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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Henrietta Mcleod, Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland
« on: Tuesday 12 March 24 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ivy,
Welcome to Rootschat. I see you've not had any replies yet. I'm afraid I can't help with information about their journey, but do you have Donald and Catherine's marriage details and Henrietta's birth in Scotland?

From Scotland's People there is this baptism record:
MCLEOD HENRIETTA DONALD MC LEOD CATHERINE MUNRO FR 225 (FR225) F
13/07/1834 044 20 / 51 ASSYNT

And there are two marriage entries probably relating to dates of the banns:
MCLEOD DONALD CATHARINE MUNRO/FR309 20/04/1831 044 20 / 102 ASSYNT
MCLEOD DONALD CATHERINE MUNRO/ 20/04/1831 044 20 / 134 ASSYNT

So if this is the right family, they must have travelled sometime after July 1834.

Can you post any other information you have from NZ records, such as Donald and Catherine's ages or Donald's occupation? Those details might help someone else find them on a passenger list.

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Lanarkshire / Re: carnwath graveyard
« on: Wednesday 21 February 24 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much Lodger! I am hoping to go sometime so this is really helpful for locating the stone.

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Tuesday 20 February 24 21:07 GMT (UK)  »
I found Bradshaw's timetable for 1850 on this site: https://timetableworld.com/timetables.php
On p.96 it says London to Carlisle was 11.5 hours or 9.5 express and another 4 to Glasgow or Edinburgh.
I can't find the fares from London but (if I'm reading it right) Carlisle to Glasgow was 13s 2d in second class. Would there have been children's fares then? It's a long journey to be in the baggage car if the kids were posted!

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Friday 16 February 24 21:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Does anyone know how long the train journey from London to Scotland would have been in the mid 1850s? How much it cost? And what the trip would have been like?

There are two children living in London (Soho) with their father and step mother on the 1851 census. Their father died in 1853 when they would have been 8 and 10. In 1861 the youngest is living with her Aunt (my ancestor) in rural Lanarkshire, Scotland. (The eldest also went to Scotland but I haven't yet found him in 1861.)

I assume that train would be how they got to Scotland but would two children have been sent alone? They had another aunt in London but she had 6 kids of her own so unlikely to have been able to take them.
thanks

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Lanarkshire / Re: carnwath graveyard
« on: Wednesday 14 February 24 20:20 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Sancti.

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Lanarkshire / Re: carnwath graveyard
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 07:44 GMT (UK)  »
Amazing, thank you so much Lodger.
I didn't know anything about this family memorial. Now I'm wondering who cleaned it up!


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Lanarkshire / Re: carnwath graveyard
« on: Monday 12 February 24 21:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you RJ and Lodger for your very speedy replies!

I think the William Ramsay MI is the one I was looking for. Bit confused about his father in law being William Donaldson though, as he's James Donaldson on records I've seen. Interesting that a James died a few days earlier than the date on the gravestone for William.

I don't think Christina is connected but I will make a note in case I find a link. William senior and his family were in Stane, Cambusnethan by 1861.

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Lanarkshire / Re: carnwath graveyard
« on: Monday 12 February 24 20:25 GMT (UK)  »
Reviving this old thread in the hope that Lodger or another Rootchatter with access to the Carnwarth records see this.

Is there a burial for a William Ramsay sometime between 1841 and 1851? He was aged between 10 and 20 and from Forth.
Also looking for his grandfather James Donaldson who died between 1845 and 1851, again probably in Forth.
thank you!

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Midlothian / Re: Edinburgh addresses (Castlehill and Lawnmarket)
« on: Monday 20 November 23 18:52 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Monica. I'd missed the street index at the beginning and had been looking at the main listings for Castlehill and finding very few addresses included. Great to know 392 was Boswell's Court.

You're right about Castlehill being renumbered - I've just checked more directories and Boswell's Court was 392 in 1866 and 352 in 1867!

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