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From: "Ella Ross" <>
Subject: Re: [MLN] LOOK UP PLEASE FOR BIRTH OF ELIZABETH SHARP
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:43:22 +1100
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Hi Pamela,
I agree with Sally...in the main I'd believe the Marriage Certificate over
the Death Certificate. We have also to take into account that people do not
always tell the truth.
Many people do not know the correct names of their grandparents particularly
if they died young. Three of my mother's grandparents died long before she
was born and she was not correct in naming them on her parents' death
certificates.

My mother in law named the people she was brought up by on her Marriage
Certificate and also erroneously stated that they were both deceased.
Apparently they didn't approve of the man she was marrying. Good judges of
character I'd say.
I've never been able to trace these people although I do believe she was
brought up by her mother's sister.
If my sister in law hadn't given me her Birth certificate I'd never have had
a clue to her real identity.

My mother in law died when my husband was a young child. When we went for
Australian Citizenship he could not give her correct name without looking at
his Birth Certificate. They must have thought we were a funny lot for when
my teenaged son was separately asked his mother's name he replied, "Mrs
Ross!"

This is what makes geneology interesting.
Mrs Ross



----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Taylor" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:38 AM
Subject: RE: [MLN] LOOK UP PLEASE FOR BIRTH OF ELIZABETH SHARP


> Pamela-
> I would believe the marriage certificate before I would believe the death
> certificate. On the marriage certificate the bride is giving her own info.
> On the death certificate- someone else is supplying the info, and that
> someone may not really know for sure and are making best guesses.
>
> If I had chased my grandmothers parents based on her death certificate
> (info
> supplied by my grandfather) I'd still be looking for her. Her father was
> James Davidson, her mother Annie Chalmers- both died long before she
> married
> but she supplied their names accurately at her marriage- but my
> grandfather
> never knew them. When my grandmother died, my grandfather gave Alexander
> Davidson and Agnes Pollack as her parents names! (Alexander was her
> brother).
>
> Either she never told my grandfather their names, or he was too grief
> stricken, muddled, or drunk even (a distinct possibility in his case- he
> liked his whiskey) to get it right- poor man.
>
> Sally
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:21 PM
> To:
> Subject: [MLN] LOOK UP PLEASE FOR BIRTH OF ELIZABETH SHARP
>
> Hello List,
> Is there some kind soul that could please look up the birth or christening
> for Elizabeth Sharp born January 17, 1826 in Stirlingshire, Scotland as I
> am
> not sure whom the correct parents are for her?
> on the marriage certificate for Elizabeth Sharp and James Paxton September
> 14, 1855 at Inveresk, Musselburgh, Scotland It says that Elizabeth
> (Betsy/Agnes) Sharp was the daughter of John Sharp and Margaret Falconer.
> But on her death certificate it says her Father was Robert Sharp and
> Mother
> Margaret Murray.
> So please could any one researching at New Register House, Edinburgh, if
> they have any time left, to please do a look up for her, as I can't go any
> further back on her or even know if she has brothers or sisters.
> one thing I do know is she named her last child a Son Robert.
> Thank you in advance for any help I might receive.
> Kind Regards
> Pamela J Groves
>
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