Comments on: The Will of James Findlay https://geneageek.com/the-will-of-james-findlay/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Fri, 19 Nov 2021 09:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: geneageek https://geneageek.com/the-will-of-james-findlay/#comment-3078 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:25:12 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1466#comment-3078 In reply to Donald MacLellan Findlay.

Thank you for commenting. This was interesting especially because William was the only child I couldn’t locate in the 1891 census.

Unfortunately, they’re not the same William. My William was born in 1872 which means it’s unlikely he was around to travel in the 1980s/90s. 🙂 But that doesn’t completely rule out a family link!

I’ve had a look with the info you’ve given here and think I may have found William’s parents. If you email me at geneageek@gmail.com, I’d be happy to share what I’ve found.

]]> By: Donald MacLellan Findlay https://geneageek.com/the-will-of-james-findlay/#comment-3076 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:42:11 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1466#comment-3076 Donald mentioned that his dad William, he thought, came from a family of fisherman and sea captains. William was in the Royal Navy in World War I in mindsweepers and after his tour moved to Glascow where he apprenticed as a tool and dye maker then took a transsteamer to Nova Scotia. Didn’t seem to have a middle name.

]]> By: Donald MacLellan Findlay https://geneageek.com/the-will-of-james-findlay/#comment-3074 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 23:33:57 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1466#comment-3074 My father came from Cullen, Scotland around end of 1920’s first of 1930’s to Nova Scotia, married a woman in Nova Scotia, then was around Canada, eventually settling in KawKawlin, Michigan, US, with his wife and 3 children. This seems to be a coincidence – Don cannot remember who Williams parents were as he didn’t talk about his past – but William did go back to Cullen with his daughter Melda, and Grandson, Gregory, sometime in the late 1980’s early 1990’s and had a heart attach on the river bank in Cullen, ended up in the local hospital – he understood gaelic which the nurses were speaking and started to talk to them – they recognized his name and family really surprised.

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