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Oxfordshire / Re: William Puffett c1810 Filkins
« on: Friday 31 January 25 07:44 GMT (UK)  »
As a descendant of Wm P and Sarah Baker I know we have a DNA connection to a family in Iowa who claim descent from Hy P and Sabina Cooke. They did their test through Ancestry. Another problem is there were two Sabinas in Filkins/Brodwell at the same time.

What we haven't got is a DNA connection to the current Puffett/Buffetts who can positively trace their line back before Henry and Sabina.

With parish registers I have found husbands tended to go out from their home parish to marry and the woman was an incomer to the husband's parish. I found one marriage more than ten miles from his home. He was one of several men from the parish who went that ten miles to find a wife.

Cheers

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Argyllshire / Re: Niel Black (1804-1880) Argyllshire-Australia: 'Black' Ancestors/Family Tree
« on: Friday 24 January 25 04:31 GMT (UK)  »
I would recommend two books for any one interested in Niel Black: Men of Yesterday by Margaret Kiddle. Published 1961. (Review from JStor : https://www.jstor.org/stable/3020331).

The other book is Maggie Black's Up Came a Squatter: Niel Black of Glenormiston, 1839-1880. Maggie is a great grand daughter of Niel Black. The book was published 2016.

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Argyllshire / Re: Niel Black (1804-1880) Argyllshire-Australia: 'Black' Ancestors/Family Tree
« on: Friday 24 January 25 04:18 GMT (UK)  »
The ADB piece on Niel Black is wrong on several counts. NB was not the second son but the youngest of 6 sons and 3 daughters born to Archibald Black and Janet McCannanich. The youngest three were Niel, Walter and Archibald. The oldest was Duncan who was 21 when he inherited the two Black tenancies in Cowall, Kilbridemor and Kilbridebeg, when his father fell off his horse and died in 1808. There was also two sons John, one of whom died and was replace in the family line by another, and three daughters, one of whom was Jean, married Lachlan McNiel.
The family of Janet were low ranked heritors. They had been taxgathers for the Campbells in the late Medieval and were granted land-so minor nobility. The house is still in existence, I visited it in 2010.
The house in which Niel was born is still extant too, as is the farm. The current owner sent me some photos of the place.

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Argyllshire / Re: inverchaolin
« on: Wednesday 11 August 10 05:59 BST (UK)  »
Danielle, today I posted that book I promised you. You should get it next week.  Kevin

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Argyllshire / Re: inverchaolin
« on: Wednesday 11 August 10 02:46 BST (UK)  »
Thanks. I would appreciate a copy of the paper. I am very grateful to gc1660 for her knowledge of the area. She is a fantastic source of info which is hard to get 15000 kms from Cowal, and simply hard to get.

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Argyllshire / Re: inverchaolin
« on: Friday 30 July 10 03:31 BST (UK)  »
gc1660, thanks a lot. The Eligmore reference comes from Pigots commercial directory 1837-8 for Argyll. I found it in Google books. I am researching a man named Neil Black who came to Australia, but who held lands in Glen Shira and I have seen docs in the SNA in Edinburgh where are mentioned Benbuy and Glen Shira, and farms at Ardentraive, Couston, Glenmassan, Glentarsan, and others. I am trying to identify these places on the current OS 25000 for the area, and on the old 25 inch and 6 inch maps available on line. When he was born in 1804 his father farmed Kilbridemore and Kilbridebeg near Glendaruel, a lease his brother Duncan inherited and which ended with a lot of nastiness between the family and Duncan Campbell in 1812. Campbell died soon after, and I have lost the certain track of DB. I am trying to reconstruct a 200 year old landscape at the Tacksman level, in other words who owned the land and who leased it, down through the layers of sublease to the farmers. Thanks again for your help.

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Argyllshire / Re: inverchaolin
« on: Thursday 29 July 10 15:03 BST (UK)  »
Good so far. Who held these lands in the 19thC? Also  have come on a place called Benbuy and have no idea where it could be. Have you heard of it? Also Eligmore, which I think is Glen Shira. Pigot's 1837. Is there any source for the namesof all the farms around the place? Thanks

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Argyllshire / Re: inverchaolin
« on: Wednesday 28 July 10 14:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the info gc1660. Did the Curries hold the land from Argyll? Argyll held his land from the monarch of the time, but did it extend as far as the places we are talking about? There seemed to be Campbells under every stone; they held Glendaruel in the early 19th C, one dying in about 1803, his successor in 1812. Would you have any idea whether the tacks for this land still exist and where? Did the Curries send any one to Australia, there are some who were squatters in the Port Phillip district of NSA(now Victoria).

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Argyllshire / Re: Harkness
« on: Wednesday 28 July 10 07:25 BST (UK)  »
I have a document or two from the SNA in Edinburgh that suggests the Harknesses were at Garrochoran on 29th March 1809. The Thomas Harkness the document refers to was a Factor loco tutoris for the children of Archibald Black who died October 1806. I have also seen the will of Thomas's father which has him as a Tacksman. Looking at the map there are two houses in close proximity, one either side of the B836, one is now on the OS 25000 map called Woodside, the other is Ardtaraig. Balliemore is farther up the road at the head of Loch Striven. Tarsan Burn is now the dam Loch Tarsan, but there used to be a farm in the Glen called Glentarsan. Was it inundated? I don't understand who the landlords of these places were, who held them from the Duke of Argyll?

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