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Messages - rsayle

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Kincardineshire / Re: William Bruce + Watson
« on: Friday 03 February 17 08:38 GMT (UK)  »
Fun... William was my great, great uncle. George Bruce, William's younger brother, was my great grandfather.

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Kincardineshire / Re: Townhead Fettercairn Kincardine
« on: Wednesday 07 April 10 17:58 BST (UK)  »
[I just googled Townhead and Fettercairn and THIS item was top of the list. Wow! Fast spidering!]

Found "Townhead, Fettercairn, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire" from that search which suggests Townhead was a house or croft quite near Fettercairn. My ancestors lived at the Hunters Hill croft for nearly a century and it's not named on the Ordnance Survey even though it shows the building.

Thanks for your reply.

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Kincardineshire / Townhead Fettercairn Kincardine
« on: Wednesday 07 April 10 10:00 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me where Townhead is/was? My great grandfather died there in 1931.

I've pored over the Ordnance Survey maps but haven't seen it on a modern map.

This is the Townhead in/near Fettercairn not near Arbuthnott as "Townhead Fettercairn" is written explicitly on the death certificate.

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Kincardineshire / Re: Deciphering cause of death
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 22:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for both those answers. It took me over a minute to detect the missing loop in the "P" after I knew the answer. Looks like the missing ink was later delivered to the doctor's name.

There was a lot of tragedy in my great grandfather's family that modern medicine would have prevented. He and his first wife lost the last three children, all under the age of 1, of their 10 children to things that are curable today.

Merci...!


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Kincardineshire / Deciphering cause of death
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 22:11 BST (UK)  »
Posting this in the Kincardine section because my great aunt died in Bervie and maybe someone knows the registrar's handwriting?!

I've been fairly lucky in reading old certificates but this one has me stymied.

It's from my great aunt's death certificate and she died 6 days after the birth of her 10th child.

What I can read looks like "puerperal to__tonitis". So it's something postpartum related. I've tried to Google but nothing showed up. One of her younger sisters died at the age of 22, thirteen years earlier, of "puerperal insanity". Quite sad.

Any good eyes out there?

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Aberdeenshire / Re: KEMP, MITCHELL, EMSLIE, REID
« on: Friday 03 March 06 09:48 GMT (UK)  »
William Emslie and Barbara Middleton are my 3rd great-grandparents... (thanks be to programs that keep track of relationships for me.)

It was easy to track back to them but William's death certificate says his parents were Peter Emslie and Isobel Wilson and I've not found any of their records.

I've developed (with assistance of two cousins) a very extensive family tree of the descendants of William and Barbara, plus those who married into the family, and would be interested in hearing from anyone who's related.

Always gets my interest when I see a family name mentioned in the Internet.


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