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I tried to attach a photo last night - obviously hasn't worked - will try again.
John

my transcription reads: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,all that new built brick messnage ( the word in the document looks more like mesonage - but I am guessing that messnage is what was intended]......of tenements (now divided into .......[indesciperable as is in a fold] )lately erected and built on a Toft (is this a village settlement?) or part or particle of ground whereon a tenement or cottage formerly stood together together with the yard garden orchard and barfside(?) thereunto belonging with their every of their appurtences containing altogether by estimation half an acre more or less situaute lying and being in the Parish of Halling........

I have had an interesting couple of days transcribing this long document. I have now photographed it in sections and if the above doesnt help I will work out how to attach the photo.

Many thanks for your interest.
John

Hello  Monica, No I don't subscribe to Ancestry. Is that Ancestry.com? I did have Granddad's date of birth but it is tremendous to now have the names of his siblings. I do have a photograph of a number of women all dressed up for the photograph. They may be his sisters.
Great grandad's drowning at sea explains why I could not trace him. With that info I may be able to find out more. I set all our Family History Society members a challenge for 2010 ~ To overcome some brickwall in their personal research. Mine was John Duncan Guthrie. Thanks to your help I am well on the way.
It must be an absolute pleasure researching with all the data at your disposal. I have spent the morning at the Pietermaritzburg archives trying to ascertain birth details, parents names of a lady in 1869. We have to troll the registers manually. No computer data base. Many , many thanks.
John

Hi Monica,
It was 1891 Scotland Census for the area(county) Midlothian.
Walter P Gray age 14. Born abt 1877.
I would need to subscribe to get more info. Having a bit of difficulty getting a debit card transaction accepted. I think UK banks are a bit wary of us 'poor' South Africans. And The Nigerian scamsters arnt helping matters.
I am Chairman of Natal inland Family history Society and would happily assist with any local research.
John