looking for MAGGIE GRANT, Bridge of Brown

[Jackson_search]

My McDonald ancestors ( orphaned ) were fostered by a Maggie Grant from about 1907 until about 1920.  They lived in the house featured on many postcards next to the Bridge of Brown, not far from Tomintoul.  The house may be run as a Tea Room today.

I would like to find any information about Maggie Grant. 

Thank you.

[prophetess]

I passed through the Bridge of Brown some years ago, I only remember the one house/ tea-room,

http://www.highland-holidays-scotland.co.uk/brown.php

looked on 1901 census but not found anything so far , but if i do will let you know
prop

[JustJean]

Ok folks.....I need the assistance of some local knowledge 

Looking at the link posted above I see this for an address:

Tea Room and Craft Shop, Bridge of Brown, Tomintoul
Ballindalloch, Banffshire

and then looking in my gazetteer I find:

Bridge of Avon - 1 1/2 miles SE of Ballindalloch, Banffshire and there is a Post office there.

So is the Bridge of Brown and the Bridge of Avon the same bridge?  My gazetteer doesn't have a listing for Bridge of Brown.......

And the reason why I ask? 

There is a DC on SP for a Margaret GRANT in 1946.  Her home was at Bridge of Avon, Kirkmichael.  She was single, age 69, and the postmistress.  Informant was a brother.

What are the odds? 

Here's hoping
Jean

[MonicaL]

Hi Jean

There was also a duplicate post on the Banff board...you and I are, I think, going the same way 

www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,221525.0.html

Regards.

Monica

[JustJean]

Hi Monica

Thanks for that!  It's got to be a possibility then!  Guess I need to read the whole board a little more frequently 

Best wishes
Jean

[prophetess]

Hi I have Also Just checked my Gazeteer of Scotland ( pubished in 1937) it an old one but quiet useful there is no Bridge of Brown listed , However the Bridge of Avon is,
Another old book I have on Scotland However dose mention the Bridge of Brown
(The Bridge of Brown Is in a most romantic spot, where the waterflows through a rocky channel some 2ft wide at the surface of the stream, and 8 or 10 ft wide at the upper surface of the rocks some 40 ft above the wate.
this part of the stream is known as the Linn of Brown. the road then climbs up over the hills to the east and crosses the Avon bye the bridge of Avon and there joins the road, via Strath Avon From Ballindalloch)
this book is another old one but i cannot find a date on it but suspect it may not be as old as the first.
I also have a mention of it in Ward Lock's Red Guide To Scotland, but in this book ( published 1970) it it listed as the Bridge of Broun, but apart form the first line of the fist and earlier book it gives little else,. the only one of the 3 books that mention the bridge of avon is the gazeteer, the other giude book have no mention at all of it.
Hope this is of some help to you
Sybil

[MonicaL]

  Sybil, after your last post with all the detail, I had one last go on Ancestry's new index for 1901 searching for a Grant/surname and address Bridge of Brown....I'm quite taken back (putting it mildly!) by what came up on the search result:

Maggie Grant    45, formerly domestic nurse, b. Inverness-Shire, Abernethy
Peter Fowler    23, nephew, Grocer Shopkeeper, b. Edinburh
Mary Christie    10, boarder, b. Glasgow
John Hannah    9, boarder, b. Glasgow
Robert Simpson    8, boarder, b. Glasgow
Archibald Smith 9, boarder, b. Glasgow

Address: Bridge Of Brown Cottage, Abernethy and Kincardine, Inverness-shire

She could be THE Maggie. We have the young boarders, from Glasgow....how it all fits in I do not know....

I know that in 1901 this Maggie is not in Tomintoul - but there are too many strong markers on this one.

Jackson, I'd be curious to know how the Tomintoul reference came in with the MacDonald children from Glasgow.

Regards.

Monica 

 

[prophetess]

Glad it helped your most welcome
Sybil

[Jackson_search]

Thank you everyone for your efforts.  It seems likely that we have THE Maggie Grant.  The link to the borders from Glasgow is curious.  When I thought of my Grandmother and her siblings being sent up to live with Maggie I guessed there might have been a family connection.  Perhaps a McDonald in the area .... or a Hinshaw .... but there may be another possibility worth considering.  The reference to Maggie being a nurse.  My Greatgrandmother Mary Ann Hinshaw had worked at the Western Infirmiry in Glasgow.