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From: Gavin Bell <>
Subject: Re:[ANGUS]GLENDAY
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 10:32:33 +0100


John wrote:

> ...
> I am descended from a stray namely George Glenday who was born in 1771
> and baptised in Glamis on 25 July 1771 father John Glendy of
> Arniefoul...
> ...
> No mother's name is recorded; is this because Scottish Records of the
> time don't.

Apart from a vague notion that they should be recorded, there was no
effective national standard for baptisms and marriages. In earlier
times, many parishes did record only the father's name, and Glamis
appears to have persisted with this unhelpful practice until 1819.

> If not is there a marriage for John?

Where have you looked? All pre-1855 Registers of the Kirk of Scotland
have been indexed and are online both at scotlandspeople and on the IGI,
so it should be a simple job to check for all occurrences of his name
(in as many spelling variants as you feel like trying).

> ...
> George was a Corn miller and baker in Sleaford but it is not known
> whether he brought these skill with him. Is there a history of Corn
> Milling in Glamis?

I don't know how much wheat was grown in Glamis at that date, but there
would certainly have been one or more mills, and the miller would be
happy (for the usual charges) to grind anything you brought to him,
oats, pease, barley or wheat.

If George was a miller, that would easily account for a peripatetic
lifestyle. Once you had completed your apprenticeship, the career
choices were simple: stick around and wait for the current miller to
fall off his perch, or move to some other parish or county, wherever
there was a vacancy. Also, milling (and the itinerant lifestyle that
went with it) tended to run in families, so John may have been born
and/or married elsewhere.

It might also be worth looking for the deaths of any of George's
siblings. If they survived until 1855 (and the youngest would only have
been 70), then the entry in the Register of Death should show the names
of both parents of the deceased.



Gavin Bell



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