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Subject: Glasgow Mc Goughs became Goughs - c.1920 help!
Date: 14 Oct 2006 22:03:21 -0600


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Surnames: GOUGH, MC GOUGH, LAIRD
Classification: Query

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Hello, (15 Oct 2006)

I am seeking more info - especially why my GLASGOW paternal family line dropped the MC.... from Mc Gough c.1920!? -
and family history going back pre 1880s.

I have inherited the following limited info and seek more! - any advice really appreciated.

I (Julie Gough b.1965, Australia) come from a FRANCIS MC GOUGH who married ANN MORTIMER (when/where?) and their child JOHN MC GOUGH (1846 - 1885) married a HELEN HILL (1848-1920 - parents William Hill and Helen Mc Fadyeh b/d?) (where married on 1 Dec 1875 ?). I would like to track these families back further in time also - any ideas/clues?

JOHN MC GOUGH and HELEN had 7 children: Nellie, Peter, John, William, Annie, David and Mary.
My great grandfather is #6 child above, David Storrar MC GOUGH (1885-1957) who married on 29 Dec 1905 ESTHER COPE (1885 - 1960) - and the MC was dropped sometime in my great grandfather's lifetime. He was a newspaper publisher, lay dentist and was somehow (apparently) involved in both protestant and catholic activities in GLASGOW, he held high status (wish to confirm ) in MASONIC LODGE/S . I would like to know more about this man.

DAVID STORRAR (mc) GOUGH had 5 (known) children - 5 boys: Charles, Martyn, Albert, Jack, and David (my Grandfather) - all are now deceased - between 1966 and 1993. They were all born in Glasgow.

My grandfather DAVID SMITH GOUGH (1908 - 1993) married Ann Laird (1909 - 1997) in 1929 at Gretna Green, Scotland. They migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1948.

I don't know much about my grandmother's family - yet. One much loved brother died in the (which?) mines, and there are/were family at Perth Scotland, Stirling, Fife, Milton of Balgonie - any more information/contacts would be greatly appreciated.

Julie Gough (b.1965)
Townsville, Australia







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