Re: Combine/Wilkinson family from Coldstream, County of Berwick,Scotland. any help?
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Combine/Wilkinson family from Coldstream, County of Berwick,Scotland. any help?
Sandra Bryant 2/12/11
Morning Sandra,
There are no records on Scotland's People, with a primary Last Name of COMBINE, assuming the mother, Isabella Combine, used her own Last Name for the child, your grandmother.
That is from the limited information you have given, I have not found a BIRTH with a Last Name of COMBINE.
Scotland's People is run on behalf of the Registrar General of Scotland, so is the official Keeper of all such records since Statutory Registration started in 1855.
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What names are given for your grandmother?
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There is an Isabella Wilkinson age 35 migrating to Australia in 1927, accompanied by Thomas Wilkinson aged 11 - BUT I suspect that this not your one.
I have also tried Isabella COMBINE including variants, without results.
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Theree are a few DOWELL migrants to Australia; and several more McDOwells both including variants; but without First Names etc, difficult to identify your specific ones.
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I think you need to first clarify the situation in the Australian Records, some are available on-line.
They are generally very similar to the Scottish ones for BMDs. The Shipping Arrivals Lists are also very good.
For your grandmother's Birth, check that it is a proper SCottish Birth Record etc, and also give the Names she is recorded as.
Check the spellings carefully. Scotland's People is pernickety if you use its "Exact Name" facility, it has to be the Exact Name as transcribed on to the modern computer database.
There are facilities for variants, eg Traditional Soundex, Fuzzy Matching etc; but all too frequently, these yield far too many results.
Also, who was the INFORMANT on that Birth Record, Isabella herself, her mother, her father, someone else etc?
Assuming your father was born in Australia, who are the parents listed on his Birth Record?
Alex Dow