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Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« on: Tuesday 20 May 08 17:58 BST (UK) »
Hi,

My great grandparents, Peter Grant Raitt and Jane Milne, were married on 31st December 1895 at Laing's Hotel, Peterhead.

Can anyone tell me where this was or, better still, point me in the direction of some photographs. I am also intrigued by the fact that so long ago, when surely most people would have married in a church, they, for whatever reason, didn't. Any suggestions as to why this might have been?

Thanks,

Jen
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NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 18:23 BST (UK) »
Hi Jen

If it helps to pinpoint it, from the 1891 census there are entries for a 'SAING'S HOTEL' in Prince Street Peterhead (as with all transcriptions, Saings could be Laings). Can't easily see it in 1901.

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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 18:25 BST (UK) »
Just confirming that address from an old post: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peterhead/message/286

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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 18:34 BST (UK) »
Monica,

Thanks for both replies. The link tells me that it became the Palace Hotel so I'm off to search for that now. Still wondering about the marriage bit though.

Jen
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson


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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 18:40 BST (UK) »
Could either of the couple have been working/living there?

Monica
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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 18:48 BST (UK) »
I suppose Jane Milne could have been employed there before her marriage. It seems it was a Temperance Hotel so maybe that side of the family isn't responsible for my love of a good wine. Peter Raitt was a ships' carpenter and Jane's father, Joseph Milne, was in the building trade - sometimes a quarry manager, sometimes a stone mason, depending on what it is I'm reading! So no obvious connection to the hotel trade. Unless of course, Joseph Milne was the other sort of Mason as well and was big buddies with the hotel owner.

Jen

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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 20 May 08 21:51 BST (UK) »
Hi,

My great grandparents, Peter Grant Raitt and Jane Milne, were married on 31st December 1895 at Laing's Hotel, Peterhead.

Can anyone tell me where this was or, better still, point me in the direction of some photographs. I am also intrigued by the fact that so long ago, when surely most people would have married in a church, they, for whatever reason, didn't. Any suggestions as to why this might have been?

Thanks,

Jen

It's quite feasible.  My parents were married in 1912 at the Castle Hotel (now a Nursing Home). Inverbervie
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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 03 June 08 16:40 BST (UK) »
Jen,

Here's a link to the Palace hotel website -
http://www.palacehotel.co.uk/

I'll be in Peterhead sometime either later this week or next week, so if you want any photos, just let me know.

Cheers
Jim
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Re: Laing's Hotel, Peterhead
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 04 June 08 18:15 BST (UK) »
Jen,

Here's a link to the Palace hotel website -
http://www.palacehotel.co.uk/

I'll be in Peterhead sometime either later this week or next week, so if you want any photos, just let me know.

Cheers
Jim

Thanks,

I had a look at the web site and reckon things have changed just a little since the wedding in question! I am hoping to be up there myself later in the year so thanks for the offer of photos but I should be able to take some myself.

Cheers,

Jen
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson