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I have not come across that wording in a Scottish funeral notice, but it was also the custom here for men only to attend the actual burial. The first time women in my family followed the coffin to the graveyard was when my grandfather died in 1965.

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Lanarkshire / Re: Cat H Burnhouse, Carnwath
« on: Tuesday 30 April 24 00:03 BST (UK)  »
If you go back to the entry on Scotland's People (which you will be able to see again because you have already paid for it), then look at the blue boxes at the top. If you click on the one that says "View header", it will show you (free) the title page of the enumeration book and the page with the detailed description of the area covered. You might get a clue there. If not, if it's the continuation of a street or property, you might just have to buy the previous page and see what it says there.

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Scotland / Re: Scottish marriages conundrum!
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 21:06 BST (UK)  »
It would be interesting to see how the marital status of J H O'P is given on his death certificate.

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One of my grandfathers, James Thom from the parish of St Fergus, was in the 2nd Regiment of Aberdeenshire Local Militia. The only evidence I have for that is his wife and family appearing in a list dated 1809 and one dated 1812 of certificates granted for the relief of wives and families of militiamen (in the Aberdeen Archives). I used Bulloch's book (the one in the link in my previous post) to reconstruct the movements of the 2nd Regiment. James certainly wasn't away from St Fergus all the time as he had a son born there in April 1811. Men must have been granted leave.

This is my reconstruction from Bulloch:

The St Fergus and Longside company, 60 men in strength, was commanded by Captain Thomas Kilgour. It was linked (as centre company) with that of Rathen (left company) and that of Crimond and Lonmay (right company). These other two companies were of the same strength, and all three were under the command of Major Alexander Harvey, who ultimately became lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Regiment.
When his children were baptised, James is not described as serving in the militia, just that he was “in Inverugie”. The regiment was stationed at Haddington from May 1806 to May 1807, at Musselburgh from May 1807 to May 1809, at Edinburgh from May 1809 to May 1810, and at Berwick from May 1810 to November 1811. It was then at Dalkeith until December 1812, at Glasgow until February 1813, at Carlisle until March 1813, at Liverpool until June 1813, and at Norman’s Cross, Dover, until January 1814 when it took up residence in the Tower of London. It marched out of the Tower in August 1814 and arrived at Aberdeen on Saturday 17th September. It disembodied on Friday 23rd September, assembling again at Aberdeen on Tuesday 25th July 1815, a month after Waterloo, and continuing under arms until Saturday 24th February 1816.
All that can be said with certainty about his militia service is that James was in Edinburgh with his regiment in June 1809 and at Berwick in July 1810 and July 1811.

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It is just a misspelling of Crimond. If your man is Alexander McHardy, you will find him on this page.

https://archive.org/details/territorialsoldi00bullrich/page/378/mode/2up?q=mchardy

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Need help to find this street - Old Govan Road
« on: Wednesday 24 April 24 17:30 BST (UK)  »
I'm pretty sure they are just the same street. The link to the map below shows it as Govan Road. If you click to enlarge it you'll see the map shows the tramlines in the middle of the street the same as in the photograph.

https://maps.nls.uk/view/109707740

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1690 Scottish Baptism Record
« on: Thursday 18 April 24 23:51 BST (UK)  »
a s n = a son named

W. an abbreviation of witnesses

Alexr is an abbreviation of Alexander.

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I suspect that the mystery word is nyne = nine. Nine at 20/- gives a total of £9, so the arithmetic is right. You would expect a number here (compare "ane stirk" in the line above). I think the clerk wrote nyne and forgot to say what there were nine of! They will be animals because it says overheid (= a head).

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An article in Aberdeen Press and Journal  on 28 Nov 1974 stated that Charlie had not known he had to reregister as an alien in Cullen as he had already registered as an alien when living in Pembroke  :-\

An 1933 paper dated the Pembroke registration as Nov 1920

Kay

That would account for John Murray's comments about his "Welsh" origins.

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