Sclater Family Tree research resources
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Sclater records on Ancestry
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Historical References
"SCLATER, SLATES, SLATTER. From the occupation, Middle English sclaterfe, one whose trade is to lay slates on roofs of houses. Henry Sclatur was concerned in a charge of breaking the peace in Aberdeen in 1399 (CRA., p. 377). Robert Sklatare sold his tenement in Glasgow in 1430 (LCD., p. 247), John Sclater was a burgess of Arbroath in 1458 (RAA., n, p. 99), and another John Sclatar witnessed a Forfarshire obligation in 1497 (ibid., p. 308). Payment was made in 1508 to William Sclater for repairs to the roof of the church of Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, for himself and two men for xii dais dennar and noneschankis v li (Soltre, p. 162), and John Sklaitter was slater of the palace and church of Dunkeld in 1514 (Rent. Dunk., p. 146). The surname appears in Shetland in 1612 and in 1616 in which year Nicoll Sclaitter or Sklaitter in Skallowaybankis appears on assize (MCM., n, p. 166; "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Sclater Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sclater Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sclater family tree.
Search Sclater Parish Records at Find My Past.
Search the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the Sclater family name using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records of the Sclater family.
Research the Sclater surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Sclater Military records.
Sclater Genealogy Databases
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Miscellaneous Sclater Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on the Sclater family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the Sclater surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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