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Philippa, if you spend £7.00 on 30 credits for Scotlandspeople that should be enough to get you 5 certificates. You use 1 credit to view search results and 5 to view / download the register entry.

death for Janet to possibly match the birth posted

Name: Janet F Scott
Birth Date: abt 1870
Date of Registration: Mar 1952
Age at Death: 82
Registration district: Newcastle upon Tyne
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1b
Page: 171

Thanks for all your help. This certainly looks like them. The probate is definitely him. I don't have the marriage certificate, only the birth certificate for their son, which gives the marriage details. Trying to limit the number of certificates I order, as it works out expensive but I might have to splash out on a few more!

Name: Jessie Fisher Whitfield
Birth Date: 13 Jul 1905
Date of Registration: Aug 1984
Age at Death: 79
Registration district: Bournemouth
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 23
Page: 46


As the family don't appear on the 1911 English census, have you looked for them on the 1911 Scottish census please? 1911 Scottish census available from Scotlandspeople.

There is a probate record for him, not sure if you have this?





England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966


Name:Henry Sheldon Scott of: 19 Chester Road

Probate Date:23 Sep 1954

Death Date:9 Jul 1954

Death Place:Cheshire, England

Registry:London, England


Probate to: Jessie Fisher Whitfield (married woman) £408 8s 10d

Janet's birth?

Name: Janet Hogg
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 30 Jan 1870
Birth Place: Prestonkirk,East Lothian,Scotland
Father: Thomas Hogg
Mother: Janet Fisher
FHL Film Number: 6035516

deleted ... 1881 census, same as Gins posted above

Name: Henry Sheldon Scott
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1873
Birth Place: Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland
Father: Alexander Scott
Mother: Mary Shepherd
FHL Film Number: 6035516

1881 Scotland Census


Name:Henry Scott

Age:7

Estimated Birth Year:abt 1874

Relationship:Son

Father's Name:
Alexander Scott

Mother's name:
Mary S Scott

Gender:Male

Where born:Edinburgh

Registration Number:685/5

Registration district:Newington

Civil Parish:Edinburgh St Cuthberts

County:Midlothian

Address:14 Sciennes

Occupation:Scholar

ED:93

Household schedule number:49
LINE:25

Roll:cssct1881_293

Household Members:

Alexander Scott 45
Mary S Scott 42
Charles Scott 16
George Scott 15
Mary Ann Scott 9
Henry Scott 7
Grace J Scott 4
Sophia Scott 3
Scott 1 Mo

hello Philippa, do you have Jane's age from her marriage certificate?

I wonder whether they might have gone on mission abroad with the church after marrying?


edit, Gins has the source whence he sprang, now just to find him in later life :-)

This looks likely



Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950

Name:Henry Sheldon Scott

Gender:Male

Birth Date:19 Sep 1873

Birth Place:
Edinburgh,Midlothian,Scotland

Father:
Alexander Scott

Mother:
Mary Shepherd

FHL Film Number:6035516

If he married in Scotland, his marriage certificate will name his parents.

I am having trouble finding any information on Henry Sheldon Scott prior to his marriage (to Janet Fisher Hogg at Prestonpans, Scotland in 1899) or for the early 1900s. I found two Henry S Scotts in the 1901 census, but neither are married to the right wife! He would have been born around 1873 or 74 (he died July 1954 aged 80). I don't have much information on his early life, but by 1899 he was a nonconformist minister of religion. Any ideas for tracking him down?