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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Perthshire => Topic started by: Aileen on Wednesday 31 July 13 12:20 BST (UK)
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Hello
A great Aunt of mine died in 1900 at the age of 26 of Typhus fever,whilst working as a domestic servant at an address in Creiff.
Can anyone advise me on how I would find who lived at this address in 1901, just being extremely nosey and want to try to find out something about the family that she would have worked for. The address on the death certificate is Balmenoch Creiff.
Many thanks
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hi aileen
find my past has street address search for census records if you don,t have access to them post the address you want and we can have a look for you .
yours
trevor
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I've tried Balmonech & Creiff in an address search and nothing is comign up. Is there a street name or anything else I can try?
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hi aileen
yes it did that to me you need to put in Perthshire for the county and crieff for the residential place then it should be ok .
trevor
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Have done as Trevor suggested and put in Crieff and Perthshire in the address search. I've been through all the streets and I can't see Balmenoch.
Lots of house names but the closest is Balmiden :(
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Hi all ,
Perhaps not the one you are seeking but there is this address on 192.com -
Balmenoch, Dundas Street, Comrie, Crieff, Perthshire.
ev
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http://hsewsf.sedsh.gov.uk/hslive/portal.hsstart?P_HBNUM=6196
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Listed under other establishments in Comrie: -
Balmenoch - Duncan Clark, 62, widower, shepherd b Killin
Jessie Clark, 24 daughter, housekeeper b Comrie
Ref: RG13, piece 341, Folio 9, page 5
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Thanks for all the replies folks, got waylaid for a while but will now go do as suggested. :)
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Hello
A great Aunt of mine died in 1900 at the age of 26 of Typhus fever,whilst working as a domestic servant at an address in Creiff.
Can anyone advise me on how I would find who lived at this address in 1901, just being extremely nosey and want to try to find out something about the family that she would have worked for. The address on the death certificate is Balmenoch Creiff.
Many thanks
Hi Aileen
Balmenoch was a large property in Crieff which overlooked MacRosty Park. I believe it burnt down and was replaced with a more modern building. It was located between Comrie Road and Gwydr Road on Crieff. Your spelling of Crieff may account for not finding anything in searches.
Hope this helps.
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thank you so much for this information and photograph! sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you, not been doing the family tree for ages but want to get back into it.
Have you any further information i.e. when did the house burn down, was trying to find newspaper reports but so far not found what i'm looking for.
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The 1905 Valuation Roll, available at Scotland's People, lists Mrs Constance R B Ewing as the proprietor and occupier of Balmenoch, Comrie Road, Crieff. It isn't listed in 1895 or earlier, and from 1915 it was the property of Mr Samuel Murphy. The intervening years (1896-1904) are not on SP, but they will exist and it should be possible to consult them in libraries including Crieff and Perth, the National Library of Scotland and the National Records of Scotland.
It must have been a large house, because its rateable value was £110, and only two other properties listed on the same page of the VR were rated higher. The lowest on the page was rated at £3 10s and the highest was £160.
Constance R B Ewing, aged 100, died in London in 1960. Constance R Blackie married Hugh M Ewing in Glasgow in 1888, and Glasgow City Archives has a copy of their marriage contract. In 1891 Hugh McM Ewing, 37 and Constance R Ewing, 30, were in the census in Partick, and in 1911 she was in Edinburgh, aged 50. I have not found them in 1901. Hugh McMaster Ewing, aged 40, died in Folkestone in 1894. Constance Robertson Blackie was born on 11 July 1860 and her birth was registered in both Rosneath and Partick. Hugh McMaster Ewing's baptism was recorded on 9 June 1853 in both Kilbride (Bute) and Barony (Glasgow).
You could easily find out when the house changed hands, both when the Ewings acquired it and when Mrs Ewing sold it, from the Registers of Sasines. Unfortunately consulting the Registers of Sasines requires a visit to the National Records of Scotland, or possibly Perth and Kinross Libraries or Archives may have a copy of the annual calendars of abridgments, and if they do the abridgments would contain quite enough information to provide an answer to your question.