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Title: My Banffshire families...
Post by: meelymunch on Thursday 30 June 05 13:29 BST (UK)
Hello everyone, my name's Carole and i'm re-searching my family tree.The names that i'm most interested in are:

Gifford -   ( my maiden name)
Grant -  (names that married Grant's were Symon, Esson, Munro)
McHattie,
Wood"park" - (park is their tee name, from Portknockie)
Geddes - (moved from Buckie to Glasgow to Rothesay,Bute)
Robertson - (one married a McLean,another a Hollier)
Cowie and
Thomson.
All the above were from Buckie,Portgordon,Fordyce and Portknockie,Banffshire.

Fingers crossed, Carole.

         
 
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: hollowplaces on Sunday 17 July 05 16:04 BST (UK)
Carole,

Do tell me about your Robertson/Hollier connection - this one may be new to me! Not many Holliers ever turned up in Scotland.

Regards

Peter Walker
Hollyer, Holyer & Hollier One-Name Study
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: meelymunch on Sunday 17 July 05 19:21 BST (UK)
Hi Peter, You can check it out in my family tree website:


http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/meelymunch

Harry Hollier [a seaman]born 1884.
His parents were [Thomas Henry Hollier and Bertha Harris, according to the LDS Site from Warrickshire,UK]
He married my gg cousin Margaret Robertson on 20th Nov 1908 in Aberdeen.
On her death certificate it says : Margaret Hollier (known as Mellan)No mention of being either a divorcee or a widow.
Informant of death was John Mellan of the same address so i`m assuming she was separated and living with John Mellan as husband and wife.
I have no idea what happened to Harry Hollier and have yet to find out if they had any children together.

Cheers, Carole.


Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: hollowplaces on Sunday 17 July 05 20:35 BST (UK)
Hi Peter, You can check it out in my family tree website:


http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/meelymunch

Harry Hollier [a seaman]born 1884.
His parents were [Thomas Henry Hollier and Bertha Harris, according to the LDS Site from Warrickshire,UK]
He married my gg cousin Margaret Robertson on 20th Nov 1908 in Aberdeen.
On her death certificate it says : Margaret Hollier (known as Mellan)No mention of being either a divorcee or a widow.
Informant of death was John Mellan of the same address so i`m assuming she was separated and living with John Mellan as husband and wife.
I have no idea what happened to Harry Hollier and have yet to find out if they had any children together.

Cheers, Carole.




Carole,

How did I miss this? I have got this marriage on my records. Harry Amos Hollier born Q2 1884 Alcester RD and baptised 3rd Aug 1884 at Studley, WAR. Harry died Q2 1965 in Birmingham. I have no records of any children.

Thanks

Peter
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: meelymunch on Sunday 17 July 05 22:09 BST (UK)
Hi Peter ,
have you actually got a copy of his death cert? Any details of his death ... cause, informant, widower , etc ?
Is he any relation to your Holliers?
Cheers,Carole.
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: hollowplaces on Monday 18 July 05 00:06 BST (UK)
Hi Peter ,
have you actually got a copy of his death cert? Any details of his death ... cause, informant, widower , etc ?
Is he any relation to your Holliers?
Cheers,Carole.

Carole,

No, I'm sorry. Just one of many thousands of individuals in my One-Name Study - have collected the BMD index entries but certificates have to be bought sparingly.

Peter
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: valeeygirl2 on Monday 19 June 06 20:23 BST (UK)
Hi Carole

My 5th Great-Grandmother was a margaret McHattie who married Will Robertson on July 17 1798 in Grange.
Their daughter Janet married James Grant on October 5 1823 in Forglen.

Any of these familiar to you?

Mary
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: FishMan on Wednesday 28 June 06 08:08 BST (UK)
Carole,

Some of the surnames you listed are on the fringe of my maternal lines (MCINTOSH from Nairn & COULL from Portgordon). All listed below are in Portgordon or Buckie.

1. Jean GEDDES married Peter REID in Buckie c. 1790.
2. Jessie THOMSON b. 1839 the daughter of William THOMSON and Helen COWIE and married William COULL in Portgordon in 1862.
3. Anne COWIE married Alexander REID in Portgordon c. 1850.

Thought I would post these on the off chance you may find a link now, or at some stage in the future. Try the various OneName Study Groups. I know there are people who have researched families in this region pretty thoroughly because the small population meant lots of inter-marriages between the same local families. I got most of my COULL info from just such a person.

From a website perspective you can't beat - http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp

Good luck,


FishMan
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: yukongal on Wednesday 12 July 06 04:24 BST (UK)
I have some information on Elizabeth McHattie who married Hugh McLean Wilson, in Keith Banffshire, 19 Oct. 1845.

They also lived in Old Machar Aberdeen according to 1881 census.

Yukongal
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: runner on Wednesday 12 July 06 16:40 BST (UK)
Hi Carole

There's a great site for Port gordon/Enzie/Rathven for your Geddes line.

Try this link   http://rgu-sim.rgu.ac.uk/history/family_history.htm

Just don't get lost in it. ther's so much detail it's possible to get carried away and forget to come out for dinner, or breakfast or lunch next day !!  ;D

I'm from the Hendry (Beamer) line myself.

Russell
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...Mc Hattie.
Post by: Eilleen on Wednesday 09 August 06 13:45 BST (UK)
 I have mention of a John Mc Hattie , a Hotel Keeper , his daughter married my Peter Laing , famous cattle dealer from Keith, born 1880,   Eilleen.
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: merryhow on Saturday 01 September 07 22:08 BST (UK)

 Hi Meelymunch,
 
          I see from the surname interest list that you have Goodbrands somewhere on your tree, so have I. My GGrandmother ,BATHIA GOODBRAND b 29th Aug 1861, Fordyce, mother JANE GOODBRAND, FATHER ? Bathia married John Slater 1880 in Port Soy. They had 3 daughters (maybe more).John must have died because in 1895 Bathia married a Joseph Robertson in Rutherglen.

 Any connection?

         merryhow       
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: pampow on Saturday 24 November 07 18:43 GMT (UK)
Hi Carole
I see you have McHatties in your tree and wondered if you have any connection to mine

James McHattie b1883 was my  grandmothers father, his father was also James b1857 Deskford Banff  I have the line going backanother 2 generations  to 1771

any connection?

Pam
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: meelymunch on Sunday 25 November 07 17:57 GMT (UK)
Hi, My gggg grandparents were William McHattie and Elspet Smith (birth c1778)
They had a daughter (i don't know of any other children) Helen McHattie born c1799
She married John Grant in 1821.

That is my extent of my knowledge about the McHattie family so far.

Cheers, Carole
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Forfarian on Sunday 25 November 07 19:24 GMT (UK)
I have some information on Elizabeth McHattie who married Hugh McLean Wilson Yukongal

Yukongal, are you Dorothy?
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Derek Wood on Wednesday 26 November 08 13:35 GMT (UK)
Carole,been researching my family tree,saw you were looking for Wood "Park" and Gifford,hope your still looking,here's some info,my grandfather was David Wood "Park" born 23 Oct 1892,died 1970,my great grandfather was Alexander Wood "Park",born 21 June 1861,my great great grandfather was George Wood "Park" born 17 June 1840,died 2 Aug 1880,married Isabella Gifford on January 11 1862,whose father was either Edward or Edmund Gifford,I can't make it out from the marraige certificate,a shoemaker living in Portessie with his wife,Jane Geddes,hope this is of use to you,Derek Wood
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: meelymunch on Wednesday 26 November 08 18:24 GMT (UK)
Hi, Derek, i have sent you a pm.
Carole.
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Bill Wood on Wednesday 25 February 09 00:10 GMT (UK)
Carole and Derek,

I have similar interests and my tree at ancestry.com might give you some bits and pieces.

