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Banffshire / Re: PETERKIN Banff/Fordyce/Portsoy
« on: Tuesday 17 April 12 18:49 BST (UK)  »
I was at Portsoy Public School in the 1940's with Anne and Sheila Peterkin, who were living in a house on Church Street with their mother, but they came from Broughty Ferry and went back there later.  My mother used to say that their father had been her boyfriend, long before, so he must have lived in Portsoy.

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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: JANE/JEAN GOODBRAND-Fordyce
« on: Thursday 13 January 11 15:24 GMT (UK)  »
Jane Goodbrand was also called Jean.  My gt grandmother.  I was named for her, as was my cousin, at one remove, Jean Law, of Kirkcudbright.  There are still Laws in Kirkcudbright; they have a bicycle shop.

  Jane m William Sutherland & her daughter, Mary, married my grandfather, Capt. George Mair of Portsoy.

 I suppose that another of her daughters married John Law of Kirkcudbright.  I also suppose that her daughter, Ann, married in Portsoy because I remember a gt aunt called Annie.  I know that there were relations in Sandend because my grandmother used to take me there to visit.  Also at Deskford, and at Brodiesord farm in Fordyce.

Is this of any help ?

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Banffshire / Re: Lost at Sea 1887
« on: Friday 07 January 11 10:12 GMT (UK)  »
Well, hello, Cousin Diane.  My grandmother, Mary Sutherland,  later Mair, would have been Bathia's half-sister then ?  I wish now that my grandma had spoken more about her family.  I lived with her when I was a child because my mother fell under a London bus when I was a baby and never fully recovered.  So it was Portsoy for me for a long time.   I know that there were a lot of Sutherland relations and that the Findlaters came into it all somehow.  I used to be hauled off to Cornhill and Deskford and Tillienaught and Sandend to visit people but I never knew just who was related to who.       

Yes, I live in Halifax NS.               Jean 

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Banffshire / Re: Lost at Sea 1887
« on: Sunday 02 January 11 19:24 GMT (UK)  »
My grandmother,  Mary Sutherland, was the daughter of Jane Goodbrand.  She had five children, Helen Mair - my  mother -  Mary Mair, Georgina Mair, William Mair, John (Jack) Mair;  my mother had two daughters, the others had no children.

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