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I havent read through all your thread.
Sometimes if a child died they named another one the same name. I came across that a couple of times.
In saying that it might just be the male line.

Marion

Helen, she was going to check the marriage cert to check the parents names again, I haven't heard back yet.

Amanda,

You say you have looked at the death certificate for Jemima Ferguson. If her parents are registered as Thomas Ferguson and Margaret McMurtrie, I can’t really see how the other person can claim her Jemima married with the same parents names mentioned on her marriage certificate.

Did you point this out … and has the other person actually seen the marriage certificate of her Jemima. This is a case where actually viewing the certificates is important to verify information.

As Elizabeth points out previously, there were two Jemima Ferguson’s born. One in 1884 (yours) and another in 1885.

There’s a mix up somewhere along this line ….

I have had a reply from the person with matches and she says Jemima was her great,great grandmother and she lived on to marry???
I'm so confused as they were both born the same year to the same parents!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Helen & Elizabeth,
I'm sure I have the correct Jemima as I viewed the death cert on SP.
I have sent the other person that I have all the matches with, so I'll wait for a reply from her. (I'm sure she must have the wrong Jemima or I have)

Thank you so much for all your help,I really appreciate it.

That's the same info i got???

Found what looks like this same family on a family tree on Ancestry.

It has Roberta Ferguson as a daughter to Jemima Ferguson who was born 7th April 1884 in Stranraer... and Jemima is down as daughter to Thomas Ferguson and Margaret McMurtrie.

Checked again on Scotlandspeople and there was only one record for a birth for Jemima Ferguson 1884 Stranraer Wigton. If you checked the death certificate and matched up the parents names etc. then you must have the correct information and Jemima definitely died.

Can't think where the other person got her birth info from

According to the tree on Ancestry, Roberta Ferguson went on to marry Samuel Dorans.

I couldn't either but everything else she has matches with mine ??????
Weird family I have got.

Can't find a marriage for Jemima Ferguson and Andrew Murray on Scotlandspeople.

However, it depends on when she married him. Marriages only go up to 1933 on Scotlandspeople.

Helen, i have 30 hot matches with someone on here and she has Jemima marrying Andrew Murray but I found her death as a baby on SP and I cannot find a marriage to this man?

This is only a guess - given that Roberta was born in Wigtown and assuming her mother was living there two years before in 1901. This Jemima was a Nurse Domestic. It may or may not mention this on Roberta's birth certificate. Jemima is a very young mother ... but not that unusual.


1901 Scotland Census
about Jemima Ferguson
Name: Jemima Ferguson
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886
Relationship: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Portpatrick, Wigtownshire
Registration Number: 891
Registration district: Leswalt
Civil parish: Leswalt
County: Wigtownshire
Address: Garchrie Lodge
Occupation: Nurse Domestic
ED: 4
Household schedule number: 14
Line: 6
Roll: CSSCT1901_442
Household Members:
Name Age
Alexr Ferguson 25
Jeanie Ferguson 27
Jessie Ferguson 4
Andrew Ferguson 3
James Ferguson 10 mos
Jemima Ferguson 15

Possible for 1891:


1891 Scotland Census
about Jemima Ferguson
Name: Jemima Ferguson
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886
Relationship: Grand Daur (Granddaughter)
Gender: Female
Where born: Port Patrick, Wigtownshire
Registration Number: 899
Registration district: Stranraer
Civil parish: Stranraer
Town: Stranraer
County: Wigtownshire
Address: 15 Castle St
ED: 5
Household schedule number: 99
Line: 18
Roll: CSSCT1891_408
Household Members:
Name Age
Andrew Ferguson 57
Catherine Ferguson 47 (ms Mitchell)
Janet Ferguson 23
Elizabeth Ferguson 18
Andrew Ferguson 16
Charles Ferguson 14
John Ferguson 11
Waller Jacob Ferguson 7
Jemima Ferguson 5
Geprge Ferguson 3

Scotlandspeople:

Birth
Jemima Ferguson
1885
County: Wigtown
District: Port Patrick (according to the census info)

Helen,
Thank you, I've found Jemimas death 18th April 1885, I also found a Roberta Ferguson born 18-12-1903, mother Jemima Ferguson. Roberta was Illigitimate, how can I find this Jemimas birth and parents?

Could this be the death for Margaret ? Maybe you recognise this area as part of your family research.

Margaret Ferguson / McMurtrie (x-ref names)
1917
County: Dumfries
District: Sanquhar

This person's age ties in with the year Margaret says she was born.

Amanda,

I checked again for the death and it's there.

Jemima Ferguson
1885
County: Wigtown
District: Stranraer

Enter the surname first ... followed by the christian name. An easily made mistake.

I have been on SP and I put in all Jemimas details to look up a death but none come up???

Helen, thank you again

Had a look on the Scotlandspeople index:

Birth
Jemima Ferguson
1884
Stranraer, Wigton

Death
Jemima Ferguson
1885
Stranraer, Wigton

Don't know if this is your Jemima. You would need to check the certificates to verify the parents names.

You can see some old pictures of Watt St, Kinning Park on:

www.mitchelllibrary.org

This is a bit of a cheek but, can you find Jemima Ferguson born c1884 please? she is another daughter? All of the children you have named on here are the names I had apart from Jemima.

Helen and Liz,
Thank you very,very much for all your help, I really appreciate all you have done for me.

1881 Scotland Census
about Thomas Fergueson
Name: Thomas Fergueson
Age: 31
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1850
Relationship: Head
Spouse's name : Margaret
Gender: Male
Where born: Inch, Wigtownshire
Registration Number: 899
Registration district: Stranraer
Civil parish: Stranraer
County: Wigtownshire
Address: 23 Saint John St
Occupation: Steam Crane Driver
ED: 4
Household schedule number: 144
Line: 8
Roll: cssct1881_335
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Fergueson 31
Margaret Fergueson 28
Helen Fergueson 10
Mary Fergueson 8
Margaret Fergueson 5
Thomas Fergueson 2
Sarah L Fergueson 11 Mo



Liz