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Banffshire / Re: Buckie's Miln
« on: Wednesday 01 July 15 23:30 BST (UK)  »
A wee bit of information that I recently picked up about Buckies Mill.  I was having a read through the early Kirk Session minute books in Registers House when I came across an a couple of entries in 1728.

Basically the Session are trying to secure a bond or loan from the Laird of Glenbervie. In the minutes they then refer to the laird as the Laird of Buckie or simply Buckie.
I'm not sure if this was the 6th or 7th Laird of Buckie...both seemed to have married Burnets.

Presumably the Mill was built (or owned) by one of these Lairds and became known as Buckies Mill.

http://www.patrickspeople.co.uk/files/2342.htm
I suspect that it must have been the earlier 6th Laird as the "New Mill" was built just downstream and appears on the Roy 1747-52 maps.

Graeme



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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: E M Cornwall Aberdeen Photographer
« on: Saturday 12 May 12 19:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi thanks for pinning him down that is really helpful. Photographic collectors are some times able to pin down the years that a particular card design/logo was used.

The face side shows Mary Walker born 1842.


I think that she looks like she is her late teens early twenties in the photo so that fits very well with the identified time frame......though it would be good to narrow it down a bit..... :)

Thanks again

Graeme

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / E M Cornwall Aberdeen Photographer
« on: Saturday 12 May 12 15:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi Folks trying to date a photograph. It is a CDV by E M Cornwall, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. I think it may be 1870's. Is anyone able to date the photo more accurately from the logo on the rear of the card?



Thanks for looking

Graeme

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Kincardineshire / Re: Walkers in Kincardine and Aberdeen
« on: Friday 08 July 11 23:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gordon

Here is our common ancestor, William Walker, in the graveyard of the Caterline Episcopalian Church.


No photos of William but here is his wife Mary Blackie.



Graeme

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Kincardineshire / Re: Walkers in Kincardine and Aberdeen
« on: Friday 08 July 11 00:18 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gordon. This just Graeme W under a pseudonym! ;) I'm trying find out if anyone knows how to tie our Alexander who was at Buckies Mill with all the other Walkers who were living in the Mill next door and at a couple of adjacent farms. If we could put this story together it may provide links to the other Walkers in Kincardine and Aberdeen. Who knows there may end up being truth in the Macpherson story?

Graeme

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Kincardineshire / Walkers in Kincardine and Aberdeen
« on: Wednesday 08 June 11 20:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi folks
I have been researching my Walker ancestory as back as possible. So far I have records going back to around 1700 in Glenbervie. The family were nearly always millers and this has greatly eased the process. I have found other Walkers (including some millers) in and around the county who I cant connect to my line but I am sure that there must be a distant tie in somewhere! Through my searches, I have met a cousin in Canada who has gone down the DNA route and this has provided some sort of link to (Quakers who immigrated from Aberdeen to America). But it all seems a bit ropey....my Walkers were fiesty episcopalians.
So my question is simply....are there other Walkers out there with Kincardine(Aberdeenshire) backgrounds who are trying to work out the same problems?

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Kincardineshire / Re: Royal connection - Middleton
« on: Sunday 01 May 11 22:51 BST (UK)  »
I agree...my Kincardine Midldeton died drunk in a ditch!!

GW

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Kincardineshire / Re: Longmuir Kincardineshire
« on: Saturday 16 October 10 07:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi there
I picked up this thread on a google search on Brand's in Kincardine. I am principally chasing up the Walker references, but to try and find the links between the branches back then I am trying to look at the associated families.
My Walkers were at Buckies Mill but I am sure that I must be related to the Walkers in New Mill and at Jacksbank (so I'm particularly interested in the Margaret Walker connection).
My Anne Brand was married to Alexander Walker and she died 23/10/1740.  Alexanders son (also Alexander) also married a Brand, hence my need to piece together the Brand family.
My understanding of the OPR at this time (which may be flawed!) is that where the register says that a wedding or a christening was "witnessed",  it almost certainly confirms that they were episcopalians not attending the official church of Scotland. Weddings and christenings in the official church were recorded as "in the face of the congregation".

Graeme

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