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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Monday 01 September 25 22:19 BST (UK) »
It's an idea at that.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Monday 01 September 25 21:42 BST (UK) »
It does if you have contacted the home of Clan Mackay research at Strathnaver Museum in Thurso. Armed with death certificates, parish registers and military discharge notices including Chelsea Pensioner info. Which was also stored at the Strathnaver Museum, cross checked and referenced.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Monday 01 September 25 13:39 BST (UK) »
Hi David
I appreciate that. I have found researching my mothers side a heck of a lot easier as luckily I have a few notable relatives and notable families on that side. My fathers side not so much so its a bit more of a tough search.
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I appreciate that. I have found researching my mothers side a heck of a lot easier as luckily I have a few notable relatives and notable families on that side. My fathers side not so much so its a bit more of a tough search.
J
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 17:22 BST (UK) »
I am fascinated by my family tree and having paid for a part of it to be researched and had it confirmed that I am descended from a King of Scotland, I'm proud of that, but hungry for more. That said, time is my issue, I'm a 48 year old Dad with a full time job, 2 young children and a partner who works shift work for her living, which means free time to answer and respond is at a premium.
I've also found connections to founders of Famous grouse whiskey on a seperate maternal line as well and founders of Temperance Hotels. I have a varied and quite starry family tree, but I'm keen to research my father's maternal line more fully.
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I've also found connections to founders of Famous grouse whiskey on a seperate maternal line as well and founders of Temperance Hotels. I have a varied and quite starry family tree, but I'm keen to research my father's maternal line more fully.
J
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 16:00 BST (UK) »
Neale, I have a young family (children aged 8 and 6) and responsibilities and a full time job, I study the family tree when I can, I cannot study it for hours at a time. I don't have that luxury. I appreciate all the help given and will look at the information and act upon it when I am able to.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 11:26 BST (UK) »
This is my problem, with my 4 times Great Grandparents Robert Mcgregor and Helen Porteous, others on Ancestry have multiple different parents for Robert, they seem to agree that it was a James McGregor for the father, but for the mother they have a Janet Ritchie and a Janet Henderson. It's Familysearch researchers themselves that have Roberts parents as James McGregor and Janet Ritchie, not a random person who inputted the connection.
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Midlothian / Re: 293 Canongate, Edinburgh and Cranston Street
« on: Saturday 30 August 25 23:55 BST (UK) »
Robert Cranston, founder of the Temperance Hotels was my Great Great Uncle on my mother maternal side of the family. His son, Sir Robert paid for my Great Grandfather William Cranstons education. Both were first cousins. We are also related to Kate Cranston, founder of the Cranston Tea Rooms in Glasgow.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Saturday 30 August 25 23:39 BST (UK) »
Sorry, Isabel Craig was the wife of Walter Porteous, it's been a long day.
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The Common Room / Re: Really Stuck and need help
« on: Saturday 30 August 25 23:38 BST (UK) »
Hi
Jessie Hill was the informant of my 3 times great grandfather Robert Mcgregors death not James Leithead. James seems to have been my 3 times great grandmother Helen Porteous potential half brother. Both were children of Isabel Craig, husband of Walter Porteous. Isobel would be my 4 times Great grandmother and I have a DNA link to descendents of her and her son James.
Jessie Hill was the informant of my 3 times great grandfather Robert Mcgregors death not James Leithead. James seems to have been my 3 times great grandmother Helen Porteous potential half brother. Both were children of Isabel Craig, husband of Walter Porteous. Isobel would be my 4 times Great grandmother and I have a DNA link to descendents of her and her son James.