Bruce Laidlaw
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Bruce B. Laidlaw
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Son of William Young Laidlaw
and Mary Brebner (Robb) Laidlaw
Brother of
John Robb Laidlaw, [private sister (1940s - unknown)], Colin Alexander Laidlaw, [private brother (1950s - unknown)], [private brother (1950s - unknown)] and Rory Laidlaw
[children unknown]
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Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, September 30, 1943.
William Bruce Laidlaw's birth was registered in 1943 in the Aberdeen Southern District district.[1]
See my mother's page Mary Brebner (Robb) Laidlaw (1918-2014) for more bio.
Emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1966.
https://www.facebook.com/bruce.laidlaw.7/
Research
Under Scottish Law non-church marriages could result from
- A) mutual agreement before a witness,
- B) by a public promise followed by consummation, or
- C) by cohabitation with habit and repute.
A) and B) were abolished in 1940 and C) in 2006.
Biography
Sources
- ↑
Birth Registration:
"Statutory Register of Births"
National Records of Scotland, Ref: 168/2/740
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ (accessed 22 April 2023)
Surname: LAIDLAW; Forename: WILLIAM BRUCE; Gender: M; Year: 1943; RD Name: Aberdeen Southern District.
- First-hand information. Entered by Bruce Laidlaw at registration.
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- Bruce's formal name
- full middle name (B.)
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (2)
- private siblings' names
- spouse's name and marriage information
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bruce:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Bruce:
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Bruce Laidlaw:
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Bruce:
- Shared Photo: Four generation Photo Jan 23, 2024.
- Bruce Laidlaw is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 21, 2023.
- Bruce Laidlaw is a Wonderful WikiTreer Feb 15, 2022.
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Categories: LGBTQPlus | Migrants from Aberdeenshire to New South Wales
They're cousins of mine via the Inglis family so I've bought a bunch of pages on ScotlandsPeople for them, in case you need anything. I'm particularly a fan of William Sim's addiction to raising granite monuments to family members, especially his own wonderful monolith in the Glasgow Necropolis that lists a lot of his close relatives and gave me my 5x great grandfather's dates. :)
Kath
Ann Brown Comox, BC Canada
Best wishes... Bruce
I am doing a one-name study of the COULL surname The Farther of Coull-334 (George) was Francis Coull b c 1815 (or 1818 or 1825 depending on source). He married Eliza (Elizabeth) WHYTE 16 Juy 1865 (he had been previously married to a Mary BENZIE) he was described as a Tailor. You can look him up on https://coull.me along with Georges siblings and half siblings.
Martin Coull Now living in Paynesville, Victoria, Australia on the beautiful Gippsland Lakes. Time UTC = +10 hours
edited by Martin Coull
Kind regards, Margaret, Categorization and Australia Projects.
Doug.
edited by Doug Laidlaw
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However, could you please use a more specific source than http://scotlandspeople.gov.uk, please. That is just a link to a web site, it does not say anything about what kind of record or page number so it is just not a valid pre-1700 source. You can check the links provided by Natalie above and you could also contact Scotland Project to get some guidance regarding Scottish pre-1700 sources..
Scotlandspeople.gov.uk is a government website which has all the old Scottish parish records from 1553 to 1855. I'd have complete confidence in it as a valid pre-1700 source. However, it gives details as the result of a search. Here's an example looking for a marriage date for my ancestor who married in 1815.
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&event=M&record_type%5B0%5D=opr_marriages&church_type=Old%20Parish%20Registers&dl_cat=church&dl_rec=church-banns-marriages&surname=laidlaw&surname_so=fuzzy&forename=adam&forename_so=starts&sex=M&spouse_name=elizabeth&spouse_name_so=syn&from_year=1800&to_year=1855&county=SELKIRK&record=Church%20of%20Scotland%20%28old%20parish%20registers%29%20Roman%20Catholic%20Church%20Other%20churches
That URL is very long and clumsy for wikitree, I think, though it could be shortened using sites like http://shorturl.at
Are you saying that if I include the "FR1101", the parish number "778" and the ref "40 343" then that would be an acceptable source? As far as I can see, there's no way of searching scotlandspeople using those references.
Thanks again!
edited by Bruce Laidlaw
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Adding_Links Help adding links
and ] right after it, then it will not show the URL, just the text written after the first space after the link and before ] like this Help adding links
So you can actually add your long URL Marriage record FR1101, parish 778, ref 40 343. and it will show like that.
I do this with Swedish church books, but the text I use to tell which book is usually something along the line like "Marriage books Östad parish 1865-1882, page 17, listing no 3". The link is however close to the one you just used as an example. But that extra writing will tell someone not using the paid archive site I might be using, just where to find the info in the free Swedish National Archive, the information needed for checking that exact source is there, if they should like to look at the record themselves and verify my information. Think like this, if that link would break, how would you have described where the info could be found?
edited by Maggie Andersson
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