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Just a quick update for everyone who was kind enough to lend a hand! I'm no further foward but really do appreciate all the help i've recieived while on this site. My membership ends on April 2nd and I won@t be renewing it for a while. It's been nice. Thankyou.

GEORGE OXLEY Pedigree
Male
Spouse: ELIZABETH JOHNSON Family
Marriage: 31 MAR 1823 Hexham, Northumberland, England

1 1858 OXLEY SARAH GIVAN EVANS F 26 HERIOT AND WARRISTON EDINBURGH CITY/MIDLOTHIAN 685/07 0148

That ties in with the 1861 Census for their children

1 1857 OXLEY JOHN JOHNSTON M 32 HERIOT AND WARRISTON EDINBURGH CITY/MIDLOTHIAN 685/07 0224

That age looks like the 1 in the 1851 Census .Parents will be on it ,mothers maiden name Johnston

Isabel Haldane

Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
spouse: Duncan Wilkison

record title: Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
name: Duncan Wilkison
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 16 Dec 1770
baptism/christening place: , INVERESK WITH MUSSELBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND
birth date: 10 Dec 1770
father's name: Duncan Wilkison
mother's name: Isabel Haldane
indexing project (batch) number: C19502-1
system origin: Scotland-VR
source film number: 1067755

Would Margaret Haldane have claim poor relief ?

Ellen

If John Oxley died in Scotland then it will give his parents in his death info on Scotlandspeople

Ellen

JOHN OXLEY Pedigree
Male
Christening: 22 DEC 1825 Hexham, Northumberland, England
Father: GEORGE OXLEY Family
Mother: ELIZABETH

1851 Scotland
Name: John Oxley
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1826
Relationship: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: England
Parish Number: 685/1
Civil parish: Edinburgh Greenside
County: Midlothian
Address: Greenside Street
Occupation: Bootmaker Journeyman

GEORGE OXLEYBirth: 30 OCT 1853 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Father: JOHN OXLEY Family
Mother: SARAH COWANS

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MARGARET OXLEY Birth: 16 MAY 1855 Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Father: JOHN OXLEY Family
Mother: SARAH EVANS

1861Name: Thomas Ford
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1815
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary Ford
Gender: Male
Where born: Scotland

Civil parish: Berwick Upon Tweed
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
Town: Berwick Upon Tweed
County/Island: Northumberland
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View image

Registration district: Berwick
Sub-registration district: Berwick upon Tweed
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 114
Household Members: Name Age
Thomas Ford 46
Mary Ford 39
George Oxley 7 nephew
Margaret Oxley 5 neice

JAMES OXLEY Pedigree
Male
Christening: 04 DEC 1690 South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland
Father: JAMES OXLEY Family
Mother: JANET CAMPBELL

in the area a long time

A few other Haldanes being married in the parish ,but just George Oxley.

Ellen

There is only 1 set of Banns ,so both were in that parish.May be more info on the banns in Scotlandspeople.

Ellen

I have come across this family on familysearch.org.

Henry Oxley (c.1707) married (09/01/1732) Anne Wilkinson (c,1709)
In St. Peters, Bywell, Northumberland.

Children:
George b. 24/03/1734 (married Mary Calley 05/06/1777)
Isabel b. 30/03/1735
Henry b. 08/02/1736
Dorothy b. 25/12/1739
Philip b. 11/02/1740
Wilkinson b.26/02/1748 (married Mary Proud 1786)
Mary b. 31/01/1754
Jane b.23/04/1756

It may be that one of the above children is the father of my elusive George. It could also explain where the name Wilkinson originated, as this name is repeated throughout generations right up until the 1900s. If this is the case it would mean there were never Scottish Oxley's at all!

That's great Beverley. I must let my friend know as I think it is Mark Haldane's daughter Ann that is her direct line. That's just from memory so I will speak to her later.

I think that you will find some of those Hadane children on the 1841 census with their families. I am fairly sure that Mark is on it anyway. Remember that the 1841 is pretty well covered on Freecen.

