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Aberdeenshire / Colonel David Forbes, 78th Highlanders
« on: Friday 27 June 08 00:41 BST (UK)  »
Well, it appears I am the illegitimate 4th great Grandson of Colonel David Forbes of the 78th Highlanders regiment, B.1778 d.1849. The young lady involved was Ann Serle (or Searle). I have found quite a bit about the Colonel and apparently much of his papers and correspondence are in the Trent University (Ontario,CA) archives. Unfortunately they are not digitized. I found his will and some other papers available on ScotlandsPeople, but thought I would see if anyone had seen them already while doing research on Forbes ancestors in Aberdeenshire, or perhaps someone in Ontario has been in the Forbes fond at Trent? I know it's a longshot, but at least I know that I can find a lot more information about my ancestors eventually now that I have a rather famous ancestor. Perhaps that line has already been traced back to before 1500? Does anyone here have experience dealing with distant relatives if one is an illegitimate descendant? Does it even matter this far along?

Can't wait to get up to Ontario!

Rich

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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: William Jaffray, Cuminestown Music Teacher ~1785-1815?
« on: Thursday 19 June 08 05:48 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Kirsty, I did have the site in my favs but I hadn't seen the Memorial List. I'm sure that will be useful and I'll get right on it!


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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: William Jaffray, Cuminestown Music Teacher ~1785-1815?
« on: Thursday 12 June 08 00:37 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the info, Lass.  It is certainly appreciated. I had found the 3 possible Williams but not the Ann Jaffray in the census! That's quite interesting, I'll have to do further looking and hope to find more info. I only based my Idea about the father being Alexander on the 3 Williams we both found. I also was doing some further reading at the local library today and one of the things I read was to be careful placing too much credence in the death certificate listings, as you must remember these are NOT the recollections of the deceased but rather the bereaved parties who may have fuzzy faculties at the time as well as second hand memories! But so far mine seems to make sense, at least as to the locations and names. We'll see about the occupation, I hope!

By the way, tommorow is my first day of teaching, so hopefully the ancestors will provide a little good fortune!

Thanks again!

Richard


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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / William Jaffray, Cuminestown Music Teacher ~1785-1815?
« on: Wednesday 11 June 08 04:44 BST (UK)  »
Hello!

This is my first post and I have been told very nice things about the folks on here by a friend!

I have been compiling a tree of my Mums side of the family and have reached my 4th Great-Grandfather, William Jaffray (or Jaffrey), who it seems was a ''Teacher of Music  in Cuminestown Parish, Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire'' according to the 1868 death certificate of his daughter Agnes Morrison, who was aged ~79 at her death. Needless to say I am quite intrigued, as I have a musical background myself and I have recently become a teacher as well! I was wondering if anyone in that area of Aberdeen had access to records that might shed some further light on this relative. I would assume he had to have had a better then average education, perhaps someone can recommend University records that I might search? Perhaps there are musicians guild records or something of that sort?

According to my research, William married Ann Burd on June 29th, 1789 in New Deer. His Father may have been named Alexander. That is as far as I've gotten!

Thank you so much for reading my post and I am looking forward to hearing from anyone!

Peace,

Richard

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