Liverpool & South West Lancashire FHS - Forum

Good day. My name is Monica. I am South African. I am stuck with my Lindsay tree. I have a Andrew Lindsay who must have immigrated to South Africa from UK, Scotland or somewhere. Maybe as a young adult or as a child. He was born in 1860. This I saw on his marraige cert. I cannot find his death cert, but I did manage to find approx year of death. On his daughters' baptism cert. He died 1893/4 in Knysna South Africa. He married Isabella Kynoch in South Africa. He was a labourer and later on a groom. Any thing sounds fimiliar to you guys out there? Monica

Hi Monica and welcome,

Do you have anymore information from the marriage cert, fathers name and occupation, etc.?
Children's names and birth dates?

Registered births 1859/61, England & Wales.

Andrew Lindsay, Reg, Alnwick
Andrew Crowcart Lindsay, Reg, Hackney.

It appears both of the above were still in England, 1911 and later.

There were 8 registered births in Scotland, 1859/61.

You will need to register with Scotlands People to view.

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

I see you have done as I suggested on your other message and posted separately. Do you have any links for the family to Liverpool?

Looking at the children's baptisms (there are 5 of them on Familysearch), the surname in every single one is Lindsey, not Lindsay.

There is a Transvaal estate record for Andrew Lindsay in 1894, ref O/9138 .

Yes, this was a spelling mistake. The same guy spelled it wrong. Ons their marraige sert aswell, andrew himself spelled it " SAY".

There were/are lots of Lindsays in Ireland. The 1901 census shows approx. 1600; half of them in Counties Antrim and Down. Unfortunately birth registration only became compulsory in Ireland in 1864.