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Cynthia
I have just got round to watching Heir Hunters and came on here to put the exact same thing you have posted.

Have we looked at adoption and name change ?

Don´t know whether anyone has noticed, but a certain site whose name can´t be mentioned, but begins with A is advertising free access to global immigration records starting in 3 days time.

A new week........


Don't know if any of you saw the Heir Hunters this morning ????

Mention was made of a 'special register' held by the GRO where children who were foundlings were given a different name.


I couldn't help but think of Diane and our search for her so I have sent an email to the GRO and asked for advice.

Will let you know if I hear anything. :-D

Hi Sue, it does seem as though her father wasn't quite what she said he was but any military help is welcome.

Quoy.........Argentina??? arrrrgggghhhhh.......we'll have circumnavigated the globe before we're finished! :-S


Chris - I think anyone named Patricia who has a vague connection is worth checking out because it looks as though Diane named our Evelyn after various folk.



Definitely frustrating..............head/brickwall/head/brickwall..... :-D

Could this be the Bombay link or is it just coincidence?

1891 RG12/419/100/19
St Mary Lambeth, Norwood.
60 year old Indian man east India merchant b Bombay.........can´t read his name.
Living with various relatives, all born Bombay.
Cook Maggie Macleod b Stornoway aged 26
Servant Margaret Macleod 16 b Stornoway.
Can´t find them on any other censuses, but the name is indecipherable.
Maybe the story about being born in Bombay was another fiction with a grain of truth?

Lol Cynthia, fancy that, re the newspaper...

Ooh dear, sooo very frustrating all this...

Chris :)

(was just wondering out of nosiness lol, that Patricia E M Whitby, wife of George Digby Goddard Fenwick, they married 1936 Kensington (his 2nd wife)

Chris :)

I wonder if these people have anything to do with Diana
UK incoming passenger list

Dora Leslie Macleod
BIRTH:
abt 1881
DEPARTURE:
La Plata, Argentina
ARRIVAL:
4 May 1939 - London, England
OTHER:
La Plata
It say's single ,occupation ,student

then I find her at 47b Harrington gardens Kensington and Chelsea from 1946-1949

they are the only references to her I can find could she be the mother of Diane ? or am I getting to far ahead

Thanks Cynthia

I did not realise that it had already been done...so is everyone in agreeing that her father was not who she said.

I don't seem to be of much help...will still keep digging you never know what will come up.

Hubby is reading up on the 1st battalion.

suex :-) <3

Hi Sue,

It may be worthwhile taking a look through the following from earlier in the thread:



MacLEOD : On her marriage certificate (1929 in London), she states her
father to be Major Robert MacLeod of the 1st Seaforth Highlanders, Deceased. Nothing of him can be confirmed despite extensive military searches being made. These can be found on ps 2-4 and 14-15 – 29 and 36 of this thread.


Hope this helps.

Thanks for the pms Evelyn & you too Cynthia for posting.
Obviously the marriage cert will have been done to death, but there´s always the outside chance that someone will spot something......wishful thinking or what.
I don´t know much about military history but I would have thought if he was as high up as a major, there would be some record of him somewhere, even accounting for fires & other disasters, so I can´t help feeling his rank was a bit of a fairy tale(as do many other people it would seem),as was Diane´s name????Can´t find any Minnie Mouses registered around the right time either. ;-)
Or should that be Minnie Mice?

I should have said Major 1st Seaforth Highlanders ( probably a flight of fantasy)

On mothers marriage cert. it says her father was Robert Macleod 1st Seaforth Highlanders (deceased)
I was told at Edinburgh register office that children born to service men serving abroad in those days did not HAVE to be registered, the choice was theirs to make.

I Am going to try and tackle this from another avenue ,My Oh is a war buff and he is going to look where the Seaforth Highlanders were in 1906 +or _1 yr
He has loads of books and movies on the war so you never know.

Evelyn do you know what Battalion he was in as there are 10 that we have found and we have found mention that the 3rd battalion was stationed at Fort George but that is not saying some of the others were not there as well.

