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Aberdeenshire / Re: The Lamont/Lamond of Braemar
« on: Saturday 28 June 25 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Umm ..

Either I am misreading this or you have an error:

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5th Great Grandfather is Alexander Lamond born 14 September 1724 in Crathie & Braemar and died August 3rd 1816 in Edinburgh married to Margaret Fraser born 1724 in Crathie & Braemar. The married 8 Jan 1853 in Braemar.

You can't mean that Alexander Lamond married 37 years after he died.

A typo? Or is the marriage other people with the same names - which is common in Scottish genealogy because of the way names were re-used in families.

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: F. W. School?
« on: Monday 26 May 25 10:13 BST (UK)  »
A bone mill, and a salt works there in 1859. Looks like the salt works outline in 1901 as well.


And the Free Church is still there in 1901.

Presumably 1859 plan is before provision was made to attract the Auchmithie fishermen.

Slainte
Gordon

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: F. W. School?
« on: Monday 26 May 25 10:00 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks Alan. First sketch from the end of Hill Rd I guess.

Can I ask the source of these?

Slainte
Gordon

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Angus (Forfarshire) / F. W. School?
« on: Monday 26 May 25 09:19 BST (UK)  »
Another query about Arbroath, Fit O' the Toon history if I may ...

On a 1901 map, at the end of East UnionSt  (next to the Boot Factory) there is a block of buildings labelled F.W. School - although the F.W. may not refer to the school. Next door there is a smaller block labelled F.F. These are at the foot of the Boulzie Hill.

I'd love to know what these were - the school particularly. Seems to be apartments now, but I guess that many of my ancestors attended the school, however briefly.

I'll attach a clip from the map.

As always, thanks in advance.

Slainte
Gordon

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Re: Arbroath - 'Fit o the toon'
« on: Saturday 24 May 25 22:47 BST (UK)  »
Alan, David

Many thanks!  Just what I need.

And that's quite a document in so many ways. Lots of great details amongst the fluff.

Slainte
Gordon

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Angus (Forfarshire) / Arbroath - 'Fit o the toon'
« on: Saturday 24 May 25 11:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I'm looking at where my deeply interconnected relatives who were fisherman in Arbroath lived.

Names like Cargill, Swankie, Spink, Shepherd, Smith, Pert, Coull abound.

There is often mention of the 'fit o the toon' - an area initially made available to fishers moving into Arbroath. Has anyone seen a definition of the area?

It'll likely be informal, and include Ladybridge, South St, John St, Union St East, Old Shore Head. But how far was the area understood to reach?

[Some are obvious: in 1901, of the 40 households in  South St, 31 included fishermen. Some of the others were one-person households, being widowed women.]

Slainte
Gordon

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: BMD Registration numbers
« on: Saturday 17 September 22 05:16 BST (UK)  »
Lucy  - many thanks. The renumbering you describe must be what I'm seeing.

Yes, I know of the method you reference to get the actual date of an event. In fact when I was teaching programming I used it as an example of the application of a binary search!

Slainte
Gordon


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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: BMD Registration numbers
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 21:48 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - I'll look into that.

Slainte
Gordon

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New Zealand Completed Requests / BMD Registration numbers
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 11:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I often see NZ Birth, Death and Marriage registration numbers used as a rough indication of a date. For example, a marriage registration 1952/01927 is likely to be early in 1952, and death 1952/34893 likely to be late in 1952.

But there were, according to Statistics NZ, only 18897 deaths in NZ in 1952. So why the much higher registration number?

Does anyone know how these numbers work?

Slainte
Gordon

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