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Title: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: specialkg on Saturday 29 August 09 08:58 BST (UK)

On my grandfather's marriage and my father's birth certificate the address given is Home Farm, Findrassie.  The dates 1917 and 1918.

Can anyone tell me if this farm still exists and if there is a photo on geograph.org.  I couldn't  find Findrassie.

Thanks
Keith

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: Little Nell on Saturday 29 August 09 12:24 BST (UK)

Closest I can get:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=778875

The farm may now be called something slightly different.

Nell

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: IMBER on Saturday 29 August 09 14:32 BST (UK)

If you Google there are various references to be found.  This one gives maps the present farm in great detail:

http://public.moray.gov.uk/publicaccess/propdb/property/property_searchform.aspx

Denis

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: specialkg on Saturday 29 August 09 16:48 BST (UK)

Thanks Little Nell and Imber for taking the time to reply.

The photo of the farm that Little Nell gave me could well fit with a photo I have of my grandparents and two of their children in a walled garden taken about 1926.

Thanks both for your time.

Keith

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: stuartroxy on Sunday 11 October 09 12:53 BST (UK)

Keith,

If you post the photo, and you wish, I'll nip out to Findrassie and try to get you a current view.

stuartroxy

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: specialkg on Sunday 11 October 09 22:06 BST (UK)

Thanks for your offer but I will leave that line of research at the moment as the photo I refer to was taken within a walled garden.  I will keep that until some time in the future when we can perhaps visit the area personally.

I really appreciate your offer.

Betty

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: Elgin Quine on Sunday 29 November 09 18:09 GMT (UK)

hi there .... can anyone help with the name of Mrs Pease's sister who stayed at Home Farm Findrassie in the 1960s?
My cousin lived in one of the farm cottages at the time and the woman made a sulpture of him for a competition... she had promised to give it to him but it won and was kept for display. As a special gift she made another of a farm worker and lamb for him...
On a recent visit the piece in question ,being on display, was a topic of conversation and I had suggested that through the internet we might be able to find out the artist's name and perhaps even locate the original piece... so here goes!
As part of the visit we passed down the Findrassie road and stopped to look at the old farm buildings.... not a lot had changed and brought back happy childhood memories...
hope to hear from someone soon
Linda :-)

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: anm on Monday 30 November 09 17:38 GMT (UK)

Hi Linda

Mrs Pease`s sister was Margaret Alice Hudson, she died in 1989

Hope that helps

Ann

Title: Re: Home Farm, Findrassie
Post by: Elgin Quine on Monday 30 November 09 19:08 GMT (UK)

Many thanks.... now to find the sculpture of my cousin :-)

Linda