Author Topic: NINIANSON of Shetland.  (Read 4000 times)

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Re: NINIANSON of Shetland.
« Reply #9 on: Friday 21 October 16 14:02 BST (UK) »
Lizci, this will be after the Great Famine of the 1840's, it took 20 years for Shetland to recover.

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Re: NINIANSON of Shetland.
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 22 October 16 15:30 BST (UK) »
Thanks Skoosh, they were certainly hard times - no wonder people took the chance to emigrate.
Gilchrist, Twaddle, Jamieson - LANARKSHIRE; Moffat, Irving - DUMFRIESSHIRE; Ninian - FIFE/EDINBURGH/DUNDEE; Campbell - ARGYLL; Johnston - BERWICKSHIRE/ROXBURGHSHIRE/LANARKSHIRE; Swanston - BERWICKSHIRE; Pirie - ABERDEENSHIRE; Cameron - FORFARSHIRE/ABERDEENSHIRE; Alexander - FORFARSHIRE; Taylor - LANCASHIRE; Dee, Rudd, Vasseur - LONDON; Johnson, Wooding, Linger - BEDFORDSHIRE; Simmons, Lane - DEVON.