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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo Restoration Request - Photo of my Mother and her Sister
« on: Friday 25 March 22 18:06 GMT (UK)  »
One from me.
I noticed there's what looks like a shield on the sleeve of the lady on the right. Could this have been a service uniform that was repurposed by adding the decoration to the front?
Cheers
Gary

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Timms Family photo from 1887 - details on lapel pin
« on: Sunday 20 March 22 23:31 GMT (UK)  »
Is it possibly a badge of the 11th Hussars? It's hard to tell from the angle, but you can kind of see the scroll at the base, the pillar and then the peacock feathers at the top. The 'feathers' appear wider than on the official cap badge, but this may have been a decorative version, with the curved white top part possibly having the regiment name?

Were there any military connections in the family?

Cheers
Gary

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Scotland / Re: george smith mackie
« on: Sunday 21 October 07 13:59 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for those links Ronnie - I'll follow them up

From what I can gather from the Sites and Monuments Record, the old Gauger's house is still lived in and the Bonded warehouse still stands but much of the rest of the distillery has been altered or demolished. I live not too far away so I'll maybe take a detour past it some day!

My William Murray wasn't from Culsalmond but from Forgue, about 15 miles away where his wife and children remained while he lived and worked at the distillery, but he would have certainly known your forebears in such a small community.

Cheers
Gary

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Scotland / Re: george smith mackie
« on: Friday 19 October 07 00:24 BST (UK)  »
Hi vabbott

I was interested to see you mention a website and book with information about William Smith's distillery at Jericho. My GGGG Grandfather is the William Murray 35, mashman, working with him in 1841 mentioned in MonicaLesl's earlier post.

Do you still have a note of the site and book title or any other information you've managed to find about the distillery? My William continued to work as a brewer and distillery foreman in Oldmeldrum and Aberdeen until his death from cirrhosis of the liver - probably an occupational hazard!

Cheers
Gary

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Dr James Pittendrigh MacGillivray Info req please
« on: Tuesday 09 October 07 21:23 BST (UK)  »
Another link for you - He sounds quite a character!

http://montana-riverboats.com/Robopages/index.php?thePage=PittPostVol_2_1.htm&dir=/Robopages/PittPost/z-PittPosts_1_4/

I love this quote from him

I don’t get any commissions because I want to do the work in my own way - and take my own time to do it - the time I find necessary to make things the way I want them. The result is a  tendency to tell the mob to go to hell

Cheers
Gary

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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: Francis B. Kelly 1891 & 1901 cenus Aberdeen
« on: Tuesday 02 October 07 21:27 BST (UK)  »
Hi Mollys

How exciting to have the famous architect William Kelly in your ancestry!

I guess you've seen this website already http://www.codexgeo.co.uk/dsa/architect_full.php?id=M001586
I see the page refers to a Kelly archive at Aberdeen University - have you been able to access this?

It's really interesting to see the list of buildings that are attributed to him and of course 'Kelly's Cats' on Union Bridge (which are featured on the front cover of September's Leopard magazine)

Cheers
Gary

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Aberdeenshire Lookup Requests / Re: Stills Buildings, Kintore
« on: Sunday 30 September 07 16:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Still's Buildings are just off the main square in Kintore. I work in the village so I took a few photos - I've attached a small one below. Send me a PM with your e-mail address and I can send the rest on to you.

There is an inscription above one of the windows which says 1879 - does this fit with your dates?

The building is apparently named after a Mr Still who was later (about 1894) the Provost of Kintore. I have a picture of him too which I can send you.

Coincidentally my GGG Grandfather was a Baker in Kintore in 1861 living in Abel's Buildings, but I haven't been able to trace that building yet.  There is a building across from Still's called the Old Bakery but I can't confirm if it is of the same era.

Cheers
Gary

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Joshua Allan & Agnes Paul, Tarves
« on: Saturday 14 July 07 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi

If you have a look on www.abdnet.co.uk/mi-index/ you'll find Joshua and Agnes' grave listed in Tarves Kirkyard. I stay quite near so I can have a wander up and grab a photo if you like.

Cheers
Gary

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Link: Burial Grounds in NE Scotland
« on: Sunday 01 July 07 14:23 BST (UK)  »
For burial records and lair plans, you will find contact details for Aberdeenshire Registrars at
www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/registrars/offices/index.asp

In Aberdeenshire, responsibility for Lair Plans is divided between local Registrars and Landscape Services in Inverurie. You will find the list that Landscape Services hold at
www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/registrars/offices/inverurie.asp

Cheers
Gary


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