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Hi. I have just discovered that I am descended from Andrew Mitchell, son of Andrew and Isobel Keith. I see that Martha Panton was on the 1841 census living with Andrew and Isobel at Ramsburn. Her age is given as 60 but that census gives rounded up/down ages. Her place of birth is Scotland so probably not Banffshire.

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I am descended from Elizabeth Tough, daughter of George of Mill O Barns, born 1729. She married William Shirras from Keig on 22 May 1759. Tomorrow, I am off to Register House in Edinburgh to see if I can find anything relating to George and his family. Will let you know if I strike gold.

Pat

How about the Press and Journal? The death may have been reported.

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Lodge Walk is a very old street that used to run from the Castlegate to Queen Street and now leads to the back of the Police Headquarters - still known to locals as Lodge Walk. I have the street directory for 1957-58 and there are a number of properties listed - the City Police Office, the Department of Agriculture for Scotland, a private householder (Mathew Stevenson) and John E Esslemont (china merchant).

In 1906, my gt uncle, Peter Gallacher, lived in a flat at 35 Lodge Walk. The majority of the closes and pends in the Castlegate area have been built over, truncated or generally lost in various so-called improvements!

By the way, it was called Lodge Walk because the entrance to the Masonic Lodge above the New Inn was there. The New Inn was built in 1755 and in 1839 it was demolished to make way for Archibald Simpson's North Bank which is now the Archibald Simpson pub.

Pat