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Berwickshire / Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
« on: Wednesday 07 May 14 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Many families seem to have moved annually, presumably as agricultural periods of employment expired. When you find an ag lab on the same farm for a while, it's obvious that the worker and farmer suited each other.

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Berwickshire / Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 17:07 BST (UK)  »
Firstly, Colin, thanks to your query, I've managed to finally sort out the Nelsons! Thanks.

At the time that William was there, Leetside was part of the Blackadder Estate, owned by Sir George L.H. Boswall. The tenant had been James Herriot for a long time, by the mid 1880s it's shown as tenanted by "the heirs of the late James Herriot". As JH died in 1872, they were certainly taking their time about sorting out the estate! It was a middle-sized farm at that time, with a farmhouse and cottages for 5 workmen and their families (only Heads of Household shown on the Valuation Rolls, none of them were called Spark). Alison (William's mother) must have been fairly new to Leetside when he was born as the 1881 census shows her as being in Foulden.

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Berwickshire / Re: Cameron's/Paxton's in Chirnside
« on: Thursday 30 January 14 12:22 GMT (UK)  »
If you go to Scotlands People, you can buy a copy of the register entry now that you have the date of the marriage.
Remember that entries were not standardized, it depended on the whim of the Minister/Clerk. I've seen entries where the parents were names, and others that were minimalist to the point where one entry doesn't even give the Bride's name!

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Berwickshire / Re: Johnston
« on: Wednesday 27 November 13 13:03 GMT (UK)  »
Are you sure that he's actually buried there? Is it a family stone, or just for him? People frequently listed family members in a memorial inscription, even though they died in other places. For example, one stone in my Whitsome OPS lists people who died at sea off Denmark, New Jersey, Ayton, Edinburgh and (of course) Whitsome.

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Berwickshire / Re: War memorial - Leitholm
« on: Thursday 21 November 13 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
Have you looked through the CWGC site? They often have crumbs of information. Ancestry also has "Soldiers who died in the Great War", which often has other info on the Army. Navy people are harder to track.....

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Montrose newspapers 1836?
« on: Thursday 14 November 13 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
You can check old newspapers  on some websites. For Scotland the one owned by  Brightsolid (the owners of Scotlands People) is good  http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. FindMyPast also give access to old UK papers.

You could try those names in the 1841 census as well.

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Berwickshire / Re: Mungos Walls
« on: Monday 04 November 13 15:28 GMT (UK)  »
A settlement of this name can be found on the maps of the National Library of Scotland, right back to the 1654 map by Blaeu. Indeed, Blaeu has a symbol that he normally used for a big(gish) house beside the name. It's not a church (they have a symbol and K) or a castle (he coloured them orange). It's not a plain farm - those I'm certain were farms back then all have an open circle.  I'm wondering whether it's one of the peel towers that were all over the Borders at that time. There's certainly a lot of them in the area. I can only see one other settlement that MIGHT have a religious association to it's name (Ladycote), most of the names seem to be personal or geographical (eg Nisbeth, Boigend, Blacater).
There's nothing in the New Statistical Account about it.
I rather suspect that a guy called Mungo built his tower/fortified house there, and the name has stuck.

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Berwickshire / Re: Johnston
« on: Monday 04 November 13 11:56 GMT (UK)  »
Could he have died in England? The Border isn't very far away.....
I have a few "died in Northumberland, buried in Berwickshire" people in my One Place Study.

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Berwickshire / Re: Whitsome & Hilton URL changed
« on: Monday 04 November 13 11:45 GMT (UK)  »
The sticky at the top of the page about useful links has a link under Miscellaneous

Also http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=111255.0

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