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Australia / Re: Jack GRANT - Help needed finding Death Details
« on: Saturday 09 July 22 02:03 BST (UK)  »
I am a member of the Orange Family History Group.  I have been looking for soldiers in unmarked graves in Orange Cemetery.  Just wondering if those folk in this discussion are still online and whether they would help with information regarding Jack for the bio I am doing. 

Eventually his grave will be marked with a white cross and eventually he will have a headstone (fingers crossed).

Kind regards
Sharon 

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Banffshire / Re: Rothan Parish of Ordiquhill
« on: Thursday 04 April 19 16:42 BST (UK)  »
Got it, thank you.  I also had a place called Headrooms mentioned and it is right next door.   :)

Cheers
Sharon 

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Banffshire / Rothan Parish of Ordiquhill
« on: Thursday 04 April 19 16:27 BST (UK)  »
Just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of the above place.  I just don't seem to be able to find it on an OS map. 

cheers
Sharon 

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Banffshire / Re: Jessie Ingram Marnoch
« on: Saturday 30 March 19 12:41 GMT (UK)  »
I just so happened to be in Aberdeen at the moment so will make it a point of visiting the library and see what I can find.  Thanks for the tip.

Cheers
Sharon

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Banffshire / Jessie Ingram Marnoch
« on: Saturday 30 March 19 10:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all

I have just found out that the above lady was strangled and left in a ditch near Old Crombie in 1959. Of course now I am desperate to get the full story.  Would this be recorded in any newspapers and if so where as I only have another week in Scotland before returning home to Australia.

Any ideas most appreciated. 

Shea was the daughter of William Ingram and Barbara Steele born 1900 at Sheep Park Marnoch. 

Sharon

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Midlothian / Re: a Place in Newton Midlothian
« on: Friday 15 March 19 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
thanks For those links. Now I see it. 

Sharon

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Midlothian / a Place in Newton Midlothian
« on: Friday 15 March 19 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
Just wondering if anyone has heard of a place called Penticox in the Parish of Newton, Midlothian. 

I am not very familiar with the area and google maps is not being very forthcoming with a solution (it throws up a place called Newton near Queensferry) definitely not SE as stated below.   

GENUKI states:
"PENTECOX, a village in the parish of Newton, county Edinburgh, Scotland, 4 miles S.E. of Edinburgh."

Are they one and the same?

Sharon 

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Midlothian / Re: Thomson family in Edinburgh
« on: Monday 11 March 19 11:58 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Forfarian

Now the puzzle deepens! 

marriage:  7 Nov 1813:  Gilbert Dunbar gentlm servant, St Andrew Parish and Isabella Thomson same Parish daughter of George Thomson joint keeper of the Parliament House Edinburgh. 

baptism:  Gilbert Dunbar servant and Isabella Thomson HS (I think) St Andrews Parish AS (possibly AD) 13 22nd April last named William baptised by Mr A Thomson.

burial:  Dec 8 1854:  Mrs Isabella thomson wife of Gilbert Dunbar 68 years 2 Deanhaugh Street (no cause of death.

The death you mentioned for Mr John Thomson wasn't the right man - this one was a music teacher .... speaking of which:

Is this Agnes prior to her marriage:

Piece: SCT1841/685 Place: St Cuthbert's -Midlothian Enumeration District: 25
Civil Parish: St Cuthberts Ecclesiastical Parish, Village or Island: -
Folio: 25 Page: 4
Address: 9 South Richmond Street
    Surname   First name(s)   Sex   Age   Occupation   Where Born   Remarks   
    DUNBAR   William   M   60   Musician    Outside Census County (1841)       
    DUNBAR   Ann   F   43       Outside Census County (1841)       
    THOMSON   Agness   F   22   Straw Hat Maker    Midlothian

And .... just for coincidence sake:

A child William Thomson Dunbar, son of Gilbert and Isabella died from an accident at 23 Jamaica Street, Edinburgh in 1824.  Agnes Thomson and Hugh Fraser married at 3 Jamaica Street, Edinburgh in 1846. 

1851 census states that Gilbert Dunbar was born in Morayshire and his wife was born in Edinburgh. 

What a family!

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Midlothian / Re: Thomson family in Edinburgh
« on: Monday 11 March 19 08:09 GMT (UK)  »
Well its still not straightforward as I thought it would be.  I managed to decipher one daughter Jane Stewart Thomson whose mother was Margaret Bremner. 

I found a marriage for Jane Stewart Thomson in 1857 (aged 28 at the time and residing at No 7 Duncan Street, Leith) and it gives her parents as John Thomson, Messenger at Arms and Margaret Bremner.  (Margaret appears to be still alive at 1857). 

In 1868 there is a death for a Margaret Thomson (widow) at the St Cuthbert's Poor House Edinburgh.  No other information except her m.s. was Bremner.

The document also mentions Sasines - would they be worth pursuing? 

Perhaps Agnes Thomson was illegitimate ::)

Perhaps this is the wrong man  :-[

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