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The Common Room / Re: FREE SCOTLANDS PEOPLE OFFER AGAIN
« on: Saturday 02 April 16 20:50 BST (UK) »
Thank you to the OP for this. I got my 20 credits and I know exactly how I'm going to use them.
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Aberdeenshire / Re: Ross Family of Midmar
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 17:45 BST (UK) »
Sorry for the dealy in replying, but thank you to everyone who has helped with this thread. I would appear to have plenty of reading to do and it would appear that my Ross family are quite the characters, lol.
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Kincardineshire / Re: Woodston in the Parish of St Cyrus
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 17:41 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dod.
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Kincardineshire / Re: Bridge of Leppie, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire - Mitchell family c 1871.
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 17:39 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your help. I managed to find a location for the property (well 2 actually as it would appear that in modern times it is a street about 1/2 mile from the original location of the property, which is now demolished.
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Kincardineshire / Bridge of Leppie, Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire - Mitchell family c 1871.
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 11:06 BST (UK) »
I hope someone can help me pin down the location of the property my ancestor, John L Gordon was born at in 1871. He is my great-grandfather and was born illegitimately at this place in Laurencekirk. His mother, Elizabeth Gordon was also illegimate, being the daughter of Helen Gordon and William Pirie (some list her as Elizabeth Pirie, but I have never found a marriage entry for Helen and William). By 1871, Helen had married John Mitchell and had a son (David) and daughter (Helen). They were still residing at Bridge of Leppie.
The place itself is listed as "Bridge of Loppie" per Ancestry's transcripton. I have looked on Google Earth until I am cross-eyed and been unable to locate it. There are so many farms dotted around the area that don't seem to be named on the map that I could be overlooking it.
Anyone ever heard of it before? I don't even see a Leppie Burn or Loppie Burn on the map. Even if someone doesn't have an image of the place, directions to it on a map would be gratefully received.
Thank you for your help.
The place itself is listed as "Bridge of Loppie" per Ancestry's transcripton. I have looked on Google Earth until I am cross-eyed and been unable to locate it. There are so many farms dotted around the area that don't seem to be named on the map that I could be overlooking it.
Anyone ever heard of it before? I don't even see a Leppie Burn or Loppie Burn on the map. Even if someone doesn't have an image of the place, directions to it on a map would be gratefully received.
Thank you for your help.
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Kincardineshire / Re: Woodston in the Parish of St Cyrus
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 10:37 BST (UK) »
Hi Jen,
Hope you're still a member. Just came across your original post today and the placename of Woodston jumped out at me as I have a connection to Nether Woodston (possibly an adjacent farm?)
John Duncan was born at Nether Woodston, St Cyrus in 1822. He is my 1st cousin 5x removed and the son of John Duncan and Ann Burn(s). I haven't got much on John as I haven't researched that line yet. What I do know is that he was born as I say in 1822 at Nether Woodston, lived in St Cyrus for a while, Aberdeen, showing up at Nelson Street in the 1891 census (by that time, another family related to mine was farming Nether Woodston (or not, as it is shown in the Ancestry transcription as Nether Warburton) - John Kinnear (born Garvock in 1848) and his mother, Ann Robbie (born Edzell c1808) and his sister, Ann Lindsay Kinnear (born Garvock 1845). I'm not sure if the two families are connected other than both having been on the farm 70-odd years apart.
The names of Sherret and Patullo are familiar to me as I too have come across them, but alas they are not (I think) related to me, however I do have some Sherrets in Benholm and Johnshaven (namely Margaret, born Benholm in 1816, who married my 3x Great-Grand Uncle, Thomas Watt at Benholm in 1842), which I believe is the next parish along the coast, so there may be a connection a few more generations back, but I'm not going to be actively researching her unless there is a link further back that Watt line to the Sherrets. One of my cousins is related to the Sherrets on both sides of his tree, but not sure whether they are your St. Cyrus ones or not (PM me if you are interested in getting in touch with him and I can contact him to give him your email adress).
