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Fife / Re: GOURLAY & FORRET
« on: Thursday 23 May 19 20:00 BST (UK)  »
I know it's been a LONG time this was posted but yes, I'd like some information on the FORRETs of Ceres, Fife. I know that an Andrew, William, James and Helen Forret were all living (and getting married) there circa 1664-1671. Trying to tie this family branch to an earlier one in St. Andrew's.

Sandra

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Friday 18 January 19 17:53 GMT (UK)  »
He didn't refer to himself as Captain anywhere else except for the 4/5 mentions in the Cambrian Newspaper that I found. None of his many children have him listed as Captain on their birth/marriage certificates....only Hugh Macdonald, gentleman (or esquire).

I can only assume that the Cambrian newspaper would put a birth/death/auction notice in that he or someone representing him (for the auction) would pay for. So he must have referred to himself that way, at that time.

In never failed to put a b/m/d notice in local papers but he's only referred to Captain while he lived in Swansea from 1836-1843.

Oh well.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Thursday 17 January 19 01:28 GMT (UK)  »
Just read something today, (which I should have thought of before) that said the "chief" or head of the clan was also called Captain (in Clanranald). Now I know he wasn't considered the Chief of Clanranald but he was the heir to the Macdonalds of Boisdale so maybe that's how he referred to himself...at least while he was in Swansea lol...

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Tuesday 15 January 19 15:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annie,

I'm so sad to hear Angus has passed away!!  :'( He was so incredibly helpful to me in so many ways. I know that Charlotte and Amelia both left for Tasmania from Leith, Scotland in 1832 so they were never on Guernsey. They were nieces of Hugh's sisters who married soldiers in Guernsey. Hugh's sisters and mother all went to Guernsey between 1826 and 1828 because they were still in Scotland before 1826. One sister married in 1829, the mother died in March 1830, and the other sister married in 1830 as well. Hugh is not anywhere in the picture. His 2 daughters Charlotte & Amelia would have been in Scotland or England. I know the exact date they left Leith and arrived in Tasmania too. Hugh was such a strange man. Disappearing for years without a trace and then reappearing in a completely different place.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Saturday 12 January 19 17:27 GMT (UK)  »

Interesting but there are very few sponsors on any of their children's baptismal records (I have all the birth certificates but not all the baptismal records) This couple were not "officially" married until 1843 at Gretna Green after they already had 9 children! He also had a son born in Scotland and 2 daughters born in England, I believe who were not from this woman. He was something that's for sure! The daughters emigrated to Tasmania in 1832 and married there. They refer to him as being daughters of Hugh Macdonald, Esq., of Boisdale...not captain.

I'll keep hunting!

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Friday 11 January 19 23:12 GMT (UK)  »
Annie I just found that reference and that's way before my Hugh Macdonald's time. That story refers to when Bonnie Prince Charlie was escaping.

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Friday 11 January 19 23:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annie,

No, I don't have that particular reference. Where did you find it? My surprise was to find him referred to as Captain in the Cambrian newspaper in Swansea in several advertisements for home effects auctions and birth announcements. They date from 1836 (when they first arrived in Swansea) to 1843 (when they left for Liverpool). I know it refers to "my" Hugh Macdonald of Boisdale because the addresses match up to addresses on his children's birth certificates (one of which is the exact birth date/address of my husband's gg grandmother born in 1842)

Sandra

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 20:33 GMT (UK)  »

Here is the link as requested:

https://tiesthatbindsite.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/hugh-macdonald-iv-of-boisdale/

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Glamorganshire / Re: Hugh Macdonald alias Captain Macdonald or Captain M'Donald
« on: Thursday 10 January 19 20:31 GMT (UK)  »

Hello again everyone and a special hello to you Annie!

Yes, that link is my genealogy blog called Ties That Bind. I think you may be on to something about the shipping because Hugh lived in South Uist, Scotland, Plymouth, Swansea and finally Liverpool. What's confusing is at no other time in his life did he ever get referred to, or refer to himself, as Captain. I know his father had ships that went from Scotland to York at one time for kelp.

Sandra

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