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21-12-12, 07:42
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Margaret Forbes MMMMMMM
Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Margaret Forbes Date and place of birth unknown - Scotland? c. 1740 Names of parents unknown Date and place of baptism unknown Details of her marriage Keith Catto 31st March 1761 at St Mary’s Portsea, Hampshire Children James 10 May 1761 Portsea St Mary Alexander 11 Nov 1764 Gosport Edward 2 Feb 1766 Gosport Jane 4 Jan 1769 Gosport Thomas 20 May 1770 Gosport Betsy 1 Nov 1772 Gosport Mary 26 Dec 1773 Gosport Elizabeth 10 Mar 1776 Gosport Nancy 21 Dec 1777 Gosport Keith 13 Aug 1779 Gosport Occupation(s) - Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) times!). Portsea, Hampshire Gosport, Hampshire I have always thought from her name and her husband's name that they were a Scottish family. Date, place and cause of death April 1792, probably Gosport, no details known Date and place of burial 26th April 1792 Holy Trinity, Gosport Details of will / administration of their estate No will, but her husband left one. Memorial inscription unknown link to Jane Smith (maiden name Catto), my MMMMMM: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...ght=Jane+Smith link to her husband, Keith Catto: http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/f...ad.php?t=16385 
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23-12-12, 14:52
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Do you have the names of the marriage witnesses, Elizabeth?
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23-12-12, 17:10
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23-12-12, 17:17
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I've just checked and I have not details about the marriage of Keith and Margaret except the date and church.
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02-01-15, 17:50
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Interesting -
Name: Margaret Forbes Gender: Female Christening Date: 28 Dec 1740 Christening Place: , KIRKMICHAEL, PERTH, SCOTLAND Father's Name: Alexander Forbes Mother's Name: Christan Key Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11370-2 System Origin: Scotland-VR GS Film number: 1040121 Reference ID: 2:17T33N5 First name(s) MARGARET Last name FORBES Birth year 1738 Birth day 13 Birth month Jan Baptism year 1738 Baptism day 22 Baptism month Jan Parish St Martin In The Fields Father's first name(s) Alexander Mother's first name(s) Christian County Middlesex Page - Record set Westminster Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Is this the same couple? Are they Margaret's parents. Her second son with Keith Catto was Alexander and the name continued down the line. I'm trying to remember Scottish naming patterns...
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02-01-15, 17:59
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Elizabeth
I'm not sure if we've had this conversation before, but I have Forbes/Catto in my tree (not yours Forbes/Catto though) and the surname Catto is a shortened version of Cattenach/Cattanach. OC
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02-01-15, 18:20
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OC, I remember that so when searching in Scotland I bear it in mind. I still find Scottish research the most difficult. I went about 4/5 years ago with my now son-in-law to "Who do you think you are?" at Olympia and attended the Scotland's People talk. They promised subscriptions, which still haven't materialised. I just can't put any flesh on the bones of many of my Scottish ancestors.
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02-01-15, 22:48
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Elizabeth
I found it very easy to do the Scottish BMDs and census, but almost impossible to put any flesh on the bones, as you say. OC
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03-01-15, 07:54
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1st son=father's father 2nd son=mother's father 3rd son=father 4th and successive sons....named for brothers, favourite uncles etc 1st daughter=mother's mother 2nd daughter=father's mother 3rd daughter= mother4th and successive daughters named for aunts etc If a child died in infancy, often the same name will be reused, which can appear to throw the sequence out. For years, OH's family followed an Archibald/John pattern, with one son per generation. I was looking in quite the wrong direction before I discovered the last known Archibald was actually a second son and I should have been looking for a Peter as his grandfather Archibald was his maternal grandfather's name
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03-01-15, 08:17
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Thanks, Bev. So it looks as though Margaret's father was probably Alexander Forbes.
Interestingly there is a PCC 1707 will for an Alexander Forbes at Portsmouth and he has a son Alexander. He is in the Army. http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/51...l=ReturnRecord
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