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BurgessRae -

In your opening post you said,
"I have records confirming that he married Margaret Mitchell in Falkirk Stirling Scotland in 1594."

Where did you find that, please?

Or do you just mean that's what is claimed on all those Ancestry trees?

It is so annoying when a mistake is copied by so many others especially when you can prove the error. You can also never trace who first made that mistake.

Many people won’t accept they were ever wrong. I once had problems persuading someone that they had the wrong death for my grandfather, who died relatively young.
Eventually they accepted it when I explained my mother was still alive and she definately knew when she lost her own father. I’ve also had people claim something to be true because Ancestry said so :-|

Thanks everyone for your help - Its good to confirm those same records that match my own - its always frustrating when there are details that appear in hundreds of trees, but no source for any of them. Thanks for trying.

Also an Edmund, twin to David?

First name(s) Edmund
Mother's last name Mitchell
Last name Callender
Archive reference OPR 479/2
Baptism year 1613
Register year range 1611-1686
Baptism date 15 Mar 1613
Item 2
Place Falkirk
Page 9
County Stirlingshire
Record set Scotland, Parish Births & Baptisms 1564-1929
Country Scotland
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Father's first name(s) James
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Father's last name Callender
Collections from Great Britain, Scotland
Mother's first name(s) Margaret

Some of the Ancestry trees claim this is his death - without proof.

IF this man is related AT ALL, he's more likely to be the son James born 1605.

Callander or Callendar, James
in the UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
Name Callander or Callendar, James
Dates 12 Jan 1677
Place Easter Auchengean Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland
Book Mort Roll from 1781 in the Register House, Edinburgh. (Death)
Collection Lanarkshire, Stirling, and Clackmannan: Commissariot Record of Lanark, Register of Testaments, 1595-1800 and Commissariot Record of Stirling, 1607-1800
Volume The Commissariot Record of Stirling. Register of Testaments, 1607-1800.
Chapter "Pro re ecclesiastica."
Text Callander or Callendar, James, in Easter Auchengean, par. of Falkirk 12 Jan 1677


The document can be viewed on Scotlands People, with credits.

There's no death/burial record - only the probate.

Can't see his death, marriage, or birth , though a tree on FindMyPast has guessed at birth in 1572 - also trees on Ancestry.

Trees state marriage on 1 May 1594 - very specific, but no proof offered, and I can't find the marriage on any date.
Where did you find the marriage record?

James is in 765 trees on Ancestry!

Births of children, in Falkirk :


Name Elizabeth Callender
Sex Female
Birth Date 2
Father's Name James Callender
Father's Sex Male
Mother's Name Margaret Michell
Mother's Sex Female
Event Type Christening
Event Date 18 Feb 1600
Event Place Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Event Place (Original) Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland

Also Jene in 1595, John in 1602, James in 1605, William in 1608, David in 1613

Have you found his burial record, this may have given his age at death, meaning one can estimate his birth year.

Your post seemed to imply that someone has helped you in the past................reading again, the wording is a touch misleading

BTW, sorry, if you can't find a birth, you can't say where he was born............or when.

If you've found online trees which include the man, get in touch with the tree 'owners'

Thanks for your interest - I haven't seen any other threads about this man - are you able to point me in the right direction? That would be awesome - thanks

Presumably, you have another thread about this man. Better to add to it rather than start a new one

Thanks for your help with finding a source for the birth of my ancestor James Callender. I have records confirming that he married Margaret Mitchell in Falkirk Stirling Scotland in 1594. Lots of online trees put his birth at 1572 but I can’t for the life of me find any sources to confirm this information. Thanks in advance for your help.