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I'm sure I have asked this question before, but even after trawling through all my posts, I cannot find it.
Remembering my childhood, my mother used to take me to visit a lady called Delia Maclennan in Dell Road - it could have been sometime between 1958 and 1966.
Was she a family member, or just a family friend?
Back in those days, as kids we called everyone Aunty or Uncle.
If anyone can help, I shall be very, very grateful.

A family member served both in the Royal Navy and the Merchant Service in the 1800s.

The first ship he sailed on was HMS Brazen, from 1826
The second ship was HMS Salamander from 1833
The fourth ship was HMS Revenge from 1840

But I can't make out the name of the third ship he served on from 1834.

Please can someone help.

I have been trying to tie in a Philip Macrae (sometimes spelt McRae or McCree) into my Mackenzie family.
Philip was a sailor, and married in Plymouth in 1847. On the marriage record, Philip's father was stated to be Christopher McCree, a boatbuilder.

On 30th October 1866 his "lunatic" son, christened Philip George Alexander, but known as Alexander, was registered for Poor Relief in Lochbroom. He was stated to be 14 years old, but according to the birth record that I have, he would have been 16 years old, as he was born in 1850.

Alexander appears on the census returns of 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 living with an Alexandrina/Alexina/Lexy Mackenzie (whose mother was Mary Macrae, and her reputed father was a Kenneth Mackenzie) in Market Street, Ullapool.

On the 1911 census Alexander is living with my great-grandmother, Christina Mackenzie, in Pulteney Street, Ullapool.

Incidentally, although Alexandrina/Alexina/Lexy spent all her life in Market Street, Ullapool - when she died in 1906, she died in Pulteney Street, Ullapool, maybe not in my great-grandmother's house though, as the death was registered by a Thomas Dawson, Red Row, who states that he is a "near relative"

I have just received further information about Philip McCree it seems that on 1st August 1835, he requests that an allotment of 18/- per month should be paid to his sister, Kitty McCree, living in Ullapool.

On the registration application Alexander was stated to be the orphan son of Philip Macrae, native of Annat.

I think Alexander was probably Downs Syndrome, as his mother was in her 40s when he was born.

I have just discovered the death certificate of a family member, Elizabeth Fraser, who died on 26 February 1906, in Hilton Cottage, Hilton Village, Inverness.

I can only remember Hilton as being as a housing estate, but wonder if anyone out there has any photos of Hilton Village, with maybe Hilton Cottage.

Thank you, in advance.

My grandparents came from Glasgow, and I know families from Glasgow went to Dunoon on holiday, so I wasn't too surprised to find my family in Dunoon on the 1921 census. My grandmother, grandfather, my mother and one of her sisters at Struan Bank, Victoria Road, Dunoon.
But then I got a surprise, because on the valuation roll for 1925, my grandfather is listed as a tenant for Struan Bank, as well as 9 Taymouth Street, Glasgow.
Again, on the valuation roll for 1930, he is again listed for the two properties.
What was all that about?