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From: "Andy Candlish" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] (no subject)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:27:30 +1100
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Hi Kirsteen

Ann Dalgarno died 3rd March 1859, I've sent a copy of a page from the
Aberdeen Journal with details direct. It looks like George re-married in
1860 to Jane Watson.

One strange thing, according to the IGI Ann Dalgarno was the mother of
William Anderson Slesser born March 1860 but I suspect that the father was
George Slesser (jnr) and that he was the informant and upon being asked
"mothers name" gave his own mothers name rather than the babies mother. Ann
Dalgarno was the mother of a child named William in June 1856 but that child
is with his father George and step-mother Jane in the 1861 census.

Andy


> Hi Ray
>
> One of my headaches right now (out of several) is Ann Dalgarno she married
> George Slesser in 1834, she was still alive in 1856 when her youngest son
> was
> born, she was still Alive in 1861 when her son John Died age 19 years in
> Smallburn Old Deer,
>
> I Have every Ann Dalgarno death certificate downloaded from Scotland's
> people
> plus all the variations of Dalgarno that were there. many of them died
> single, and I have gone over them all with a fine tooth comb, but none of
> these
> Anne's seem to be her, either too old to have had children when the
> children were
> born, or too young, and then the ones who died single, none that say
> married
> with no husbands name mentioned, so in a real quandary
>
> I believe i know who Anne's parents are, from the children's middle names,
> but i do not want to presume anything, as the names could have come from
> aunts
> and uncles, but then the Anne's I have none of them have the parents whom
> i
> thought were her parents, I am just digging myself a deeper and deeper
> hole that
> I cannot get out of, and it is driving me crazy,
>
> I have one who died in 1856 , age 83, so I know it is not her
> Another in 1866 age 63, she would have been too old to be having children
> in
> 1856
> then all the others are after 1870 who were actually Dalgarno's so way
> too
> old to be her or too young,
>
> Kirsteen

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