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Gilbert death certificae can be found and downloaded on FamilySearch,


Name Events Relationships
Christina Melvin
Principal
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927
Death 23 August 1923
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Birth 1869
Scotland
Parents Father-- Donald Wood ,,this was her brother,?,,,,


Spouses Augustus W
again the full death copy cert can be downloaded,

Thank you everyone for all the information, I really appreciate it. Argyllgran - I think the information re Christina's marriage is perhaps the wrong person. My Christina has the second name of McLean (not Wilson). Also my Christina's parents were not James and Jane but Francis and Mary Love. Thank you anyway - I have a lot to work on.

Linda
You appear NOT to have noticed this among AG's posts

Christina Wood
in the Massachusetts, U.S., Marriage Records, 1840-1915
Name Christina Wood
Age 21
Birth Year abt 1870
Birth Place Scotland
Marriage Date 24 Dec 1891
Marriage Place Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Father Frank C Wood <<<<<
Mother Mary E Wood <<<<<<
Spouse
Gus W Melvin

You may need to re-think your response

Christina's father was Francis Wood and her mother was Mary Love Wood so don't think its the same person. The last one is recorded as father Frank C Wood and mother Mary E Wood.

Frank is the normal diminutive of Francis!!!!!!!!

Mary E could be a mistranscription. Don't try to research FH with a closed mind

Take out a free trial with Ancestry and look at the images yourself

Thank you for the tip ...I'm researching two sides of my family, so not always looking in the correct place perhaps.

If you take out a free trial make sure you cancel it within the time period otherwise you will be charged for a sub - assuming you don’t wish to carry it on.

Most UK library services have free access to Ancestry sometimes also/ or FMP.

They don’t have access to Scotland’s People.

Well done AG that certainly looks like her. Familysearch suggests that the Christina who marries Gus Melvin is Christina Wilson Wood 1870 Drumoak, Aberdeenshire but a quick search has her parents as James and Jane.

What I meant was that familysearch has made a mistake linking Christina Wilson Wood to the marriage. It was obviously a different Christina who married Gus Melvin and YOUR Christina seems to fit the bill going by the Marriage record found by AG.

It pays to look carefully at all the individual records, and to ignore 'links' on websites unless they offer irrefutable PROOF.