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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Forbes Family of Millers - Little Lochbroom
« on: Saturday 04 July 20 15:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: eversg on Thursday 24 May 18 01:17 BST (UK)
Only 3 years late replying to your question...duh. Sorry for the delay. My ancestry pursuits have gone in other directions, Yes, a  Robert Forbes was the Miller at Second Coast.

Hi Don_Niagara,
Was re-reading the info you posted  on the millers of Ullapool and area - what a treasure trove of ancestral detail! I’m writing an ancestral blog that may in part be of interest to readers:

ourfthistory@blogspot.com
Cheers,

Grant

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Moray (Elginshire) / Re: Sweethillock David Grant 1870
« on: Friday 01 May 20 15:38 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gaye Jenkins on Sunday 17 November 19 22:08 GMT (UK)
Hi there
You are making an enquiry about a David Grant and one of your replies says that he was working as a servant for the family that I am researching which is William Mustard of Muirton Farm, Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland.
Can you tell me if this is true??
Gaye Jenkins

Hi Gaye,
Sorry, I just noticed your reply - haven't checked rootschat for some time.
William Mustard was a prosperous farmer at Sweethillock, Ogston - now under the RAF base in Lossiemouth. Muirton farm was located near Sweethillock. In 1875 he paid £105 10s in rent (1875 Valuation Roll - ScotlandsPeople). He was listed as an "Occupier". The proprietor of all of the farms in the area was a Sir William Gordon Gordon Cumming, Baronet. His Factor was J.(?) Robert Walker, Whiter. I'll have to check my records to find the Muirton reference.

Cheers,
Grant

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Moray (Elginshire) / Re: Sweethillock David Grant 1870
« on: Friday 01 May 20 15:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: pharmaT on Sunday 17 November 19 22:55 GMT (UK)
From family stories in my family Alexander Grant (Forres) was frends with Ramsay Macdonald.  I wonder if there is any connection to your Grants.  Most of what I have is on my Alexander's Mum's side rather than his Dad's (Peter).

Sorry, I just noticed your reply - haven’t checked rootschat for some time. My Grandfather was a Richard Grant. He was born in 1870, five years after Ramsay MacDonald, in Lossiemouth and lived a couple of streets from him. Richard probably knew of Ramsay at a young age. Ramsay was very bright and quickly moved ahead. I believe he was teaching school at age 15! My Grants did not live in Forres, but there are family connections to it.

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Moray (Elginshire) / Re: Sweethillock David Grant 1870
« on: Friday 01 May 20 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: COLINBALLINGALL on Saturday 06 April 19 12:54 BST (UK)
My great grandmother was born there in 1868 and some of her siblings up to 1877

Sorry, I just noticed your reply - haven’t checked rootschat for some time. What was your great grandmother’s maiden name? My great-grandfather, a David Grant, was employed  at Sweet Hillock/Sweethillock as a farm servant and other farms in the community, such as Balgreen, Muirton and Balormie.

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Ross & Cromarty / Re: Forbes Family of Millers - Little Lochbroom
« on: Thursday 24 May 18 01:17 BST (UK)  »
Only 3 years late replying to your question...duh. Sorry for the delay. My ancestry pursuits have gone in other directions, Yes, a  Robert Forbes was the Miller at Second Coast.

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Banffshire / Re: Agnes (Murdoch) McDonald in Banff
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 19:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks anyways

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Banffshire / Re: Agnes (Murdoch) McDonald in Banff
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 16:35 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the excellent leads. The difficulty is that I live in Canada. I'll have to make a trip sometime.

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Banffshire / Re: Agnes (Murdoch) McDonald in Banff
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 05:40 BST (UK)  »
Agnes Murdoch was born in 1875 to John Murdoch and Christina Lamb.
Murdoch was her maiden name. The last address I have for her prior to 1948 was in 1911 in Lossiemouth. According to her death record in 1848, she was working as a housekeeper for J.T. Her husband was Alexander McDonald who passed away in 1898. Any information on John tomsin would also be useful Thanks.

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Banffshire / Agnes (Murdoch) McDonald in Banff
« on: Thursday 12 October 17 03:12 BST (UK)  »
Hoping to learn when an Agnes (Murdoch) McDonald moved to Banff. She worked as a housekeeper  in 1948 for a John Thomson who lived on Kingswell Lane in Banff. She was born in Lossiemouth in 1875.

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