Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - aricandec

Pages: [1] 2
1
Lancashire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Manchester Mystery of surname link
« on: Sunday 18 December 22 08:13 GMT (UK)  »
Belle, Margaret, Anne
All sounds perfectly possible as WJS 's wife Margaret was not in a happy marriage.  Somewhere I have such a sad letter to her brother complaining of her treatment when WJS had drunk too much (often), saying she was staying in the marriage for the sake of their two daughters. Although both their daughters married neither of them had children, so no DNA trail there.
WJS was born in Forfar, Angus, 3rd son (4th child of 6) of Andrew Sinclair and Margaret McLeay both of Inverness-shire.  His medical degree was from Aberdeen in the 1870s and he took up practice in Manchester thereafter.
Somewhere I do have a photo which may well be of WJS with my grandfather/great-uncle (brothers of Margaret) - not very tall, up to the shoulder of my relation who was about 6 foot tall.  Needless to say, no-one has written on the back identifying the pair - the problem with many of my family photos.
When did the money transfer to William?  Margaret died 1935 in Didsbury so was it a mention in her will?  I also am interested in the 'Belle' name as one of William's half-sisters was known in the family as Auntie Belle which could mean that there was contact between them.  WJS died in 1913 in Manchester.

2
Lancashire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Manchester Mystery of surname link
« on: Saturday 17 September 22 23:20 BST (UK)  »
I find all this fascinating!  Margaret Haddon, who married W J Sinclair, was not in a happy marriage.  I came across a letter to her brother John, complaining about her husband's drinking habits but saying she'd stay in the marriage  for their daughters' sake,  No, there were no grandchildren, and Auntie Bell was a lovely person but my vague memory of her was a formal lady.  She and her sister, Maggie, used to come up to the Borders each summer and her cousin, my father, a solicitor, used to talk to them with myself firmly in another room left with 'Pilgrim's Progress' as suitable reading material!!  Later Maggie left their holiday home to my aunt.  Yes, Agnes Goodfellow Haddon was Margaret's older sister.  And yes, WJ married my gt aunt in Scotland in 1883.  And yes, Honeyburn is the family farm - still in the family, and theirs is not the only family that called their English homes that, so I conclude it must have been a happy place (still is).  WJ had 5 siblings which I'm sure you've also discovered, 3 born in Forfar as he was, and two in Laurencekirk.  His parents came from Inverness-shire.  Jane married G C Burnett, Angus remained a bachelor (I think), Donald married Elizabeth McHardy and died in USA, Ann died as a 10 year old in Laurencekirk, Alexander married Jane Hunter and died in Troon, Ayrshire.  I'm sure by now you've probably got all this but I have a little more if you haven't

3
Northumberland / Re: Crazy John (Jack) Hall
« on: Saturday 26 February 11 12:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thought he was 'Mad' Jack Hall!!  Family originated up Redesdale - not far from Otterburn.  The hotel that calls itself Otterburn Castle is a rebuild on an old site.  Castle ruins on the A68 still very prominent.
My descent is from Jacob Hall c.1727, Kirkwhelpington - 14 children.  Father probably James and his father, by family legend, Mad Jack.  Family tree (in book form) from him, through son Thomas (b.1768) to current done by a family member about 30 years ago.  Now trying to move back from James (possible wife Elizabeth Robson) to prove descent.
Enid

4
Devon / Re: Henry Roger COLE and descendants
« on: Sunday 15 August 10 23:01 BST (UK)  »
Interesting sequence of postings but I notice that there's a problem with the name of Henry's wife!!
Henry Roland Cole married Jane Sedgwick Lean.  She was daughter of Francis Lean and Rebecca Sedgwick, born in Stonehouse, Plymouth about 1802.
  The 1851 Census shows her at home with 3 children, Purser's Wife R.N.  Also in the household is one of her sisters, Alice Sarah Lean who was born 'At Sea' but was baptised in Stoke Dameral.
Enid

5
Roxburghshire / Re: Hawick and the Great War 1914-1919
« on: Friday 11 September 09 19:04 BST (UK)  »
I presume that all who have an interest in Hawick know about the Hawick Work Book - a .pdf  document on-line at http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/scott/book.pdf full of useful (and accurate) info - including that either the Scott or the Inglis family lived there during WW1
Enid

6
Selkirkshire / Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« on: Wednesday 26 August 09 16:21 BST (UK)  »
Don't really think that family group were Dissenters as all their children were christened in the CoS church.  I think - as you suggest - that the registers were deficient OR just as possible, they were married OK but refused to pay to have their names entered.  That apparently was very common practice around that period as the church /govenrment were (once again) trying to raise money by taxing necessary items and their subjects were registering their displeasure by not paying up.  I may say, that I can't locate his mother's second marriage either to John Dunn between 1747 and 1750, but again the subsequent children all appear in the register!
Enid

7
Roxburghshire / Re: Hawick and the Great War 1914-1919
« on: Monday 24 August 09 10:15 BST (UK)  »
Charters, Ellliot, b.Hawick, Roxburgh, enlisted Hawick, Roxburgh, 29526, Pte., Died of Wounds., F & F, 27/5/1918.
Not much more info than your already have, I suspect.  BUT looking on Ancestry his record states he died of wounds in Aldershot:
Name: Elliot Charters
Birth Place: Hawick, Roxburgh  Residence: Hawick, Roxburgh 
Death Date: 27 May 1918 Enlistment Location: Hawick, Roxburgh 
Rank: Private    Regiment: King's Own Scottish Borderers 
Battalion: 7/8th Battalion.    Number: 29526 
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds    Theatre of War: Aldershot 
(F&F = France and Flanders)
Enid

8
Selkirkshire / Re: Selkirk Dissenters / the Associate Synod / Dr. George Lawson
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 23:20 BST (UK)  »
All this talk of Dissenters may explain why I can't find the marriage of Andrew Haddon and Christian Ruecastle which should have happened at the end of 1771 (she dumped a Hawick man after the banns were called in Sepr.1771) and went off and presumably married as the subsequent children (1772 onward) were to the lawfully wedded...! and born in Selkirk, Edinburgh and Paisley.
Enid

9
Roxburghshire / Re: Hawick and the Great War 1914-1919
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 22:27 BST (UK)  »
Yes, same book, very dilapidated state, in the local auction room in Hawick.  I also have relations in it but had to use the local library's copy to get the info.  Nice as it has photos too of some of the deceased.

I do have a copy of the HMSO: Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919, Part 30 - The King's Own Scottish Borderers.  Not so easy to use as it is arranged by Battalion and covers the whole lot which might be useful to anyone who is sure their ancestor was in the KOSB when he died.
Enid

Pages: [1] 2