Sweet Caroline. I've removed my E mail address, though I'm not that worried about it being public. It's one of the "disposable" ones, that I dump, if the spam gets to much. Anyway, did you get my personal message about the apparent similarity between the nearly illegible name of the family...

Sweet Caroline. Yes, you are right, I have a scan of the 1861 census, for Elizabeth Dean, lodging with the Gardiner family. Aged 69 born Ardrossan. I also think you're right in saying that she was probably in the CC Poor House at the time of the 1871 census. Were the people in the Poor House not cou...

Sweet Caroline. I've often wondered the same thing. How did Hugh Lockart, the CC Poor House governor, know her parent's names, but not her husbands. She had been a widow a long long time, I'm pretty sure he died in Stevenston in 1843, (though Scotland's people have it indexed as 1842). I thought tha...

Sweet Caroline The Elizabeth Deans, (ms Wyllie NOT Murphy) who died in the Cunningham Combination Poorhouse is 1873, is listed as having been 73 years old, giving a birth date of around 1800. Now I know this doesn't quite tie in with her getting married in 1811 to James Dean, but no member of her fa...

Londonscot and Sweet Caroline. Yes James Dean born 1812, married Marion Banks, and appears on the Landsborough list for 1836 (I think that year, need to check), was the brother of my gr gr grandfather Robert Dean(s). The family acquired an "s" at the end of the name mid 19th century. Paren...

Sweet Caroline.
Darned if I can find either, Kilbirnie Park, Shadehill Crescent or Kilbirnie Rd on the google map of Kilbirnie.

Perhaps I should get a better map....

Sweet Caroline Aye, that's my gr gr granfather Robert Dean, marrying Eliza Hood, (born Newtonstewart, Co Tyrone) , on the 21st (could be 27th when you look at the actual parish record), May 1851. I guess this marriage would have taken place at the kirk in Kilbirnie? Does it still exist? He appears a...

Thanks to all who responded. I guess Stonebridge and Stonybridge are pretty close. The document certainly seems to say Stonybride, there's definitely a "y" on the end. The middle bit is a bit vague, and it defintely starts with an "S". I notice a place called Stonyholme on a 19th...

One of my ancestors was married in Stonybridge, Kilbirnie, 1851. Does any one know where this place was?
I have not been able to locate it on any modern map. I've even looked at some old mid 19th century maps.
No luck.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Andy Deans

SweetCaroline. Thanks for your response, but it's a wee bit confusing. Do you mean James Dean was born at Kirktoun south of Fenwick? If so where did you get the information from? The Scottish church records have no one called James Dean (or Deans - since the 2 names are pretty interchangeable) born ...

SweetCaroline. Thanks for your response, but it's a wee bit confusing. Do you mean James Dean was born at Kirktoun south of Fenwick? If so where did you get the information from? The Scottish church records have no one called James Dean (or Deans - since the 2 names are pretty interchangeable) born ...

My gr gr gr Grandfather James Dean and his wife Elisabeth Wyllie lived in Stevenston in the period 1820s to 1840s. They appear in the 1841 census in Townhead, Stevenston. Several of the many children they had, lived/died in Stevenston, right up to the 1860s/70s. I believe James died in Stevenston in...