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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Translation from Scots Please - Page 4
« on: Sunday 15 April 18 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Have to say this is a fantastic piece of Scots writing - would do the youngsters well if they encountered this sort of thing in SQA Higher English ! (Some choose to do a 'Scots literature' part)

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Re: Shaw Family West Indies to Scotland
« on: Monday 02 April 18 12:35 BST (UK)  »
I don't know if I'm the only Scot that didn't know/is very surprised at this, but on researching a branch of my family from Banffshire to Jamaica (with the army) I found that there was already a large concentration of their unusual surname there (Farquharson) - anyway it turns out that some of these people were Jacobites shipped over after Culloden.  I was horrified to find that there is a place called Farquharson Wharf where slaves were bought and sold, and the UCL slave-owners study has a great deal of north-east Scotland names.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Address in London Help Please !
« on: Wednesday 28 March 18 00:15 BST (UK)  »
It could be.  Looks way better than I expected - and the property prices now are eye popping.  The guy was only an assistant grocer and 'incomer' from, the highlands.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Address in London Help Please !
« on: Tuesday 27 March 18 23:04 BST (UK)  »
The following is from a marriage cert - marriage held in St Jude's church South Kensington.  Other area we know of link with is Hackney.


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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry problems, how is FindMyPast nowadays?
« on: Saturday 24 March 18 21:12 GMT (UK)  »
So for researching a Scottish family with forrays into the commonwealth and US but next to nothing in England and Wales a world sub for Ancestry along with use of Scotland's People would be preferable ?

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Alexander MacLeod(b.1820's) of Stornaway , daughter Dandina MacLeod.
« on: Saturday 24 March 18 13:23 GMT (UK)  »
Sure, Will do when I muster up the strength for this  ;D There's always the possibility of linking up with a certain US President when looking at MacLeods in Lewis too isn't there  :o



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Ross & Cromarty / Alexander MacLeod(b.1820's) of Stornaway , daughter Dandina MacLeod.
« on: Saturday 24 March 18 13:18 GMT (UK)  »
Looking at this in trepidation, I have a gt gt grandfather an Alexander MacLeod from Stornoway born around 1820s - the very thought of trying to follow that line gives me the gibbers.  I have other Lewis forebearers from Leurbost, but I knew which croft, so that made it hugely easier.  The problem is that his daughter (my Gr grandmother) showing as Dandina MacLeod (Also recorded elsewhere as Ena and Dina), marrying James Matheson of Ullapool, got married in London, so I currently don't have her mum's name (Alexander's wife). It has dawned on me that I might/should get Dandina's maiden surname on her death cert - but am at a dead end till I next go to Registrar House - since I'm too mean to pay the price on Scotland's People !

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Re: Replying to very old topics
« on: Saturday 24 March 18 11:56 GMT (UK)  »
Just to say I have found some very old posts on here done by a remote cousin, who I  now cannot contact, but through the posts and discussions I can benefit from the research they had done and the thoughts/theories that they had.  Taking discussion away from the board into email reduces the benefit for anyone coming along in the future and looking for the same family lines.

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Other Countries / Re: G. Mackintosh in Thailand/Burma 1910 -1923
« on: Friday 23 March 18 11:16 GMT (UK)  »
Bit of a fishing trip but you could see if you could find an obituary for George which might give more info ?  Last night I was looking at my g grandfather's obit in the Aberdeen Evening Express which started with 'John, late of Rangoon (Burmah), died last night.....'

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