother Malcolm was married in Islay in 1857 aged 28 to a Catherine McNiven. Several people have advised me that Duncan may have actually been a middle name but i have also drawn a complete blank. Can you tell me the names of any other McTaggart,s you have found as i am trying to connect my duncan mctaggart. jacqueline mctaggart --- Gay King <gayking@aci.on.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > Ann and Mary McTaggart were born April 27, 1839 in > Kilchoman to Duncan > McTAGGART and Mary MITCHELL. I found a marriage for > Duncan and Mary on Jan > 5, 1836, Kilchoman as well. I have also found this > family in the 1841 census > at Ballinaby, Kilchoman. > > > > I found a possible baptism for Duncan on November > 27, 1813, Kildalton, with > parents Arch McTagairt and Marion McCuaig. > > > > I have searched the archives and found mentions of > McTaggarts, but not > Duncan in particular. > > > > Does anyone have any information on or connections > to this family? > Especially to confirm whose parents Duncan's or > Marion's were? > > > > Thanks! > > Gay > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== SCT-ISLAY Mailing List ==== > To find Vital Statistics for islay from the earliest > records to 1875 visit: > HTTP://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~tlarson/bdm/ > > jackie ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

Hi Jacqueline, The information I have is that Duncan McTaggart married Mary Mitchell Jan 5, 1836 in Kilchoman. Duncan and Mary were listed as 25 in the 1841 census. They had 7 children with the first born in 1836 and the last (that I found) in 1846 so I would imagine Duncan and Mary were born about 1812-1815. The names of their children were: Archibald Esther Mary Ann Alexander Christian John Based on your information of your Duncan's children and his age at death, I don't think we are speaking of the same family. I haven't yet gone to Scotland's People in hopes of finding one of those lovely informative death certificates as I thought I would post to this most informative list! If you see a connection in the above, please let me know. Thanks, Gay