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Kent / Re: FAGG - Elmstone
« on: Sunday 11 August 24 10:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lucy! I was forwarded your post by a very observant Ancestry user MC.
You have found my great grandmother's life history! I only have a very poor typed copy of it.
I would love to recover the bound book for the family! 
Great grandma died in Woodchurch in 1964 aged 93. I have a distinct memory of visiting her, aged 4, the year before at her cottage in Woodchurch. 
Her daughter Celia died aged 94 and just recently Celia's daughter (my mother) Alice died aged 92. Some long life genes in the female line!

Could you contact me so we can make some arrangements for a donation to Oxfam and to cover postage to Bedfordshire??
Yours,  excitedly,
Mark Stephens.

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Perthshire / Re: McLaren/MacLaren/macleran
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Simone.

I am a Forbes descendant but remember my grandmother relating the story of her mother's long friendship with Marjory. Having found and read these letters, I thought it would be good to make the linkage but have not made a definitive link yet.  I do not have a photo of John Donald, only one of a youngish Marjory that was in my great grandmothers possessions.

The letters are quite interesting and cover quite a lot of family relationships, with the Fishers mostly but some discussion of the Australian family. One Australian niece came over to be her companion for several years and two nephews came to stay on leave from WWI in Belgium.

I would be interested in sharing more with you so yes please let's exchange email addresses

Yours,

Mark

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Renfrewshire / Re: Stevens, Orr, Rowat & Clazy
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 09:53 BST (UK)  »
Glad to help.

Thank you for the AJP Taylor anecdote. Very interesting and not in our family recollections, at least not the living generations.

And thank you also for the details of Robert Smith Clazy's wars service too.

Are you related to this family?

Mark

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Renfrewshire / Re: Stevens, Orr, Rowat & Clazy
« on: Wednesday 28 August 13 00:23 BST (UK)  »
Hello Heiserca. I have only just found this forum so you may already have discovered that Sarah was indeed born in Dunoon at Clydesdale House at 8:30 am on the 16th Aug 1866 to Robert Rowat and Margaret Watson (I have a copy of the registration).
 She is my 1st cousin 3 x removed. I remember my grandmother telling of swinging Sarah's two sons around on her long plaits when they all lived in Creiff around 1911. I have posted a picture Of Sarah and her sons on my public Ancestry.com tree if you have access. Sadly The eldest son, George, committed suicide in his mothers house 31 Drummond Place, Edinburgh in 1929. The other son, Robert Smith, died in France in 1944 serving as a lieutenant in the Black Watch.

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Perthshire / Re: McLaren/MacLaren/macleran
« on: Tuesday 27 August 13 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Hello. I have been going through some suitcases of old photos and letters over the last five years and have eventually read through a packet of letters written by Marjory McLaren in 1929/30 to my Great grandmother. She recalls having to help out at the fisher's hotels at short notice in both Dunkeld and Pitlochry amongst other recollections of her Fisher aunts and uncles, her nieces and nephews from Australia.

They, Marjory and my great grandmother, were trying to find the family connection between the McLarens and the Forbes family and they seemingly never made the connection. Their families had been friends for many years.

 I have now found a Cecilia McLaren who I am trying to link with the McLarens in this thread if anyone can help that would be great! My guess is that she was born around 1760-65.

Cecilia was the wife of Robert Forbes and they lived (and presumably worked) in the model weaving village of Spittlefield between Dunkeld and  Blairgowrie.  They had 3 children there between 1785 and 90, followed by 3 more in other places.

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