1871 census look up please - Farquhar

[Ditsy]

Could someone look up 1871 census for Fordyce, Banffshire please.  I am looking for May Farquhar (b. 1829) and his wife Ann (b. 1832) + family members.  I have looked this up on Ancestry but it only gives limited info.  Their son Robert Milline Farquhar (my great grandfather) was a mariner and I wondered if others in the family did similar work.

Many thanks.

[hume]

Hi Ditsy,

Here you go;
Residence: North High Street, Portsoy, Banffshire
May Farquhar, m, head, 42, mason's labourer, Portsoy, Banffshire
Ann ", f, wife, 39, -, Portsoy, Banffshire
May ", m, son, 15, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Ann ", f, dau., 14, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
James ", m, son, 11, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Alexander ", m, son, 10, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
George ", m, son, 8, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
John Watson ", m, son, 5, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Robert Milne ", m, son, 2, labourer's son, Portsoy, Banffshire
William Alexander ", m, son, 2 months, labourer's son, Portsoy, Banffshire
Jane Mitchell, f, mother-in-law, 82, paupr, Portsoy, Banffshire

And in 1881 too;
Residence: North High St, Portsoy, Banffshire
May Farquhar, m, head, 51, fisherman, Portsoy, Banffshire
Anne ", f, wife, 49, -, Portsoy, Banffshire
Alexander ", m, son, 30, labourer, Portsoy, Banffshire
Anne ", f, dau., 24, -, Portsoy, Banffshire
John Watson ", m, son, 15, seaman, Portsoy, Banffshire
Robert Milne ", m, son 13, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
William Minty ", m, son, 11, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Charlotte Murray ", f, dau., 6, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Martha Jane ", f, dau., 4, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire

hume24

[Ditsy]

  Many thanks for the information.  The entry for Jane, the mother in law, has paupr next to it.  Does this mean what I think it does?

[hume]

Hi again,

Yes, that's what was given as "occupation". I always look at the positive, though - there could be parish records for Jane that may give you more details to her husband (as it looks as though she was a widow) and/or her parents. If not, there's always her death certificate to find.

hume24

[Ditsy]

Hello again,

Sorry to be a nuisance, but are parish records available on line? 


Ditsy

[hume]

Not that I'm aware of. Hopefully someone else will pop onto this thread and inform us both.

hume24

[GDub71]

Hi Ditsy,

I decided to join this board just because of you. His name was Hay Farquhar, not May. He was my GT GT Gt Grandfather, and I assume that if Robert Milne Farquhar was your Gt Grandfather then your Grandmother must have been Kate Farquhar, who often used to come and stay at Fordyce with my Gt Grandmother. My Gt Granny called him Captain Bob.

There's not many people will be able to tell you more about the Farquhar family than myself I'm afraid, so feel free to E-mail me at Moderator comment: email address removed - please pass personal information by PM

By the way, from that 1881 census:

Residence: North High St, Portsoy, Banffshire
Hay Farquhar, m, head, 51, fisherman, Portsoy, Banffshire
Anne ", f, wife, 49, -, Portsoy, Banffshire
Alexander ", m, son, 30, labourer, Portsoy, Banffshire
Anne ", f, dau., 24, -, Portsoy, Banffshire
John Watson ", m, son, 15, seaman, Portsoy, Banffshire
Robert Milne ", m, son 13, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
William Minty ", m, son, 11, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Charlotte Murray ", f, dau., 6, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire
Martha Jane ", f, dau., 4, scholar, Portsoy, Banffshire


^Martha was my Gt Gt Grandmother, she married an Alexander Riach.

[Ditsy]

   Hi there

This is fantastic news, how exciting.  Will get in touch soon.

Thanks for contacting me

[Forfarian]

Sorry to be a nuisance, but are parish records available on line? 

Incidentally I don't know exactly what you inferred from Jane Mitchell's occupation, but a  pauper was specifically a person receiving support from the parish, not just someone who happened to be poor.

First of all you need to distinguish between the parish registers (that is, the registers of baptisms and marriage proclamations), the Kirk Session records, and the Parochial Board records.

The parish registers until 1854 are online and fully indexed at www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and they are most included in the International Genealogical Index.

The Kirk Session records are the minutes of the proceedings of the Kirk Session, which is the committee of minister and elders which runs the affairs of the church. They vary widely, but the sorts of things they record often include payments made to paupers from the poors fund of the kirk (until 1845).  The surviving Kirk Session minute books are mostly in the National Archives of Scotland www.nas.gov.uk. They have been digitised but so far they have not been indexed and are only available to view in Register House in Edinburgh. A small number are held in other archives.

The Parochial Boards were set up in 1845 following an Act of Parliament, and took over from the kirk the responsibility of looking after the poor of the parish. If the ones for the parish of Fordyce (the parish of which Portsoy is the largest - indeed the only - town) have survived, I would expect to find them in the Aberdeen City Archives http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/ACCI/nmsruntime/saveasdialog.asp?lID=6469&sID=1632. The books often contain internal indexes, and some of them have been indexed by the Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society www.anesfhs http://www.anesfhs.org.uk/ but other than that they are not online.