What a cracking time I'm having, in a genealogical sense! More people reading this blog and taking the trouble to email me .... most chuffed with that.
And, best of all, I've just found my great-great-great-great (that's four greats) grandmother!!!! To be fair, I've known for a while that her name was Bridget and that she was born in Leith (according to the census and they're never wrong, are they??). But, as I've probably said, the chances of my finding her without a surname were somewhere between "slim" and "fat".
Until today that is.
I have been searching on the Family Search beta site (see https://beta.familysearch.org/) and there she was ..... Bridget Turnbull, wife of Thomas Brown and mother of Walter Brown, Thomas Turnbull Brown et al. Bless them for giving Thomas, their eldest (and new to me) his mother's maiden name as a middle name - it's something I would always encourage as it makes it sooooo much easier to link children to the right family that way!!
One of my faithful followers will shortly read this and smile (I hope) in recognition of a conversation we had over lunch this very day on just this subject.
Right, I'm still bouncing with joy and I'm going off to do some more searching while my luck is in.
More soon.
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