Aberdeenshire Newspaper Clippings

[John_Ellis]

Hello Kristy,

Appreciate i am extremely late to the conversation (A decade at least!), but i came across this forum whilst researching my family tree.

I can see a reference to my great x 2 grandfather James Ellis who lived on the hill of cotburn with his wife, Jessie (Formally Webster) and children, Duff, Bartlett, Alexander, George, Jessie, Mary, William and James around the time of your newspaper clippings.

I believe in later life he lived with the Cowie family in Udny and died there at the grand old age of 86 in 1928.

Do you have any references to the Ellis family in the book?

Many thnaks,

John Ellis

[KirstyG]

I'm afraid I no longer have access to the newspaper clippings, I had transcribed and posted a lot of what I had so searching this post/ this site should find anything I did have.

The local history centre in Elgin is an amazing resource and does have most of these papers in their archives. http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp

Good luck with your searches.
Kirsty

[GR2]

Hello Kristy,

Appreciate i am extremely late to the conversation (A decade at least!), but i came across this forum whilst researching my family tree.

I can see a reference to my great x 2 grandfather James Ellis who lived on the hill of cotburn with his wife, Jessie (Formally Webster) and children, Duff, Bartlett, Alexander, George, Jessie, Mary, William and James around the time of your newspaper clippings.

I believe in later life he lived with the Cowie family in Udny and died there at the grand old age of 86 in 1928.

Do you have any references to the Ellis family in the book?

Many thnaks,

John Ellis

Welcome to Rootschat. Here are some things I have just culled from the papers.

The People's Journal 31-5-1884:

At Station Hospital, Cairo, on the 5th inst., of
enteric fever, Private DUFF ELLIS, 1st B. Gordon
Highlanders, son of James Ellis, Cotburn Cottage,
Turrif, aged 21 years (New Zealand papers please
copy).

The Buchan Observer 29-4-1902:

                                                    Messrs Ellis
have sold their crofts at Hill of Cotburn to Mr
John Grant, Backhill of Seggat, Auchterless, and
have taken a lease of Cairnhill, in succession to
Mr Andrew Davidson, who goes to occupy the
desirable farms of Mains of Balmaud and White-
field, in an adjoining parish.

[John_Ellis]

Thank you for the reply.

Whilst researching, i came across this article in the British Newspaper Archive from 1912 that is quite interesting.

It was written by James Lawrence and called "Rambles in the north" published in the Banffshire reporter (I would presume a small local newspaper)

He is reminiscing about his childhood and walking through the Hill of Cotburn recalling come of the families that lived there.

There are mentions of the Ellis, Scorgies, Donalds, Duncans, Emslies, Hutchensons, Grevie, Mcgowan, Beenie, French, Morrison families to name a few.

Thanks,

John