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Midlothian / Re: Richard Hood 1819 • Inveresk, Midlothian, Scotland?
« on: Wednesday 26 February 25 05:49 GMT (UK)  »
Yes this is the same person. David Hood and Jean Steel  lived most of their life around Inveresk until 1813, then David had a brief stint in England. By 1816 the family were at Gladsmuir and Richard was born at Penston, Gladsmuir on 6 Aug 1818. By 1821 they were back in Inveresk.
Richard enlisted at Edinburgh for the 45th Regiment of Foot in 1835 and transferred the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1850 while in South Africa. His attestation for the army in 1835 gives Gladsmuir as place of birth and his discharge in South Africa from the Cape Mounted Rifles in 1857 also states Gladsmuir as his place of birth. (Richard's brother Robert, born in Gladsmuir in 1816, had joined the 35th Regiment in 1834).
Albert

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Scotland / Re: Register of Acts and Decreets
« on: Wednesday 22 January 25 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
I will be going there next week, so if you want I can get a copy for you. CS43/96 is the decree which is simply a copy of the final decision, but CS44/96/62 is the original case papers of the process although sometimes not everything is present if parts were borrowed.
As someone already mentioned, he is probably being chased up to pay the money owed to the now deceased tailor.


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Midlothian / Re: South Leith Kirk Session Minutes 1640. 2 separate vols cover same period. Why ?
« on: Wednesday 06 October 21 23:23 BST (UK)  »
Loooking at the NRS catalogue, it shows CH2/716/1 as 'Minutes and discipline' while CH2/716/4 is simply 'Minutes'.
Maybe they preferred to separate matters into a different register (minutes and discipline) once the people had been found to have done something wrong and were to face some kind of punishment. But until the facts had been established and they had been found guilty the people would be discussed in the normal kirk session minute books. Does this sound like it fits the way the entries switch from one register to another?

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Midlothian / Re: Help reading occupation and parish 1817
« on: Monday 05 July 21 16:08 BST (UK)  »
I'm glad that map has proved useful for many people. I drew it and added it to my website for exactly this type of query.
In the mid 1980's I came across a large map with the parish boundaries and thought it might be handy at some time in the future. I had to photocopy it in lots of small parts, glue them together and hand colour it with watercolour. Things are a lot easier these days with good graphics software  :)
Alb

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Scotland / Re: Testaments in the Glasgow Commissariot not on scotlandspeople.
« on: Friday 22 January 21 02:38 GMT (UK)  »
It is basically what it says.  If an entry is in Volume 2, folio 5 it will be found on page 5 of volume 2

To find an entry you would normally just go to the book with the right covering date and find it in the volume using the index date as they were recorded in date order.  So if no registration dates were recorded in volume 2, the page number is needed to find it.

Alb

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Midlothian / Re: Why would a couple have two marriage certificates 1906 and 1907?
« on: Monday 27 April 20 01:14 BST (UK)  »
Only a certain number of soldiers were granted permission to marry, this was known as marrying 'on the strength'. This allowed the couple to live in married quarters and the wife and children had rights to various payments or allowances. If a soldier married without permission, the wife and any children could not live together and had no rights to any allowances, pension payments etc. I can't remember if this is all correct from memory but you get the idea.
I wonder if this second marriage was conducted after permission to marry on the strength was given?

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Midlothian / Re: opinions please.
« on: Saturday 18 April 20 17:03 BST (UK)  »
it is
2nd  |   Jo: [John] Sutherland at burnmouth of Kintyrie had a son Sylvester bapt: [baptised]

I've checked early Ordnance Survey maps and this seems to be correct as I found Kintyrie and Burnmouth located very near to each other but no place actually called 'Burnmouth of Kintyrie'. I had to stich two OS maps together for the image below but here's the link to the Kintyrie part.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/75534464

alb



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Midlothian / Re: Parish of St Mary in Edinburgh
« on: Friday 15 March 19 13:41 GMT (UK)  »
Glad you like my map. In the 1980s I came across a map with the Edinburgh parish boundaries and took a photocopy thinking this might be useful at some time in the future.
It did take some doing about 15 years ago trying to work off the old black and white copy to get the boundaries right, also using other sources to ensure old and new town boundaries were right.

Looking at it now, maybe I should note on the page that the unnamed white area between St Andrews and south Leith is like that because it was too complex. There were various strips intermixed that were too small to be labelled on the original map with the parish they belonged to.

Alb

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Midlothian / Re: a Place in Newton Midlothian
« on: Friday 15 March 19 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
It is not the same. This link will open up an detailed Ordnance survey Map (6 inched to the mile) around 1888-1913, centred on Pentecox in Newton Parish. https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=55.9200&lon=-3.1400&layers=5&b=1

The cottages are still there, only the Smithy seems to have gone.  see this link to google maps https://goo.gl/maps/hTd1TABjHr52

Pentecox in Newton is described in 1850s as 'A range of cottages in good repair tenanted chiefly by labourers' (from Ordnance Survey name books).

Alb

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