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Scotland / Switch off of Canmore, Scran and Scotland's Places
« on: Sunday 18 May 25 19:26 BST (UK)  »
Announcement from Historic Environment Scotland that Canmore, Scran and Scotland's Places will be switched off on the 24th June 2025. https://www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/news/retiral-of-hes-web-services/

(I couldn't see an existing Rootschat topic on this but sorry if this is duplicate post.)

I've seen a few threads on social media saying that the replacement site trove.scot is not fit for purpose and turning off the existing sites is premature. Eg this one which I think you can read without having a bluesky account: https://bsky.app/profile/tagishsimon.bsky.social/post/3lpg2xtyo4c24

I've only used the three sites occasionally so I'm not familiar enough with them to know if the new site is a step backwards or not. Interested to know what Rootschatters who use the sites a lot think of the new one.

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Armed Forces / Re: Uniform identification and date?
« on: Saturday 31 August 24 18:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much everyone. Now I'm off to look up info about the Lovat Scouts.

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Armed Forces / Re: Uniform identification and date?
« on: Saturday 31 August 24 11:56 BST (UK)  »
Navy photo?

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Armed Forces / Uniform identification and date?
« on: Saturday 31 August 24 11:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi, these photos were found in a couple of albums that probably belonged to my great grandmother. There are no names or dates written on any of the photos but the albums seem to be from 1900-1920ish. Can anyone identify the uniforms and/or be more specific about the dates?

I know my great grandmother had a brother in the Navy so maybe he is in the white uniform. Do you think the man sitting on the wall is the same person as the man in the white uniform?
Any ideas of the regiment of the army uniform? Or if it's pre WW1 or from WW1?
Thanks!



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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Merchant Navy records CR1 CR2 CR10
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 22:09 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Hugh. I've sent you a PM.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Merchant Navy records CR1 CR2 CR10
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 17:40 BST (UK)  »
I also have questions about CR1 and CR2 records and thought I'd post here instead of starting a new thread.
The service record I'm looking at has a CR2 dated 11 March 1924, ship 143058, Port Nicholson.
On the back is a list of ship numbers and one date. Is this likely to be the date of joining the ship or date of discharge? The first ship on the list is also 143058, date 1 Aug 1925.

The CR1 is stamped 8 Sept 1924. Does this mean that he joined the ship in March 1924, left in Sept 1924 and then rejoined 11 months later in Aug 1925? Or did men sign up for a set period, like one year?

From newspaper reports, the Port Nicholson made a trip to Australia between March and Aug 1924 so he would have been back in the UK to be discharged in September. The ship then left for Australia again in October but hit a rock off Gran Canaria and passengers and crew had to be rescued, the cargo (including dynamite) transferred to another ship and the ship repaired. I'm trying to work out whether or not my grandfather was on this second voyage.
Thank you!

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Armed Forces / Re: Identifying WW1 item
« on: Friday 10 May 24 22:30 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ashtone and Andy.

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Armed Forces / Identifying WW1 item
« on: Friday 10 May 24 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello all, A friend of my father's has had this WW1 related wrist band for some time. I think he got it during the time he worked in antiques, probably from a house clearance in Glasgow. He's keen to know what it is, who it belonged to, and if possible, to pass it on to any interested descendants of the owner. I know Rootschat can't look for living people, but perhaps the military experts on here can help with the first two parts of the question? I assume HLI is the Highland Light Infantry and the number could be a service number but my google searches haven't turned up anything so far.
Thank you!

 

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Hi Ivy,
Welcome to Rootschat. I see you've not had any replies yet. I'm afraid I can't help with information about their journey, but do you have Donald and Catherine's marriage details and Henrietta's birth in Scotland?

From Scotland's People there is this baptism record:
MCLEOD HENRIETTA DONALD MC LEOD CATHERINE MUNRO FR 225 (FR225) F
13/07/1834 044 20 / 51 ASSYNT

And there are two marriage entries probably relating to dates of the banns:
MCLEOD DONALD CATHARINE MUNRO/FR309 20/04/1831 044 20 / 102 ASSYNT
MCLEOD DONALD CATHERINE MUNRO/ 20/04/1831 044 20 / 134 ASSYNT

So if this is the right family, they must have travelled sometime after July 1834.

Can you post any other information you have from NZ records, such as Donald and Catherine's ages or Donald's occupation? Those details might help someone else find them on a passenger list.

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