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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Berwickshire => Topic started by: LezleyR on Monday 04 November 13 09:56 GMT (UK)

Title: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: LezleyR on Monday 04 November 13 09:56 GMT (UK)
Several of the threads on this board have kindly mentioned my website about the parish of Whitsome & Hilton.
Please note that I've changed provider, and the new URL is http://tudl1375.home.xs4all.nl/.
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: trystan on Monday 04 November 13 10:18 GMT (UK)
Hiya,

Thank you for letting us know of the new home for Whitsome 1 place study.

Could you please give us a link to one of the postings here on RootsChat that refers to your old site so that we can start mending the broken links.

Also, please feel free to provide a link to RootsChat under your family history sources page. RootsChat is the largest free family history forum site in the UK:
For RootsChat itself, it's www.RootsChat.com
For Scotland, it's www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?board=84.0


Many thanks,
Trystan
RootsChat Caretaker
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: LezleyR on Monday 04 November 13 11:45 GMT (UK)
The sticky at the top of the page about useful links has a link under Miscellaneous

Also http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=111255.0
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: colinskene on Monday 24 February 14 21:24 GMT (UK)
My great grandfather was born at Leetside, just outside Whitsome. He was William Spark born in 1882.

I don't suppose you have any info / photos from Leetside?
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: LezleyR on Wednesday 23 April 14 17:07 BST (UK)
Firstly, Colin, thanks to your query, I've managed to finally sort out the Nelsons! Thanks.

At the time that William was there, Leetside was part of the Blackadder Estate, owned by Sir George L.H. Boswall. The tenant had been James Herriot for a long time, by the mid 1880s it's shown as tenanted by "the heirs of the late James Herriot". As JH died in 1872, they were certainly taking their time about sorting out the estate! It was a middle-sized farm at that time, with a farmhouse and cottages for 5 workmen and their families (only Heads of Household shown on the Valuation Rolls, none of them were called Spark). Alison (William's mother) must have been fairly new to Leetside when he was born as the 1881 census shows her as being in Foulden.
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: colinskene on Wednesday 23 April 14 21:15 BST (UK)
I've also found Alison's marriage to George Johnstone at Whitsome Hill in 1885
Title: Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
Post by: LezleyR on Wednesday 07 May 14 11:41 BST (UK)
Many families seem to have moved annually, presumably as agricultural periods of employment expired. When you find an ag lab on the same farm for a while, it's obvious that the worker and farmer suited each other.