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Perthshire / Re: Sands Norrieston and Port of Menteith
« on: Wednesday 13 April 11 10:20 BST (UK)  »
Terrance

Sorry about the delay in replying. This is some information I have about the Sands family.
Jane (or Jeanie) Sands was the daughter of John and Margaret Sands of Ward of Goodie Farm, near Port of Menteith. Jane was born about 1864 when her father would have been about 58 years old.
Jane married James Nimmo (Nimmo is my middle name and, unusually, what I am always called!) probably about 1882. James worked on the farm. James’s family came from Carriden on the Firth of Forth.
James and Jane had 5 children of whom the second youngest was Mary Nimmo who married James Kay, a farmer from Gargunnock near Stirling. My mother, Margaret, was one of their 6 children.
As far as I can gather, Jane Sands had 3 brothers and 1 sister but I do not know any more about them.

Nimmo

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Perthshire / Re: Sands Norrieston and Port of Menteith
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 21:08 BST (UK)  »
I am very new to this forum i.e. I  joined today but I found it using google and I was very excited to find the name Sands of Port of Menteith as this is a line I have been tracing. In Chevalier's post of 3/9/09 under paragraph 2, he mentioned John Sands of Ward of Goodie farm who I am almost certain is my great great grandfather. In the 1881 census he is living at this farm with wife Margaret (nee McNab?) and 5 of their children the youngest of whom is 7. So John Sands must have been about 70 when this child was born!
There is another child Jeanie who is about 17 in 1881 who, I believe, is living with her uncle at a nearby farm. She appears in the 1871 census living at Wart of Gooch (sic) Farm. I believe Jeanie is my great grandmother  who I can trace through my late mother's side of the family. I see from Chevalier's post that Margaret is John's second wife. Alexander, who is John's son by his first marriage must be my great grandmother's half brother.
Not sure if this is old news but I have some more information if anyone is interested.

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