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From: "John Bland" <>
Subject: Re: Re:[ANGUS]GLENDAY
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:01:22 +0100
References: <3F2CD6B1.8060009@which.net>


Hi Gavin

>
> 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).

I have checked and noted all Glenday's from scotlands people. Moost
occurances of the name are around Dundee, Kirriemuir,Alyth,Cortachy (&
Clova),Airlie and Glamis probably 85%. This suggests that the Glenday's did
not travel to far within Scotland itself!

> > 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.

That's a good point! Hopefully his siblings did not travel to far otherwise
the proverbial needle and haystack comes to mind!

Regards

John

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