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Scotland (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Scotland => Inverness => Topic started by: Waughhunter on Sunday 23 February 25 17:39 GMT (UK)
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My father Robert Waugh (1928-1988) and his older brothers William (1921-2019) and Alexander (1925-1997) were all "farmed out" to live with the Fraser family on a croft in Kiltarlity sometime after the death of my grandmother in early 1929. I know that they attended the local school (I think Tomnacross is the name) which I visited in 1997 and the head showed me a record book with my father's name but this was long before smartphones so I have no proof of this. I know almost nothing about my father's childhood, other than that he attended the wedding of a Hugh Fraser. I met someone named Mary Fraser on that 1997 visit and she let me have a copy of a photo, which I believe to be of that wedding, but it was unfortunately lost during a later house move. I know that my father returned to his birthplace of Glasgow some time after the death of his father in 1942 but I believe he did make at least one return trip to Kiltarlity thereafter. His older brothers ended up living in England. It is highly unlikely that anyone who remembers my father in Kiltarlity is still alive now, but I wonder if there is any way to access his school entry records online. Census data from the 1930s is not yet available. Does anyone know of an online repository for such info from that school?
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Given that your father's and his brothers' attendance at the school was less than 100 years ago, I very much doubt that the school records will be available online.
The most likely place for any such records to be is the Highland Archives in Inverness. I suggest contacting them. https://www.highlifehighland.com/archives-service/
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Your best approach will be to contact the Highlife Highland Archive Centre (https://www.highlifehighland.com/highland-archive-centre) in Inverness, who hold school records amongst other materials. Contact them with your enquiry via their contact us page (https://www.highlifehighland.com/contact-us), which gives the email address you should use to ask about the school records you are looking for (you can also email the Archives Centre directly by replacing the "info" part of the email address given on that page with the word archives. There may well be a fee to pay (which can be paid online when they accept your research request). They are very helpful. I used their services a few years ago to find my maternal grandfather's record of admission (1862) from the admission registers for Farraline Park School in Inverness.
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Thank you both. That is very helpful.
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This from The Inverness Courier Friday 31st August 1956:
Fraser-Macdonald
The Rev. Mr Dunnet, Kiltarlity Free Church of Scotland, officiated at the wedding in Drummossie Hotel, Inverness, on 23rd August, of Miss Joan Margaret Mac-donald, younger daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Macdonald, Tomchoin, Abriachan, and Mr Hugh Fraser, son of the late Mr and Mrs Fraser, 25 Camaultmuir, Kiltarlity.
The bride, given away by her brother-in-law, Mr D. J. Praser, Glebe, Kiltarlity, looked charming in a dress of cream figured brocade and her veil was held in position by a head-dress of orange blossom.
She carried a bouquet of yellow roses. The bridesmaid was Miss Etta Fraser, Inverness, and the best man was Mr R. Waugh, Glas-gow. At the reception many congratulatory telegrams were read from at home and abroad, and later, when leaving on her honeymoon, Mrs Fraser wore a lemon dress and oatmeal coat with brown accessories.
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My apologies for the delayed reply but I have only just seen your post. Thank you so much. Yes that Mr R Waugh would have been my dad, Robert.