Magaret 1806? She keeps getting older!?!

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Adam Haldane m. Elizabeth Lowden Oct 16 1772
adam born 1746, Longniddry, e.lothian.
died jan 05 1837

James 1776
Adam 1778
David 1780
Mark 1782

More About Adam Haldane:
Occupation: Shoemaker.

More About Adam Haldane and Margaret Muir:
Marriage: Abt. 1802

Children of Adam Haldane and Margaret Muir are:
Alexander Haldane, b. 1804, d. date unknown.
Margaret Haldane, b. 1806, d. date unknown.
Mark Haldane, b. 1808, d. date unknown.
George Haldane, b. 1810, d. 1872.
David Haldane, b. 1812, d. date unknown.
James Haldane, b. 1815, d. date unknown.
Helen Haldane, b. 1818, d. date unknown.

Rootgatherer strikes again! Although this time it was inadvertently haha! I couldn't access NAS ONLINE due to site refurbishment but decided in my disappointment to mosey around some links. I may have unearthed two more generations of the Haldane clan. Details are very sketchy as I have no references but I will persevere! I'm so excited that it's tragic.

Beverley, looking on the Familysearch website, it doesn't look as though Margaret herself was christened in the Church of Scotland. It might be that, although married in C of S her family may have belonged to a different church. If that were the case then I am not sure that those records would be on Scotlandspeople. It may be that the older children were never christened so there are no records of their births.

The National Archives of Scotland have these records

Reference Title Date
CH2 Records of Church of Scotland synods, presbyteries and kirk sessions 1569-2006
Country code GB
Repository code 234
Repository National Archives of Scotland
Reference CH2/307
Title Records of Prestonpans Kirk Session (Salt Preston)
Dates 1595-1981
Access status Open
Location Off site
Admin history Pre-reformation there existed an ancient chapel at Preston which was a vicarage of the Abbey of Holyrood. The chapel however was burnt down during Hertford's invasion in 1544 and was never repaired. Prestonpans parish was originally distributed into two baronies, that of Preston and of Pans, and the two, for a time after 1544, became attached to Tranent. In 1595 however the General Assembly declared Prestonpans to be a parish quoad sacra and a new church was built in 1596. The parliament of Perth, in 1606, erected the newly built church into a parish church, which was originally to be called the parish kirk of Preston. The session of Prestonpans Preston was united with the United Free Church Session of Prestonpans Grange in 1981 to form the parish of Prestonpans Prestongrange. The kirk session of Prestonpans (Preston) sat within the Presbytery of Haddington, later Haddington and Dunbar and currently of Lothian.



Reference Title Date
CH3 Records of Free, United Presbyterian (UP), United Free (UF) and Other Protestant Churches 1725-1891
Country code GB
Repository code 234
Repository National Archives of Scotland
Reference CH3/267
Title Prestonpans Free Church (later United Free and Grange Church of Scotland) merged with Preston C of S in 1981
Dates 1843-1982
Access status Open
Location Off site



You could try searching the NAS online catalogue for "East Lothian Church" and that may give you an idea of any other possible churches in the area.

Since they wed in a C of S kirk, and there were a lot less restrictions on where one could wed in Scotland, I would expect any baptisms to appear in the C of S OPRs, held by SP. Since they probably wed in Margaret's parents' parish, not necessarily where they lived, they might not be in the Prestonpans OPRs.

Success! Again, I am truly grateful for everyone's help! (especially you Rootgatherer!) I have received Wilkinson Oxley's birth certificate that confirms he is the son of George Oxley and Margaret (Haldane on the marriage cert. and Halden on Wilk's birth certificate). I found the marriage on Scotland's People. There is no web reference to the earlier children at all. I know many online records are incomplete, do you think it would be worthwhile looking at Parish records in Edinburgh? They married in Prestonpans Parish Church which is just down the road. would anyone know whether they would be held at the city library? I'm sorry to be a pain!