Notes:

Hi Bob – just in case you were thinking I had completely abandoned all Millie research……a couple of weeks ago, I used the website www.scotsorigins.com to try and track down HAM’s birth certificate. I was planning to get hers first and then work through her siblings. Remember that I had assumed that she was born in the Inverness area of Scotland for various reasons:-

An aunt of mine recalled that she came from Inverness. Her father’s name, as entered on her marriage certificate was Robert Rumgay Millie and the Rumgays are, as you know, a widespread Scottish family.
Despite being resident in Dublin at the time of her wedding, she and John Robert Scott made the effort to travel all the way back to Inverness to get married. It must have been a nightmare journey in those days. As both her parents were dead by the time of her marriage, I could only assume that she was going ‘home’ to get married for sentimental reasons.

Anyway, Scots origins charge a small amount of money and take a little time, but I was gobsmacked (as we say here in Blighty) to receive an email telling me that “There is no record of this birth in the OPRs anywhere in Scotland between 1845 and 1854.”

So why, in the name of all that’s holy, did the silly old trout go gallivanting off to bonny Scotland to tie the knot with JR? I just don’t get it. Of course, there is the possibility that she was born in Ireland, but I really hope not because that will make it virtually impossible to track down a certificate.

Meanwhile, I remembered a scrap of paper I have on which my great aunt Olive (HAM’s daughter) had scribbled “Alfred Goodbody, son of Richard Goodbody. Alfred Goodbody 1st cousin to Grandmother Millie.” The Grandmother Millie she refers to would, of course have been Elizabeth Beale. So…bearing in mind that families tended to stick together much more in days gone by, I began to search for anywhere that showed Beales and Goodbodys occurring in clusters. By some circuitous route, I managed to find the website for Abney Park Cemetery in north London. It lists 22 Beals, 62 Beales and 14 Goodbodys. Unfortunately, I haven’t got any further than that. It is all very frustrating and so annoying that we cannot come up with any concrete evidence, only shots in the dark and supposition.

Best, Clare.

Henrietta married John Robert SCOTT on 05 Aug 1886 in Inverness, Scotland. John (son of George SCOTT and Jane LEEPER) was born in 1850 in Dublin, Ireland; died about 1909. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living DESAI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]