Sorry, I had a typo in my last email. It should have read early marriages 1800-1927. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Hammond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] John McDonald - finding his wife's family > Hi Darryl and Elizabeth > > Have you tried this site http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onvsr/ > > There are some early marriages 1900-1927 arranged by county. > > Jean > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "elizabeth mcdonald" <[email protected]> > To: "isle of mull roots" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:48 PM > Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] John McDonald - finding his wife's family > > >> >> Dear Darryl, >> I guess I am not able to help you further. >> >> I understood that births, marriages and deaths >> registration >> began in Ontario in 1869, not the 1880's. >> >> In the first few years, the indexes on microfilm lump >> circa >> 1869 to 1874 all together as not all citizens complied initially. >> >> One other thought of what I have found occasionally. >> Sometimes a child in the family (eg perhaps Christina McDonald aged 6 in >> the 1841 census) has a different surname than the family. And sometimes >> this is because a teenage daughter of the family had a child out of >> wedlock, the child bears the father's surname, but the mother's family is >> raising it. I have found this two or three times. >> >> Happy New Year. >> >> All the best. >> >> Elizabeth. >> >> > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 6753 (20111229) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >