1871 Kirkcudbrightshire census - SINCLAIR

[Callywoods]

Good morning Annette!  A little geography lesson for you.
The 2 parishes of Anwoth and Girthon are next to each other, divided by the River Fleet which flows into the sea. In the late 1700s the mill town of Gatehouse of Fleet was built on the river Fleet so that half the town was in Anwoth and half in Girthon.  So your Beatties would have lived in the Anwoth part of the town (or on one of the farms in the parish)
Gatehouse is now little more than a village.
End of lesson!

[Annette Witherby]

Hi Callywoods,

THankyou for the lesson.    I looked in the Genuki site and found the parish map for Kirkcudbrightshire and would you believe there it was, the mis spelled Anworh.  But I know I will not make the mistake again.  Thankyou.

It is interesting to mark the different parishes with the names of each branch of the family and understand how their lives would have crossed.

Regards,  Annette

[Rachel Gould]

Hi! i know this reply is 12 years later! However, i was checking out our family tree history today with my gran and great uncle at the register house in edinburgh and we traced our family back to Farquahar and Mary Sinclair also! they were my great great great great great grandparents!

[Annette Witherby]

Hi Rachel,

I have sent you a Private message with info that may be interesting for you.

Thanks Rachael

[Rachel Gould]

Hi Annette,

I cant reply to your private message for some reason, it wont let me

I found out that it was his daughter Janet that is in our line.
We dont know much about siblings as we only had the day so we focused on parents etc,
I am young yes haha i am 20! My gran is 74 and has caught the bug for finding her ancestors!

Rachel

[Gadget]

Hi Rachel

You need to have made 3 posts to be able to send PMs, so if you reply to this (say anything!), you should be able to contact Annette.

Gadget

Welcome to Rootchat 

[Rachel Gould]

Ahh thank you!