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Topic: People Researching their roots needed for 'The Paul O'Grady Show' (Read 5192 times)
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mosstrooper
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One of my ancestors who has exactly the same names as me, along with 5 others from Dumfries, acting under the orders of a Phrenologist from Edinburgh named Coombe, entered the Burns Mausolium, dug up Robert Burns, severed the head from the body and took it to his house in Queensberry St where a plastercast was made.
This act took place in 1834 and caused outrage at the time, although little is spoken about it now. The plastercast is still kicking around in Irvine, and in my opinion so is Roberts head.
Another program perhaps for the rest of the story. (think Dan Brown)
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sarah
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Just to let everyone know, that Sandra gave me a telephone contact on Friday. I was able to chat with her today to establish that this post is genuine.
Sarah 
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martweb
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Sandra,
I have been trying to find details of my wife's paternal Grandfather.
My wife's mother was the illegitmate daughter of Margaret Ballantyne and a John Kinnear.
The only information we have is a correction on the back of her birth certificate confirming the paternity and that at the time (1905) Kinnear lived in Pilmuir, Newton Mearns and that he was a Miller
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James Tabago
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Hello Sandra
I'm looking for my McQuarrie family connections between Glasgow and Auchtergaven Perthshire. Have some information but am not able to find out why they moved between glasgow and Perthshire. All the McQuarrie's mentioned on search sites seem to come from every where else but Glasgow & Perthshire!!!! I think there is something odd in that and would really like to know. The futherest connection I have is an Archibald McQuarrie (about 1821 but hey this could also be wrong!!!!!) with and Ann Keiller, but even she doesn't seem to appear anywhere!!!!
Anyway at our house we all love the Paul O'Grady show especially the dogs, we have had rescue dogs in the past and they are the best!!!!!
good luck
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weemary
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Hi Sandra - if the offer is still on, I have a few brickwalls in Scotland as well.
Once of my ancestors actually wrote a genealogy history on the family, as well as a few other books, but dates etc don't match, and in the book Lady Flora Forbes before her marriage, was lady in waiting to Bonnie Prince Charlies mother.
Also in the book it states she was thrown out of her house by the Butcher of Culloden, and the house given to another branch of the family because they supported the English.
Also Thanistone, which is now a hotel was once the home of the Mitchell family, which was burnt down and rebuilt.
To date I have been unable to find any information on Flora Forbes.
The author's gt granddaughter, has researched the book, along with a few other branches, who have added their own notes, on records still to be searched
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Beaton Bethune, Campbell - ROC
Mitchell Leslie - Aberdeen
Mackintosh, Anderson (Provost) - Inverness
Boyle, Mckechnie, McPhail, Fulton - Ireland, Greenock, Kilbrachan
Pearce, Curnoe/Curnow - Cornwall
Patterson, Robson, Sloan, Campbell, Dixon - Southshields, Sunderland
Kitcheham, Gage - Kent
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linda-1
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hi i am reseaching hubbys great grandad william mcginn born 1865 in scotland who married a durham lass harriet elizabeth moore when&where i dont know
in fact i know nowt, excepy his father was born in ireland
linda
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Arranroots
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~ Grand Aunt Jenny ~
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Has anyone had any response from this thread?
I think there is a danger that it will drag on with no tangible results for RootsChatters posting their queries, so I am going to lock it.
I ask that anyone wishing to contact Sandra does so by Personal Message - or perhaps Sandra could let me know if she would like it unlocked in order to reply?
If you have queries that you would like RootsChatters to help with, please post them on the relevant board in the usual way.
Many thanks.
kind regards, Arranroots 
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS WIL: WEBB, SALTER RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY, BOYLE (DUNDALK) |
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