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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Clackmannanshire => Topic started by: SteveBUK on Wednesday 15 April 09 19:18 BST (UK)
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I am researching the DICKIE families that lived in Menstrie from at least 1808 until 1951. Various generations owned the public house now known as the Holly Tree from the mid 1800's until 1914.
Would really like to make contact with anyone who has a connection. Or can point me in the direction of any local hisory sources or any period photographs of Menstrie.
Steve
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Steve, i have no connection but there are 2 photosof menstrie castle on the francis frith site:
http://www.francisfrith.com/menstrie/photos/
also there are a few names on the Clackmannanshire surnames site:
http://www.dgnscrn.demon.co.uk/genuki/CLK/misc/surnames/CLKabcd.html#D
also picture of the Holly tree etc on menstrie site:
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/menstrie/menstrie/index.html
Diddy
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another site:
http://www.menstrie.org/px.html
photos / info etc.
Diddy
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Oh good grief, those pictures of Menstrie took me back :'(
My mothers family lived there for years and I remember a great aunt taking me to the Holly Tree Inn for lunch when I was about 8 or 9.
Carole
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Hello Steve
My great grandfather had a sister named Margaret MacMillan who married a Robert Dickie in 1895 in Tullibody. Margaret died in 1904 and Robert remarried. His #2 wife was Margaret Page . Robert died in 1947 at Hollytree House Menstrie. His occupation was a cooper. The informant on the d/c is his son Robert Dickie . Robert was the son of Robert Dickie, also a cooper and Jane Paterson
Sylvia
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Looks as though there's a few Dickies buried in Tullibody Churchyard/Cemetery (including some of Sylvia's).
I don't think there's a cemetery in Menstrie, so Tullibody or maybe Logie would be the closest?
Have a look here: http://www.memento-mori.co.uk/
Anne
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No cemetery in Menstrie, Logie appears to be the local one for Menstrie. Next time I'm through at Logie, I have gt aunt and gt and also gt gt grandparents buried there, I'll have a look at the stones and see if I can see any with the name Dickie.
Caz xx
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Many Menstrie people are buried in Alva - and there appear to be 4 Dickie graves there
http://www.memento-mori.co.uk/102.pdf
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William Dent’s sister Mary b 1847 in Lancashire d 7/11/1904
m 1868 William Dickie who had arrived in NZ late 1850s from Menstrie, Scotland
They owned a store in Cobden, on the West Coast of the South Island.
They had at least six children.
William Dickie’s son William James Dickie became an MP for Selwyn, NZ, and committed suicide.
You will find full details on the internet.
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A wee bit of background. The village of Menstrie is in the parish of Logie, a parish which is partly in Perthshire, partly in Stirlingshire and partly in Clackmannanshire. Menstrie is in the Clackmannanshire part. It is also only a mile or two from Alva, which is another parish in Clackmannanshire.
So any church records of people in Menstrie would likely be in the Logie parish register, which is generally listed as being in Stirlingshire.
See https://stataccscot.edina.ac.uk/static/statacc/dist/parish/Stirling/Logie
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You might want to look at the Blairlogie archive it has a fair bit of info about Menstrie
http://www.blairlogie-scotland.org/archive.html
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There is a book
Menstrie: A people's history by John Adamson