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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Agnes Straiton or Smith, Huddersfield
« on: Saturday 30 January 21 16:47 GMT (UK)  »
Your Agnes Straiton is shown in the 1891 census aged 10 and living with Lachlina McQuarrie and is listed as a grandchild. There are  4 other children listed as grand children but I can not find birth certs for them under any McQuarrie mothers.
 I think that there was an adoption  / fostering service going on for orphans or Illegitimate children. A daughter of Lachlina , Catherine Stott nee mcquarrie had a boarding house in Gatehouse and the census for 1881 had children shown as boarders and 1 later as g/child of Lachlina . John Stott later in life shown as a town Officer. 

Your Agnes Straiton mother I think is a Annie Straiton and G/mother was Isabella Shields, nee Fitzsimmons, Annie later married a William Burgoyne in 1893 at Kirkcudbright when she was 33.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Can you recognise this uniform?
« on: Monday 05 March 18 17:45 GMT (UK)  »
Cant help with the uniform , don't think its an armed service one.

 The background looks like an studio backdrop so may not mean to represent anywhere in particular

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Wigtownshire / Re: Photography: Ivy Place Burial Ground
« on: Sunday 05 January 14 14:59 GMT (UK)  »


It might be too late now but there was a Kirk in the Morrisons car park which was demolished, opposite St Andrews Kirk, don't know if it had a burial ground though. There is a burial ground behind what was the TA centre in Belvilla St/Thistle St. which is only a hundred yards or so away from St Andrews.  It was a Kirk at one time and when the TA moved out it was reinstated as a Kirk. It can be seen on the google street thingy.

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Inverness / Re: MacQuarrie-Gordon Clans
« on: Sunday 30 January 11 16:14 GMT (UK)  »
Probably out of date now but when I was hunting out names for  McQuarrie  In Galloway  (Scotland ) family history  I came across a ref. to a  Donald McQuarrie who lived in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1919 who's daughter Evelyn was married there. He put a notice in one of the local papers ("Galloway News" I think )  about his daughters' marriage so he would have had a local connection. His son Walter McQuarrie, died in W. W. 1, (8/5/1915) and is named on Twelve Tree Corpse Memorial in Turkey.
I have been told he was married to a Gordon from huntly but as that came from a niece in N.Z.  I wonder if some lines are crossed somewhere. It seemed strange that a man from the highlands would put a notice in a local paper for an area where he had no connection

The badge with an arm holding a sword is a McQuarrie badge

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