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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Friday 31 May 24 05:14 BST (UK)  »
meanno -

i apologize that i only copied the Balnakeil transcriptions. I think you have family graves in one of the other graveyards over by Loch Eriboll.

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Thursday 30 May 24 23:17 BST (UK)  »
djct59,

Thanks for the updates!

I made no edits in the transcription, but here I can post that for DU-C23, the table stone over the Balnakeil grave of my 4x great grandparents Hugh Ross (1731-1799) and Jean Manson (1739-1831), Chris and Angi rendered one portion of the monument inscription as:

"Mark ? behold the upright ? of that man is peace"

when it is obviously:

"Mark the perfect man and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace," Psalms 37:37, King James Version.

I recognized the full quote long ago because the son of Hugh Ross, my 3x great grandfather John Ross (1775-1857), used that exact same KJV verse on his headstone in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. I knew about the quote on the John Ross monument in the 1990s after my brother took a genealogy vacation to Nova Scotia and brought back many pictures.

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Thursday 30 May 24 21:44 BST (UK)  »
Yesterday I stumbled upon a document on my computer that I had forgotten about. Now that I re-discovered the file it is time to upload it here in the Durness Parish Register chat. Briefly, on 6 December 2020 I created a simple raw text file that contained a full copy of all of the transcriptions that Angi Lamb posted to her photo archive for the gravestones at Balnakeil. Angi's original archive was located at the URL https://public.fotki.com/rhemusaig/burial_grounds/durness_parish/durness_balnakeil/bk001.html. That web site went offline a few years ago after Angi passed away. The raw text I copied from her web site is a 36 page document, it contains text from 244 monument transcriptions, and is attached to this message.  :)

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 23:27 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Forfarian on Sunday 10 March 24 21:35 GMT (UK)
Struggling a bit, but 'nic' is the feminine of 'mac' and means 'daughter of'.

Forfarian, you are right, if it were normative Scots Gaelic 'nic' would be daughter of. But the transcriptions in question seem to be Hew Morrison's heavy editing of Rev. Thomson's unique on-the-fly-and-meandering transliterations of Scots Gaelic, hence I discard normative spelling rules to make a best guess.

For context my 4x GGF Hugh Ross (1731-1799 + buried at Balnakeil) brought infants to Rev. Thomson for baptism in '66, '68, '71, '75, '78, and '81, and the result was a similar set of meandering and creative variations that collectively kind of approximate his patronymic.

Fiveraliver, I read the groom you describe as "son of John son of John son of George son of William" and I'm not certain how to read the bride. However, I'm concerned that the four baptisms you mention are not all the same parents, i.e., the married couple Hugh-Mackay+Isobel-Skerray-Mackay. For example, Angi Lamb did not explicitly merge together the four Hugh+Isobel baptism entries in your post as a single couple in her "Index of Sutherland Durness Baptisms and Births 1764-1874." Let me know if you don't have Angi's document - it's posted in several places, such as in the Sutherland County Family History group on Facebook. Or you can PM me your email and I'll send it to you.

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Sutherland / Re: Donald ROSS & Kennethina DINGWALL
« on: Tuesday 25 January 22 00:12 GMT (UK)  »
Bouwe Postmus,

If you are looking for Jessie Ross born 20 April 1888 at Midpenny, Lairg, she's a cousin of mine. The death registration mentioned by Forfarian says that Jessie Ross Paterson, widow of John Paterson, died at Lairg when she was 48 years old. Cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis.

Jessie's mother Kennethina Dingwall was a daughter of Neil Dingwall and Merran Macleod, who are buried together at Balnakeil in Durness Parish.

Jessie's grandmother Merran Macleod was a daughter of Angus Macleod and Janet Ross. Merran Macleod Dingwall and two of her Macleod sisters, and their parents (and their grandparents) are buried at Balnakeil in Durness.

:-)

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Sutherland / Re: Resource website no longer live
« on: Tuesday 18 May 21 01:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: djct59 on Friday 14 May 21 22:57 BST (UK)
Perhaps someone on Facebook could ask via the Sutherland Heritage group whether the family/families would be willing to provide the images (perhaps for a fee) to a new permanent website set up in their memory?

djct59 - I asked the new Admin of the Sutherland group on FB. She said (paraphrasing) they are aware the burial ground site is offline and planning to address it, and noted that the rich blog history by Chris Stokes is available on blogspot.com (i.e., free hosting from Google) - https://cosuthfamhistory.blogspot.com/

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Sutherland / Re: Resource website no longer live
« on: Friday 14 May 21 21:34 BST (UK)  »
To recap, Chris Stokes did not reply to the email I sent to her gmail address on 31 March, or to the later private message I sent to her on Facebook regarding the rhemusaig user account at fotki.com.

Today the Rogart Heritage Society published an announcement in the County Sutherland Scotland Family History group on Facebook titled: "CHRISTINE FINLAYSON MURRAY STOKES, 1943-2021" It is a beautifully written tribute by the Rogart Heritage Society, though not a formal obituary.

I fear the Rhemusaig Burial Grounds archive of 6,000 tombstone transcriptions and photos may be beyond reach.

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Friday 14 May 21 00:43 BST (UK)  »
here's two uk geograph photos of rhigolter

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/887784
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1901039

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Sutherland / Re: Durness Parish Register - Part 2
« on: Friday 14 May 21 00:08 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: meanno on Thursday 13 May 21 23:13 BST (UK)
Wilros, if you look at John Thomsons atlas of 1832 and follow the River Grudy south south west from the Kyle of Durness you'll find "Regolter".

https://maps.nls.uk/view/74400145

meanno -

what a beautiful map. i see it, thanks!

looks like thompson has misnamed the dionard the grudy.

looking in thompson's location on the os leisure map i see "Rhigolter" which is also present on the os standard map.

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