Q&A
KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset
CHRIS PATON is a genealogist, author and blogger at scottishgenes. blogspot.com
JAYNE SHRIMPTON is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist
ALAN STEWART is a family history writer, and author of Grow Your Own Family Tree
RUTH SYMES is the author of Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters & Personal Writings
PHIL TOMASELLI is a military family history expert, and wrote Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors
PETER TOWEY is vice-president of the Anglo-German Family History Society
Can you shed any light on my Scottish great great grandparents?
‘Asylum records may offer clues to James’ background’
Q My great great grandparents James Begg and Agnes Munroe were both born in Scotland, according to the 1841–1881 censuses. They don’t say where, so I can’t find their birth records. James (born 1807) was a tailor. He lived at 13 Turner Square, Shoreditch, London, where he died in 1875. He married Agnes on 22 May 1832 at St John’s, Wapping, London. Agnes died on 25 September 1885 at the Shoreditch Infirmary. Can you tell me any more about James and Agnes, including where they came from?
Joan Ames
A This is a tricky one, because James and Agnes moved to England and married prior to the advent of civil registration.
I have managed to determine a little more about the couple in an undated application record for.
