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Scotland / Re: Help with a Scotcher "myth"
« on: Tuesday 23 October 07 13:43 BST (UK)  »
The Sir Simon from Hartley Mauditt was indeed the one mentioned by Auntie Bena so he must be some kind of connection.

Very strangely, though, another branch of my family (neither Scotcher nor Clark, but Turvill) came from Hartley Mauditt, which is not (and never was) exactly a metropolis.

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Scotland / Re: Help with a Scotcher "myth"
« on: Monday 22 October 07 23:33 BST (UK)  »
I've got the same pieces of paper! However, I was able to find something interesting about (Sir) Simon Stuart. He must have been some kind of forebear, but I can't make the connection yet.

Anyway, what I found was from a magazine whose name I forget for the moment. The publication, which existed for about 40 - 50 years in the early 1700s, is actually available online. Or it was a few years ago when I found the reference to Sir Simon Stuart.

There was a small article, no more than a paragraph or so, which told that he had been lucky enough to find a treasure trove of gold coins buried on his land by his grandfather during the English Civil War.

I'll try to dig it out in a few days and give you specifics.

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Scotland / Re: Help with a Scotcher "myth"
« on: Monday 22 October 07 20:30 BST (UK)  »
The book was published in 1810, I think. Clearly George Scotcher was one, maybe two, generations up from Nicholas.

Did you meet Edward, by any chance?

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Scotland / Re: Help with a Scotcher "myth"
« on: Monday 22 October 07 16:05 BST (UK)  »
Just to complicate the story...

There was a George Scotcher who wrote a famous book on fly-fishing called "The Fly Fisher's Legacy" published around 1810. It was a sort of bible for fly-fishermen (and women, of course). The book is long out of print and - if a copy was discovered - it would be quite valuable.

Here's a link to a description of the book...
http://books.google.com/books?id=KwsAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA190&lpg=PA190&dq=scotcher+fly+fishing&source=web&ots=oxsaPGQy8h&sig=GluWcjDOiwLpueAx99Iufir2_uw

I think this George Scotcher may have been an uncle of Nicholas Stuart Scotcher. In some notes I have from Auntie Bena (Marianne Scotcher, 1837-1935) I seem to remember that she refers to him.

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Scotland / Re: Help with a Scotcher "myth"
« on: Sunday 02 September 07 21:43 BST (UK)  »
Just come across this board. Maybe I can shed some light.

I have a letter written in 1927 by Marianne Susan Stuart Scotcher (1837 - 1935), my mother's great aunt (her younger sister - my great-grandmother - was Susan Muller Scotcher who married Edwin Stanley Clark in 1872). The letter was written to her great-nephew, Billy Bullock Webster (1879 - 1970), a theatre educator in Vancouver, B.C. The letter discusses the Scotcher "story".

She was known to my mother and other family members as "Auntie Bena". She never married and spent much of her adult life in Russia tutoring the children of nobility. She followed in the footsteps of her aunt, Jane Stuart Scotcher (1810 - 1879), who also tutored Russian princes. It was Aunt Jane who passed down the story. In the 1927 letter she writes..."She (Jane) knew, she said, we were descendants of the Scottish family (of) Henry Darnley Stuart, who married Mary Queen of Scots and they had one son who became James the First of England."

Marianne's parents were Nicholas Stuart William Scotcher (1813 - 1903) and Eliza Crawford Muller (1815 - 1881).

I would be glad to share additional information on the Scotchers & Clarks.

Steve

P.S. I tried to upload the letter which I have scanned, but the file was too large.



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