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Falkyrn
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http://www.scan.org.uk/researchrtools/shetland_ms.htm
This notebook, 12 cm x 18 cm, with 68 pages completed, entitled 'Notes of conversations about the Old Rock'. ('The Old Rock' is a local phrase often used to describe Shetland.)
The author of the notes was Thomas Mathewson, a native of the island of Yell in Shetland who later became an episcopal church minister, first in Yell and later in Aberdeenshire. He seems to have prepared the notes around 1889-90.
The notes are about local antiquarian matters. They comprise anecdotes about local people and families, and archaeological matters, mainly about Yell, sometimes with a genealogical tinge.
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~Robert J Paton~
Searching for:
Ireland :- PATTON: WIGGINS , FLUKE, POGUE (POLLOCK).
Scotland :- GOURLAY: DEWAR : MACLELLAN : STEWART, FERGUSON : HENDRIE : BARR & others
Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thainig thu
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Rian
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My grandmother, Lilian Fennessy Hopkins
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Try this site — best I know of for Orcadian and Shetland records; my ancestors are also from Orkney, Shetland and Fair Isle.
http://www.cursiter.com/
Good luck, Rian.
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Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukResearching: Anderson, Atton, Bagley, Banks, Barlow, Bartin, Braid, Carveth, Cleary, Couper, Fennessy, Frank, Frisby, Garner, Hathaway, Hollis, Hopkins, Irvine, Jones, Karrasch, Kennett, Kirkpatrick, Kirkness, Kopittke, Leslie, McGinty, Marriott, Meredith, Minshull, Nind, Pearce, Pulley, Reid, Rendall, Shearer, Shorter, Spence, Stephenson, Tate, Warren. UK, Ireland, Prussia and Australia. |
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