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breaky
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As I'm from the David Cuthill and Betty Jamieson branch, any relationship is, as you say, is a distant one, not as close as I thought, but with the unusual surname, it's worth making contact whenever it crops up!
I haven't explored much outside my own branch of Cuthills - no tree on Ancestry - and no shared cousin, either, it seems, but good luck with your searches.
I sympathize with your having to search for St Joseph's school - my old school in Dundee, Hawkhill primary, is still on its old site, but has been re-named Blackness primary - Blackness Road being a different street nearby and the original Hawkhill school road is now New Hawkhill...but at least there are lots of pictures of it on the Dundee Photo web-site.
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polarbearnoodles
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As you say, it's nice to find a fellow Cuthill descendant!
Please ask me if you have any questions about your Cuthill branch as I added them to my tree whenever I came across one so I just may have the answer.
Also, I'm going up to Inverkeilor and the surrounding areas on the weekend of 17/18 October so let me know if you would like photographs of anywhere. My sister lives in Forfar so we're planning to visit all the old stamping grounds!
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breaky
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That's really kind of you to offer to take photographs while in Inverkeilor, but I do have a photo (and a transcription of the wording) of Alexander Cuthill's gravestone, from another Cuthill family member, together with a view of the church, so all my hopes are fulfilled already.
I find it so heartening that everyone researching family history is so willing to help one another.
Have an enjoyable weekend!
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polarbearnoodles
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Hello,
I worked out how our branches are connected - it was a bit tricky! I think it goes like this....
Your Alexander had a brother called David (1800-1872) who married Mary Sime. They had a daughter called Jane Cuthill who married David Gray. They had a son called William Gray who married Jane Smith Cuthill.
Jane Smith Cuthill was the daughter of Alexander Cuthill (1838-) and Mary Inverarity. Alexander Cuthill had a brother called William Cuthill (both were sons of Robert Cuthill who married Christina Gray). William Cuthill is my Great Great Grandfather.
So the link is between William Gray on your side and Jane Smith Cuthill on mine. It seems the Grays and the Cuthills were very close families!
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breaky
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Thanks so much, polarbearnoodles, that's a very clear threading through the various mingling branches - good of you to puzzle it out and write it down for me!
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Seaocean0
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Hello Polarbearnoodles,
I link in from James Cuthill, born 1841, son of Alexander Cuthill born 1802, who, I think, is Robert's brother. Your other surnames are familiar, too.
It's possible we are both in contact, as well, with the "long-lost Cuthill" you mention, who is the source of much of my information - I'll go check and get back to you.
It's good to hear from you.
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Seaocean0
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Hello breaky,
You link from James Cuthill born 1841, son of Alexander Cuthill born 1802. Could you tell me if James Cuthill had sons?
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breaky
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Hello Seaocean0,
Yes, James did have sons. I could help with earlier family details.
breaky
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Seaocean0
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Breaky,
Thanks, and did James have a son named James. What do you know about Allen Pithie Cuthill?
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breaky
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Seaocean0,
I've sent you a personal message.
breaky
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Seaocean0
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Thank you received the message. Would like to chat
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susan18A
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I'm descended from Alexander Cuthill, he is my ggg grandfather, then through his son James b1841 as well. Then onto daughter Elizabeth b1878 who married James Strachan and their daughter Jane - phew!
Got quite a bit of Cuthill info if you're interested!
Susan 
Hello Polarbearnoodles,
I link in from James Cuthill, born 1841, son of Alexander Cuthill born 1802, who, I think, is Robert's brother. Your other surnames are familiar, too.
It's possible we are both in contact, as well, with the "long-lost Cuthill" you mention, who is the source of much of my information - I'll go check and get back to you.
It's good to hear from you.
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breaky
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Susan18A,
Glad to make contact with you again. (Pseudonyms hiding known friends - which probably happens to other Rootschatters!)
Apologies to anyone who just wants to know about Wilkie's Lane school.
breaky
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dundonian
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For the benefit of anyone interested in old school-registers, etc, you should contact the Dundee City Archives as they have quite a collection. You'll just have to ask them what they've got for St Joseph's. Incidentally, I was brought up in Wilkies Lane (1938 - 1951) and well remember the school. I used to play in the playground in the evenings, etc. There was a war-time emergency water-tank (about 10metres square by 1 metre deep) standing in the playground area bounded by Belfie;ld Street and Loudon's Alley. This was for fire-fighting purposes. I used to cut through the upper part of the school site to get from Wilkies Lane to Belfield Street on my way to school at Blackness Road. At the top end of Wilkies Lane, just past St Joseph's school , stood the catholic chapel. As children, we used to congregate outside the chapel when a wedding was taking place, to wait for the departing couple to lean out of the window of the wedding-car and throw pennies and ha'pennies, for good luck! It was certainly good luck if you managed to scrape up a penny or two and didn't get killed in the rush!! Good luck to you all in your searches for Cuthills etc.
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Betty Boo
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Hi Dundonian,
I too know this area very well although my family moved out the area when I was about 6 years old into newer houses recently built on the outskirts of the city.
My uncle lived in Isles Lane just a bit down the Hawkhill from the St Josephs school. Some of the family lived on the Burn as it was called and we lived in City Road.
Betty
also a Dundonian!!
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