Anyone else into seeking their ancestors?

[darksideofthemoon]

I have become adicted to Ancestry.com and am lucky enough that one side of my family can be researched way back into the dim times.

The other side has hit a brick wall and I have to wait until someone else in the world may have more information.

How is everyone else going?

[setipus]

Flashie I have a marriage certificate but none of that information is on it..its been copied from  Early Church Records

It is his second marriage to Margaret Bell (cannot find anything on her either but one problem at a time ) lol

[flashie*]

Did he get married in Scotland ...........they have wonderful records.

You might want to try browsing Scotlands People and see what you come up with....their certifiates are online for a fee.....cheaper that certificates here......

I am really gone this time.:^O

[punch*drunk]

Its such a scottish name, he must go back to scotland somewhere along the line.

What was his dads occupation?

[flashie*]

I think we can also conclude that he was born 1798.

He died in Januaury 1874 aged 75.......since it was early January we can probably say he would not have had his birthday yet.

Do you have a year for his marriage in Scotland......I do think that might be the only way of finding his parents names.

[flashie*]

Septipud....does his army records give a physical decription of him.

I ask because I have found an immigration record for an Alexander Stewart.....

[punch*drunk]

What year flashie?

[nevynreally]

Flashie

That is the problem. according to death certificate and the inscription on his head stone. Cootehill Ireland place of birth.

Army records say Inverness Scotland. His American daughter according to american census said her place of birth Scotland.

Also according to her he married his first wife in Scotland.

I thought that as his father was also served in the army as a captain maybe he was born in ireland but regestered in scotland? maybe..oh if its any help they were Protestant not catholic...

Cootehill is an Ulster stronghold. You'll probably never know where he was born for sure. The Ulster Irish had a deep kinship with Scotland.

[setipus]

Flashie

According to army records height was 5' 5'' with brown hair and grey eyes, and had a dark complexion..ohhh and i have just made out after all this time  that his papers were signed at Adj Gov's office Dublin on the 9th june 1828...he was then in the 75th foot.

[setipus]

Punchie

His father was a captain and belonged first to the 63rd and also served in the 74th Irish Regiment. He served under the two Georges and as a Color Sergeant received the colours for his regiment from the hand of her late Majesty Queen Victoria

Got that bit from a letter from the American daughter to William Stewart another son of Alexanders

[flashie*]

Nevynreally....I was thinking along those lines.

If his father was an Army man too he may well have been born in Ireland but to Scottish parents.