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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 14:12 BST (UK)  »
Good luck with that Gadget! If you need any help deciphering ...

I have the Alexander who died 1894 on file - his sister Margaret married John Fraser at Little Struy in 1862. They were children of Alexander Chisholm and Janet (Jessie) MacRae. I can't see any connection to my Alexander whose estimated age is about 20 years different from this one ... :(

Skoosh - thanks for the suggestion and the Guisachan info. I know the Eskadale Churchyard well. My own father is buried there along with several other relatives - no sign of Alex and Sarah though ...

I'll be off air for a bit now ... got a plane to catch!

Alastair

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 13:38 BST (UK)  »
Turns out I do have that will on file - must have dismissed it a while ago! I'll have another look.

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 13:28 BST (UK)  »
I must say I haven't looked at that will - but I rather took the fact that Sarah is a "widow" in censuses from 1861 onwards at face value.
They were a staunchly Catholic family and I imagine divorce was out of the question - but would they go as far as to disguise a separation as a death ...  ???:-\

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 13:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ghostwhisperer on Wednesday 12 June 13 12:20 BST (UK)
If you contact The Highland Council with the details of Sarah's death they will be able to tell you where she is buried and if there is anyone else in the same plot.

service.point@highland.gov.uk

Thank you - that's something I haven't tried ... I shall do so now!

Alastair

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 11:46 BST (UK)  »
Oh I think I see what you mean ... the "1st Jan"  is not actually written

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 11:44 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gadget on Wednesday 12 June 13 08:22 BST (UK)


I assume that you've seen the baptism on 15th Sept 1814 in Kilmorack parish:

John Chisholm, Wright, and his spouse Ann Noble at Breachacky had a child baptised called Alexander

Hi Gadget,
Yes, I've a pretty large collection of Kilmorack/Kiltarlity BDMs - John, the Wright and Ann Noble's family are accounted for elsewhere.
Very few of the Roman Catholic events made it into the OPRs for these parishes . Perhaps some of the Marriage banns did but I haven seen any RC births in the OPRs.

As far as the 1858 burial goes, if the list was created 1 Jan 1858 I'd rule out 1858 as a year of death - wouldn't you?   

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Wednesday 12 June 13 11:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ghostwhisperer - yes those are Sarah's parents and family. It's quite a grand headstone at Clachan Comar. Do you collect photos for your database? I have a few from Clachan Comar & St. Mary's Eskadale.
Gadget - thanks. Pity it's not very informative in the end! :-\ ...I do wonder where & when this Alex died as he doesn't appear in the stat records for late 1857 ...

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Tuesday 11 June 13 23:30 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Gadget on Tuesday 11 June 13 22:17 BST (UK)
Hi Alastair

I've found a possible burial in the Inverness RC burial records for 1 Jan 1858 but SP is linking me to the wrong page. I'll get back to you when I get more info.

Gadget
Hi Gadget,
Thanks for picking this one up.
I pulled up that erroneous page from SP a while ago, when the CPRs first came online - I don't think  I ever got the correct record from them.  ???
For a burial on 1 Jan 1858 you'd expect to find a record in the Statutory Deaths late Dec 1857 - but there's nothing ...

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The Common Room / Re: Alastair Chisholm's Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In
« on: Tuesday 11 June 13 12:04 BST (UK)  »
Hello Everyone,

I think this one may require some local knowledge - after several years of looking I feel I may have exhausted online resources as a source of information.

The link to John Chisholm and Anne MacRae comes from a letter written by a Colin Chisholm at the time of the 1890 wedding of my great grandfather William Chisholm (Alexander's second son).

He says that William was the first cousin of Rev Archibald Chisholm, a Roman Catholic priest whose parents were William Chisholm and Catherine Chisholm and whose family is well documented.
This William's parents were John Chisholm and Anne MacRae.
But it is really the death and burial of Alexander I'm trying to discover as well as his widow's burial.

Fingers crossed!
Alastair 

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