If you knew for sure what Battalion he was in it would be a great help

MY Mother was bn in Maymyo Burrma because her Father also in the Forces was stationed there in 1932.
He was a Lance Sergent with the Oxford shire and Buckingham shire Light Infantry.

I am looking at my Mothers English Birth Cert now so I can't see why your Mother does not have an English one too.

Maybe if we can find him we find Diane so to speak :-D

suex :-D

edite

Do we have this posted on the thread yet..possibly before he joined up...... all fishing that I have read about this area of Stornaway.

1901 Scotland Census
about Robert Macleod Name: Robert Macleod
Age: 17
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1884
Relationship: Son
Father's Name: John Macleod
Mother's Name: Maggie Macleod
Gender: Male
Where born: Lochs, ross-shire
Registration Number: 88
Registration district: Stornoway
Civil parish: Stornoway
County: Ross and Cromarty
Address: 48, Keith St
Occupation: Fishermans Clerk
ED: 5
Household schedule number: 80
Line: 5
Roll: CSSCT1901_24
Household Members: Name Age
John Macleod 33
Maggie Macleod 53
Robert Macleod 17
Maggie Macleod 11
Murdo Mckenzie 24

Good Morning All
I have often wondered why parents do such silly things to their children but I was christened Evelyn Patricia Kathleen but have always been known as Pat. I was wondering if perhaps Aunt Kate was the same.
It still puzzles me why Diane never mentioned her mother, maybe she died in childbirth.
Once again I thank you all for your input
Evelyn

Hi Sue, yes, I mentioned just after Chris's post that we have had a lot of contact with the Stornoway Historical Society and that Willie Foulgar has been really helpful in doing searches for us. There's just nothing we can get to grips with there at the moment :-(


Chris? You would NOT believe it but, when I looked at the link for the Glasgow newspaper, something else caught my eye and I had to look twice. There, in the births, is the announcement of a baby born in our local maternity hospital and I know the child and it's family!! The mother is Scottish and had obviously put notices in the Scottish newspaper. Small world eh?? :-D


I'm still wondering about the Patricia above but am rubbish at linking things together - takes me forever and a day! Parish records I am ace with - and that's my limit!!

If anyone would like to rootle away at women named Patricia who may be connected - please do. I've just got a feeling that Diane named our Evelyn after people to whom she was connected in some way. :-)

http://www.stornowayhistoricalsociety.org.uk/


I have been looking through the various pages of this site that Chris Ho posted on the previous page it looks very good and may hold something .

There are loads of Macleods but I am so confused with all the people on the thread of Evelyn's that I don't know what names would be important.

Has anyone else had a look that is more informed on the subject.

suex :-)

Bed? No stamina - that's the problem!


Thank you kindly all the same............go>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Can I go back to bed now please "Old Baggage"Mrs C???

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

1 1949 BURNETT CATHERINE NICOLL DUCAT F 104 FORFAR /ANGUS 288/0A 0017
2 1949 DUCAT CATHERINE BURNETT NICOLL F 104 FORFAR /ANGUS 288/0A 0017
4 1949 NICOLL CATHERINE BURNETT DUCAT F 104 FORFAR /ANGUS

Died as widow of James Nicoll...(They married in 1866 Catherine Ducat ,Burnett was her mothers maiden name)
1911 checked also...


3 1945 DUNCANSON CATHERINE F 101 BURNTISLAND /FIFE 411/00 0010

Died a spinster...
Reg by John Duncanson(Grand nephew)


Thats it for over 100 that I can find under likely "Aunt Kate"deaths.....

I am going to Somerset at the end of the month and will go to Dorchester to go through the papers there and try find the name of this woman and where she died.

I feel its the only way to go forward now as we have covered most things and I looked at/viewed all deaths of ...Kate/Cath etc over 100 years of age on SP all over Scotland and nothing adds up on a follow up on 1911 census of Scotland and England and Wales.

Really need that article from the Dorset Evening Echo ...1945 through to 1951 but prob around 1948 as Ev says she was about 15 when Diane mentioned it...

Feel like rubbish today....Back to bed soon for me.

Fan~~~~~~