Have accumulated a lot of data over last 4 weeks - some of the sources may need checking.

http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/pt/listview.aspx?tid=9436366&ln=R

Regards

Bill Wood
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Napier12 on Thursday 21 May 09 19:29 BST (UK)
hi Derek, My great grandfather was Alexander Wood(Park) his daughter Caroline Slater nee Wood was my grand mother.Isabella Giffords parents were Edmund Gifford and Jane Geddes, and they were not married. Our great great grandfathers George Woods parents were Ann Sutherland and Alexander Wood. Caroline nee Slater
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Bill Wood on Friday 22 May 09 09:29 BST (UK)
hi Derek, My great grandfather was Alexander Wood(Park) his daughter Caroline Slater nee Wood was my grand mother.Isabella Giffords parents were Edmund Gifford and Jane Geddes, and they were not married. Our great great grandfathers George Woods parents were Ann Sutherland and Alexander Wood. Caroline nee Slater

Hello,

Alexander Wood born 1810ish and married to Ann Sutherland is my great great great grandfather - sounds like you and I are 3rd cousins ?

I can send you a ged file if you like

Although there is a lot of data out there I do wonder about the accuracy of the 1700s stuff - I quite easily "hoovered up" a heap of people on that line on ancestry that got me back to mid 1600s.


Bill (Australia)
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Napier12 on Friday 22 May 09 14:15 BST (UK)
Hi Bill, I would love to have any info that u have on our family, I have only just started looking, after my parents left Portknockie last year and came to live with us in South Africa.
Caroline
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Bill Wood on Saturday 23 May 09 14:56 BST (UK)
Caroline,

I have sent you a Personal Message with my email address - if you let me know your own email address I can send you what information I have got so far,

The lady who started this thread will also have some info relevant to your tree.

There is another website that I can email you details of - the Pirie family tree they link up with us somewhere and there is a chap with a huge Pirie  tree that contains some Wood folk.

Regards

Bill
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Rosemary Cottage on Thursday 20 May 10 00:53 BST (UK)
Hi Bill (and everyone else)

I would love the link the the Banffshire Pirie's. I have just found out my connection to them in the last month.

These are the family members taken from the 1891 Census. They left for NZ in 1895

Person: PIRIE, James      
Address: 20, Thomson Road, Litherland, Seaforth
PIRIE, James Wood   Head   1858
PIRIE, Mary   Wife   1858
PIRIE, Alexander   Son   1878
PIRIE, Jane   Daughter   1880
PIRIE, Andrew   Son   1882
PIRIE, Mary   Daughter   1884
PIRIE, James   Son   1886
PIRIE, Euphemia   Daughter   1888
PIRIE, Barbara Campbell Daughter 1890

Regards,
Julie
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Bill Wood on Saturday 22 May 10 08:17 BST (UK)
Hello,

Good Pirie web site is here

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/

Bill
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: rob 68 on Sunday 08 January 12 18:59 GMT (UK)
I have just started tracing my family history, I am Symon living in Englad, and have managed to trace back as far as 1871 Scottish census to a William Symon D.O.B 1841 born in Fordyce Banffshire. If you have any information or ideas on how I can trace back further please reply.
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: Bill Wood on Sunday 08 January 12 19:27 GMT (UK)
Rob,

Go to Scotlands People website. It is excellent.

Other useful ones are Ancestry, IGI, Genes Reunited

Regards

Bill
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: kiwihalfpint on Sunday 08 January 12 19:43 GMT (UK)
Hello,

Good Pirie web site is here

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/

Bill

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the link, seen two on my tree I don't have the death dates.


Cheers
KHP
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: rob 68 on Sunday 08 January 12 19:51 GMT (UK)
Thank you for your reply.

I will have a look now

Rob
Title: Re: My Banffshire families...
Post by: peppertide on Wednesday 01 February 12 07:03 GMT (UK)
I have been researching my Portgordon/Buckie lines. My Maternal Grandmother is (now deceased -2006) a Reid. I was given the website address of Peter Reid, Professor, who has actually done a lot of my work for me.... in fact, my mother wrote him several years ago thinking ,perhaps he could be a relative. Not,... his website is  www.portgordon.org   Peter is currently updating it but the family names are there :) with their ancestors/descendants... I mention this site as I did not see mention of it here...of course.. it may be known now. I have a Family Tree an ancestry.com. it is public. under Wardle.
Any info to fill in my holes will be greatly appreciated.. Let me know if I could be of any help,too...TX!