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Peeblesshire / Re: Houses in Walkerburn
« on: Friday 02 February 24 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much fellow RootsChat community! What a speedy and interesting response, I am extremely grateful to you all for supplying so much information.
Thank you hanes teulu and Alan Boyd for the Walkerburn & Pinkbank maps - most useful and I look forward to a visit to Walkerburn this year so I can use them in situ to identify where my ancestors lived. They are absolutely fascination to study as they reveal so much about the village and its community.
Thank you GR2 for the important snippet of info which I had missed about Alexander Stewart owning two houses at Pinkbank and for the tip to look at the Parish Valuation Rolls. Much appreciated.
Thank you to Fiddlerslass for the information about Adam Stirling, a builder who did some work in the area - it would certainly explain the set of initials. I shall follow this up to see if I can find anything further.
Thank you again everyone.

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Peeblesshire / Houses in Walkerburn
« on: Wednesday 31 January 24 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know the builder of a couple of houses in Walkerburn please?

There are 2 or 3 houses in Walkerburn, built just above the river and the road through the village. Directly opposite those houses is the row of Pink Bank Cottages I think.  The houses I am interested in have the letters "AS" on them which perhaps may indicate the builder or for whom they were built.
My Gt. Gt. Grandfather Alexander Stewart 1815 -1891 lived No.7 Pink Bank Cottages with his wife Isabella Baillie (1822-1896) however Alexander was of lowly means, having mostly worked as a farm servant/labourer for most of his life and is unlikely to have had the money to buy the land or build the houses.
I would be very grateful for more information on these houses which have "AS" on them.

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World War Two / Re: RAF Training WW2
« on: Tuesday 26 May 20 17:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much medpat and Crumblie, I am most grateful for your combined advice.
I have looked at the  MOD site and think that is worth a try.  I found the London Gazette notification on line too.
In fact it was when I was browsing through old posts in this section that I found a question about whether aircrew were posthumously promoted as a matter of course and that set me on the track to search for what I could find out about my cousin.
Now I know where to hopefully find out more.

Thanks again both for your help.

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World War Two / RAF Training WW2
« on: Monday 25 May 20 14:26 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find where my cousin  F/S George Clark Mitchell (189118) trained for the RAF. He was in the RAFVR and then ended up in 103 Squadron at Elsham Wolds as Air Bomber on Lancaster NE136 which was shot down by night fighters on 14 July 1944, the crews 27th operation. The Lancaster crashed near Biencourt-Sur-Orge and all the crew were lost.
He started his tour on 15 Mar 1944 but I cannot find where/when he enlisted or where he trained before joining 103 Squadron.
Can anyone suggest where I might search please - I just can't seem to find any relevant records.

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Midlothian / Re: Gilmerton, near Edinburgh
« on: Monday 06 March 17 07:52 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for all the information. The maps are a great help and I really appreciate the time and effort you have put into to helping me with my research. I am coming up to Edinburgh next week to have a walk around Gilmerton and will use your maps as a guide.
Thank you again.
Bullzeye

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Midlothian / Re: Gilmerton, near Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 05 March 17 20:30 GMT (UK)  »
Tom,
Thank you for your research. This is a brilliant result.
I had heard somewhere of a motor cycle accident in the family but there was no name given.
my father and uncle never talked about George Blackwood Mitchell and When I was doing research he seemed to disappear after the age of 17 until Ifound his army details and then his marriage in Aberdeen.
The Blackwood family originally came from New Cumnock in Ayrshire so I wonder whether he caught up with the old folk when he returned.
THe two children  I think may be from his wife's previous marriage.

Many ,many thanks  Tom for this breakthrough....I'm pretty sure I would have struggled without your help.
All Best regards, Angus

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Midlothian / Re: Gilmerton, near Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 05 March 17 12:30 GMT (UK)  »
Belated reply. Just confiming that James BLACKWOOD Mitchell  was my grandfather.
John Charles Mitchell and George Blackwood Mitchell were his older and younger brother respectively.
has anyone any details of George Blackwood. he was a mechanical engineer and served through
WW 1 with the Oxford and Bucks  . HE survived and married in Aberdeen after the war but I have no further information of him or his family.
Best regards, Bullzeye

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Midlothian / Re: Gilmerton, near Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 18:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again Suzielad,
Thank you for all your efforts to locate" Sundial ". We are coming up to Edinburgh in March and will visit Gilmerton.
As far as Charles and Janet Mitchell , I can give you birth dates, census details etc when I get my act together. I haven't really done much family history for 5 or so years as I was working away.

do you subscribe to Ancestry as I have put some. Information there on the Mitchell and Blackwood Mitchell trees.
Please let me know how I can help.
Best regards, Angus

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Midlothian / Re: Gilmerton, near Edinburgh
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 16:19 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Suzielad, kit and Monica,
You certainly have been busy . Now I'm being spurred into getting my family history out again.
Sundial is beginning to come to life again.
Mrs J.C .Mitchell was my grand uncles widow and I think ther were 5children, three girls and two boys
,Joyce, born 1893,Catheriine born 1895,Richard born 1902 (emigrated to Canada in late 1940's),John Charles Gibson Mitchell born in South Africa 1905, Grizel , born 1909 in South Africa. All three followed their father into medicine.
their father died in in 1913 in Johanesberg of tuberculosis and the family returned a to Gilmerton.
John returned to South Africa after graduating in medicine at Edinburgh.inthe late 30s and then later to Souther Rhodesia.

My great grandmother Janet( aka Jennie) married Charles Mitchell born in Newton 1847.
Janet died 23/12/1930 at Ferniehill Road Gilmerton . CHarles was a Carter,haulier and dairyman .

The Mitchell family I belong to was from Woolmet, Liberton,Inveresk And Gilmerton.
the search continues.
Many thanks for all your help.
Best regards, Angus

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