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Aberdeenshire / Re: Fasque House servants
« on: Tuesday 29 August 23 19:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: still_looking on Monday 28 August 23 17:25 BST (UK)
National Register of Archives for Scotland in item NRAS2607 mentions 'household accounts'
https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrasregister/overview.aspx?st=1&ob=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=y&tp=n&k=Fasque&ko=o&r=&ro=m&df=&dt=&di=y

S_L

p.s. When Fasque was sold there were auctions to sell the remaining contents held by Taylors of Montrose, this was several (possibly more than ten) years ago.
2008 at least according to this BBC news item about the library
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7525655.stm

Thanks so much for this information. I have looked at the site and it's a closed record so I am going to try contacting them.

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Aberdeenshire / Fasque House servants
« on: Saturday 26 August 23 16:04 BST (UK)  »
Hello I am trying to find out if a family story is true. There is a story that one of my husbands ancestors was a servant at Fasque House/ Balbegno Castle during the time that Gladstone was prime minister. She told family members that she was working there when he visited his brother. Her name was Isabella Smith - born 8 March 1862 in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, about 2 miles from Fasque. WE know that she was definitely a domestic servant- according to the Census in 1881. She was at home on the census but lived less than 2 miles away.
I wonder if anyone has any ideas where the archives etc could be for the estate. I have tried contacting them and also Glen Dye estate but no one there has any archives. I wondered if any museums or local history groups would have any ideas?

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Kincardineshire / Re: Isabella Smith Domestic Servant- Fasque
« on: Monday 20 March 23 18:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the reply. She was listed on the census for 1881 as a Domestic servant and was living in Fettercairn which is very close to Fasque.

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Kincardineshire / Isabella Smith Domestic Servant- Fasque
« on: Monday 20 March 23 17:46 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find out if there are any records of Domestic servants employed at Fasque during the time that PM William Ewart Gladstone visited his brother Thomas who had inherited the estate from his father. Approx- 1880-1889
I would really like to know if the stories passed down the family about her working there when he visited are true.

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South Africa / Re: Arnold family records
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 22:30 GMT (UK)  »
Neale1961 thanks for your reply. I had seen some of the records but not realised how many there are on the site and that there were more pages! Thanks so much.

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South Africa / Arnold family records
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 19:22 GMT (UK)  »
I am researching my late aunts family from Cape town. I've found reference to them on the National archives for south Africa and want to try to see the documents. I have tried emailing but the email keeps bouncing back. Their details are as follows:
Gustav Earnest Arnold died 1944
Violet Angelique ( Bone) Arnold died 1955
I would be grateful for any help.

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Staffordshire / Re: Wakefield - which Charles ?
« on: Saturday 23 April 22 17:44 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: brigidmac on Saturday 16 April 22 22:50 BST (UK)
I am researching this family for my cousin
It looks like Charles Wakefield was an only child in 1911 after 10 years of marriage for his mother

I believe William Wakefields wife  Jane ROLLASON  was a relative of his mother  ann Mary ROLLINSON ( various spellings) though I can't remember the exact connection .the Rollasons have  large families .
Thanks for the reply. I have been trying to find her on the 1921 census- can only find Charles with his Uncle and Aunt- Joseph and Rosannah Parkes.

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Europe / Re: French electoral roll or Phone book
« on: Friday 08 April 22 13:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: joger on Thursday 07 April 22 11:10 BST (UK)
Hello,
I have got their marriage certificate, do you want it or do you already have it?
Thanks so much Joger but I do have it already.

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Europe / Re: French electoral roll or Phone book
« on: Saturday 02 April 22 18:11 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: joger on Wednesday 30 March 22 18:16 BST (UK)
Sorry but this person could still be alive, being born around 1938.
How do you know he was a relative , what is written precisely on the certificate?

The death certificate states that he's a cousin.
I realised that he could still be alive but can't find anything out about him.
Thanks

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