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Thanks Jaqueline. I thought I replied but my message seems to have disappeared! I think I must be mixing different people up and I will have to take a step back from it all. When this marriage happened (12? Oct 1879) my g-grandmother was (I believe) a month short of 11 - not 32 as shown on the marriage record. I seem to have a mixture of Ann Vickers ms Sneddon and Ann Sneddon ms Vickers and a couple of different fathers - Archibald and Alexander Vickers. I might look to see if I have a generation missing!

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Alex

Alex

Not sure if you have the correct Ann dob 1868 as if the one who married John Sneddon is the correct one then she would have only been 11 in 1879 . Have checked the second marriage and the address given for both Ann and new hubby is the one where her first husband died. I think that there is an error with mothers maiden name though as they have Sneddon noted and first marriage notes Flockhart.

Jackie

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death 23 Mar 1883 in Cockpen hard to read but could be Durham? Bank Cottages

John Sneddon engineer
married to Ann Vickers
parents noted and Richard Sneddon colliery manager dec and Janet Sneddon m/s Robertson dec

death was registered by Ann

marriage
5 Oct 1879

John Sneddon age 38 residing Cockpen parents Richard Sneddon colliery manager dec and Janet Sneddon m/s Robertson

Ann Vickers 32 residing Cockpen parents Alexander Vickers coal miner and Ann Vickers m/s Flockhart dec

this could be John's death

4 1883 SNEDDON JOHN M 44 COCKPEN /MIDLOTHIAN 676/00 0015 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER

Alex

marriage?

3 1879 SNEDDON JOHN VICKERS ANN COCKPEN /MIDLOTHIAN 676/00 0016 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER

Jackie

I seem to be perpetually confused and would be very grateful if one of you with obviously much more experience than I could suggest how I might resolve this:

I have found some inconsistency in the official documents I pulled from Scotland's People in regard to my Great Grandmother, Ann Kerr (14 Nov 1868 to 24 Jul 1943). It seems that the name Vickers had great significance to her and to her husband Thomas Kerr (16 Feb 1865 to 24 Dec 1929) because after naming their first child John (presumably after Thomas’s father John Kerr – 12 Jan 1830 to 7 Sep 1879) they named their other three children Alexander Vickers Kerr, Vickers Kerr and Annie Vickers Kerr. The relevant information from the official documents is as follows:

Birth - Registered as Ann Vickers, Illegitimate, mother Ann Vickers, born 14 Nov 1868 in Cockpen, Midlothian.

Marriage - Shows that Thomas Kerr, Bachelor aged 24 and Annie Sneddon, Widow aged 20, were married on 15 Mar 1889 in the Cockpen Manse, Midlothian. Ann’s parents are listed as Archibald Vickers, Coal Miner – deceased and Ann Vickers m.s. Sneddon – deceased. No mention of Ann having been born Vickers. (I have also not found this Sneddon/Vickers marriage between 1870 and 1888).

Death - Death registered as Ann Kerr at 74 years, widow of Thomas Kerr, coal miner on 24 Jul 1943 at Burnbank, Hamilton. Shows that she was born Ann Vickers but afterwards married to John Sneddon, an engineer – deceased.

John Kerr Birth - Born 12 Jun 1889 in Cockpen, Midlothian. Mother shown as Annie Kerr, formally Sneddon m.s. Vickers.

Alexander Vickers Kerr Birth - Born 24 Nov 1890 in Lasswade, Midlothian. Mother shown as Ann Kerr, m.s. Vickers.

Vickers Kerr Birth - Born 29 Dec 1895 in Cockpen, Midlothian. Mother Annie Kerr m.s. Vickers.

Annie Vickers Kerr Birth - Born 29 Oct 1899 in Cockpen, Midlothian. Mother Annie Kerr m.s. Vickers.


Alex