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Aberdeenshire / Re: Relative in Stuartfield
« on: Tuesday 16 April 24 00:07 BST (UK)  »
Another amazing update for anyone interested! RootsChat continues to be the most awesome place to find new family connections, as I have recently been contacted by my cousin Diane who is Jane Hutcheon's GG Grandaughter! She found me from another thread where I had posted a picture of  Jane's house in Stuartfield (though I didn't know it was Jane's house when I posted it!). It turns out Diane was born in that very same house! Here is the thread link for anyone interested.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=763994.0

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Knock Street, Stuartfield (Looking West) Date?
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 16:50 BST (UK)  »
My research has found that Jane Hutcheon had at least 6 children, 5 boys and 1 girl. Check this thread for more info... https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=764025.0

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Knock Street, Stuartfield (Looking West) Date?
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 16:38 BST (UK)  »
Here is a link to the two pictures I have of the family.

https://i.imgur.com/BRU2bop.jpg

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Knock Street, Stuartfield (Looking West) Date?
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 16:21 BST (UK)  »
Blimey! Hello Cousin! I am descended from Jane Hutcheon's son Alexander Keith Hutcheon who was born November 19th, 1870 in Milbrex. He is my GG grandfather. My name is Richard and I am 56. Alexander's father I am pretty sure was Arthur Keith, a farmer who was later married to a Margaret Chalmers. Alexander married Margaret "Maggie Jane" Young on January 6th, 1900 in St. Machar. They emigrated in 1920 with their children to Toronto, and then eventually a year later to New York. I still live in the NY area, and my mum Margaret is still alive and well at 87. She would be Jane's Great Grandaughter. I am so happy to find you!! Do you have any pictures of the family? I have two pictures of Jane. One with my Granddad when he was a wee boy, and one from the 1930's with her son Donald and Daughter Joann and her husband. Can't wait to hear from you!

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Aberdeenshire / Re: "College" District in Aberdeen?
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 22:46 GMT (UK)  »
Very helpful everyone, as always! Hello again Forfarian, hope you are well!

So that likely leaves out the College birth, meaning probables are left with Huntly 1954 and Ellon 1952.  A young lady with that name married the same year of my relatives death also in Inverurie. The first and middle name match the Huntly birth, but that would make her barely 18 at the marriage. Perhaps not unlikely considering she was a foster-daughter, so maybe no other family or means of support after my relatives passing? Thoughts?

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Aberdeenshire / Re: "College" District in Aberdeen?
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 17:25 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Tuesday 13 February 24 16:59 GMT (UK)
I am afraid that as she is still possibly living you will have to remove her name from your post.

Done. Still wondering about the College thing, Thanks.

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Aberdeenshire / "College" District in Aberdeen?
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 16:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello all the wonderful folks on RC, I have been gone a while but I have returned!
Hope all the great folks are still here and well!

So now that the 50 year privacy rule has expired, I finally was able to obtain the image of the DC for my GG-Uncle who passed in 1972 in Inverurie. Not much useful info but it does give more information about his foster-daughter,********. Her address is listed as Meadow Cottage, Upper Coltown, Kintore. Trying to trace a birth record for her I've hit on three or four possibles. The closest and most likely is in Ellon, but one of the others the RD is listed as "COLLEGE". I am unable to find any further info on this as all the searches just keep coming up with various College's such as the Univerity of Aberdeen. Anyone able to help with this?

I will next try and find if ******* married and had any children. Would love to find her if she is still alive. She would be in her 70's now at least.

Take care all!

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The Common Room / Re: Multiple illegitimate children: how unusual?
« on: Saturday 07 August 21 22:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: coombs on Saturday 07 August 21 14:21 BST (UK)
My ancestor lived in rural Berkshire and had 3 illegitimate children inbetween 1822 and 1828. Maybe the father wouldn't or couldn't marry her, that is if they all had the same father. I descend from the one born 1822, Thomas Edgington.

Yes, it's very hard to trace fathers in those years before the civil records. If the parents weren't active in the church, and sometimes even if they were, records were scarce to none. I've gotten lucky with most of my illegitimate ancestors so far. The Scot's occasional practice of using the fathers surname as a middle name has saved me several times. Also I have found documentation in poorhouse records as well as Church records. I even have found valuable family history in a book of traditional songs of Scotland! Of course, not everyone will have a piper or fiddler in the family, but it goes to show that you can find things in the most unusual of places. It's a never ending saga, Family research is!

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The Common Room / Re: Multiple illegitimate children: how unusual?
« on: Saturday 07 August 21 02:48 BST (UK)  »


"Sometimes people did sell themselves a few times, to earn some money if they were poor and desperate."

Oh, without question that happened on occasion. I'm just saying that the overall rate of illegitimacy had very little to do with prostitution, even though one might think the two were related.

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