Genealogy

[pling]

For the first time in ages (over a year! :o ) I have been doing some more genealogical research - back to looking at Stewarts (my father's father's father's people). Most of what I've spent the last couple of afternoons/evenings doing is re-familiarising myself with what I'd done before, and double-checking some dead-ends. And this LJ entry is

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[graphxgrrl]

The hunting can definitely be interesting. I need to pick up chasing down my Glasgow Milnes again--my large breakthrough a few years ago had been discovering (because of the census) that someone we'd thought had been born in Scotland had actually been born in Ireland. Which explained why we'd not been able to find anything for his birth records when hunting for them.

[pling]

Amusing coincidence: I just copied all the details of the parents of Helen Candy's marriage into my database & noticed on the same sheet there are two Milne marriages - which made me think of you, then you commented :) Dunno if you have any connection to the parish of Glenbervie, Kincardine in 1831 in your tree - but I'm guessing it's just one of those names (like Stewart, of which there's one on the same page, not one of mine).

[graphxgrrl]

That's back a few decades earlier than I know off the top of my head, but it doesn't sound familiar. Certainly as I often tell people if they ask after my relationship to A.A. Milne, "Everyone's named Milne if you're in the right part of Scotland."

[bopeepsheep]

And not all Milnes are Scottish (and I don't just mean 'not for a few generations, anyway'). Milnrow (formerly in Lancashire, now Greater Manchester) accounts for a fair few.