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Inverness / Re: mcdonalds of Skye
« on: Tuesday 14 February 12 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Lynn, but, you are right in that these are not the MacDonalds I'm looking for as they lived in Edinbane.

Angusm there's really no need for your comments re Flora. Perhaps, as she is only a MacDonald by marriage you should not even be mentioning her on a MacDonald topic??????

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Inverness / Re: mcdonalds of Skye
« on: Saturday 24 December 11 10:46 GMT (UK)  »
There are so many MacDonalds particularly on Skye - which is NOT in Inverness, but, an island I live on off the West coast of the Highlands! I really can't believe that someone has posted re the most famous MacDonald of all who is known worldwide for for her connection with the Bonnis Prince. Her grave is at the end of my road. if you are researching MacDonalds you need to make sure they come from the same area you are researching as there are so many branches of this family. Jonathon MacDonald, who runs the Museum of Island life, again on the road I live on, and is also a well known historian/ genealogist, has no knowledge of the ones I am researching in Edinbane on Skye  Such is the diversity of the branches.

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Worcestershire / Re: Yardley
« on: Saturday 19 March 11 20:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Mike. I found out a lot about my paternal grandmother's family & where they lived on the Rowley Regis page. These local pages are excellent & the folk on them are always very helpful too.

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Worcestershire / Re: Yardley
« on: Sunday 13 March 11 10:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks that will really help as I've probably done searches under the wrong county in the past!

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Inverness / Re: mcdonalds of Skye
« on: Wednesday 12 May 10 12:10 BST (UK)  »
Hi  I'm also researching MacDonalds of Skye who emigrated to Canada in the 1920's.  My tree starts with Norman MacDonald who died in Edinbane in 1800, he was married to Alexanderina MacLean. If you are a member of Ancestry I have a public tree on there under the name Chadbourn.

Cheers Mo

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The Lighter Side / Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« on: Monday 02 February 09 22:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again Trees - I love this site there's always some kind person who comes to your rescue when you are stuck! Mo x

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The Lighter Side / Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« on: Monday 02 February 09 19:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Trees & Jenb - it's really interesting about the name & where she was bornI expected it to be some far off country with a name like hers!  I don't think she is my relative as I have a John Bulllus b18312 who married Rhoda sometime between 1851 & 186, but, have been unable to find their marriage in the Worcestershire/Birmingham area.

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The Lighter Side / Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« on: Monday 02 February 09 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone can beat this one - Kerczhappack!  I found her whilst looking for my Bullus ancestors, she is married to a John Bayliss & on the 1851 census in Birmingham HO 107 2061 pg 18. I was trying to work out where she was born, but, can't decipher it.

Mo

PS What's the prize????!!!!

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The Common Room / Re: Nurse Child
« on: Wednesday 29 October 08 17:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Greensocks  A foundling Hospital is a place where unwanted children, mostly illegitimate were taken to be cared for. The only one I know is Thomas Coram's in London where my Mother was brought up. A payment was usually required to admit the children & they were given another name. In my Mother's case she was told her real name plus a little about her family when she was in her sixties & I believe this is only given when the last of the child's immediate family have passed away. Sorry I can't be of more help. Mo

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