Hope you're still a member. Just came across your original post today and the placename of Woodston jumped out at me as I have a connection to Nether Woodston (possibly an adjacent farm?)
John Duncan was born at Nether Woodston, St Cyrus in 1822. He is my 1st cousin 5x removed and the son of John Duncan and Ann Burn(s). I haven't got much on John as I haven't researched that line yet. What I do know is that he was born as I say in 1822 at Nether Woodston, lived in St Cyrus for a while, Aberdeen, showing up at Nelson Street in the 1891 census (by that time, another family related to mine was farming Nether Woodston (or not, as it is shown in the Ancestry transcription as Nether Warburton) - John Kinnear (born Garvock in 1848) and his mother, Ann Robbie (born Edzell c1808) and his sister, Ann Lindsay Kinnear (born Garvock 1845). I'm not sure if the two families are connected other than both having been on the farm 70-odd years apart.
The names of Sherret and Patullo are familiar to me as I too have come across them, but alas they are not (I think) related to me, however I do have some Sherrets in Benholm and Johnshaven (namely Margaret, born Benholm in 1816, who married my 3x Great-Grand Uncle, Thomas Watt at Benholm in 1842), which I believe is the next parish along the coast, so there may be a connection a few more generations back, but I'm not going to be actively researching her unless there is a link further back that Watt line to the Sherrets. One of my cousins is related to the Sherrets on both sides of his tree, but not sure whether they are your St. Cyrus ones or not (PM me if you are interested in getting in touch with him and I can contact him to give him your email adress).
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The Common Room / Re: Number of generations in a family where ancestor was still alive in 1837
« on: Saturday 05 March 16 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Well.....
I'm the youngest in my family (19 years between me and my nearest sibling), so my grandparents were born in the 1880s-1890s. The largest gap between the two is my mum's parents (granddad born 1888 and grandmother born 1899). They married in 1921 and had twins who died shortly after birth quite soon afterwards then there was a gap of about 6 years before my uncle was born and my mum born two years later, in 1930. On my dad's side he's the youngest boy (two sisters younger than him) born in 1929 and he and my mum married in 1950. His dad was born 1891 and his mum 1894 and they married in 1916.
I have worked out that I have about 2 lines on my dad's side of the tree where I'm a bit stuck as they were illegitimate (there were 3 but I cracked on just last month). And because I know less about my mum's side of the family, there are about 3 lines where I'm either stuck or not sure I have the right family.
I'm the youngest in my family (19 years between me and my nearest sibling), so my grandparents were born in the 1880s-1890s. The largest gap between the two is my mum's parents (granddad born 1888 and grandmother born 1899). They married in 1921 and had twins who died shortly after birth quite soon afterwards then there was a gap of about 6 years before my uncle was born and my mum born two years later, in 1930. On my dad's side he's the youngest boy (two sisters younger than him) born in 1929 and he and my mum married in 1950. His dad was born 1891 and his mum 1894 and they married in 1916.
I have worked out that I have about 2 lines on my dad's side of the tree where I'm a bit stuck as they were illegitimate (there were 3 but I cracked on just last month). And because I know less about my mum's side of the family, there are about 3 lines where I'm either stuck or not sure I have the right family.
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The Common Room / Re: Anyone good at railway occupations?
« on: Thursday 25 February 16 12:38 GMT (UK) »
Sranmapstone,
That'd make sense as dad said he was a signalman and he is listed on at least one census and one birth entry as a railway surface man.
That'd make sense as dad said he was a signalman and he is listed on at least one census and one birth entry as a railway surface man.
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Aberdeenshire / Re: Work/poor house
« on: Monday 22 February 16 00:30 GMT (UK) »
Not sure if this helps, but it may give you some information about the Poorhouse itself.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Peterhead/
Good luck and happy hunting
Kay
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Peterhead/
Good luck and happy hunting
Kay