#OTD 14 April 1824, Helen Mitchell was born to Peter Mitchell and Ann Taylor in Fife, Scotland.

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#OTD 14 April 1824, Helen Mitchell was born to Peter Mitchell and Ann Taylor in Fife, Scotland. There was a start of a christening record in Kinghorn, as if the minister thought the christening would be in that church. The details are not filled in. Instead, Helen appears in a later list in Abbotshall parish (Kirkcaldy) with her three siblings, including my great-great-grandmother. Helen died just weeks before the 1841 census, as revealed in a cryptic notation in the parish records: Petter Mitchels Daughter in the South grave of John Taylers property 6 foot dep.
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[bethroots@mindly.social]

@LJClements8 To the best of my knowledge Scotland didn't have civil records until 1855. It's sad, as the church records for deaths are incomplete and vague.