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Banffshire / Re: Ardfour Inverkeithny
« on: Monday 01 June 15 08:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi dobbs 55 don't think there is any connection , don't recognise any of the names you mention
and don't think my Rennie'shad any connection with Fife, mine were all Aberdeenshire and Banffshire.

Sorry
Jim

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The Lighter Side / Rootschat
« on: Wednesday 06 February 13 11:28 GMT (UK)  »
Why oh why must things be changed when they work fine, first it was Genes Reunited they updated
and now have a site that's not fit for purpose and the members are leaving in droves.

Now its Rootschat new layout that I can't find my way around, what was wrong with it before?

Don't like it and doubt very much if I will be back.

Renard

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Occupation Interests / Re: What's in a gamekeepers licence?
« on: Sunday 23 September 12 20:38 BST (UK)  »
Can't help much Gamekeepers licence  was abolished some time ago at least in Scotland, not sure when but there was still a gamekeepers licence when I started as a young gamekeeper in the 1960s.

Don't remember actually ever seeing it as it was applied for and held by our employers.

The last to go was the licence to kill game which was abolished in England some time ago and more recently in Scotland.

Anyone who shot game was supposed to hold such a licence but it was much abused as very rarely was anyone prosecuted for not having one.


Gamekeepers licence had more powers than a normal licence to kill game
a keepers licence allowed game to be captured out of season for breeding purposes.

At one time a keeper also had the power to apprehend  tresspassers and suspected poachers, believe at one time they could be held for up to twelve hours, before either being released or brought before the law

In those days a gamekeeper had more powers than a policeman on private land


As times changed many of the powers were withdrawn and a licence was no longer relevent.
sorry can't really help other than that.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Rannie or Rennie
« on: Monday 26 March 12 19:58 BST (UK)  »
Thanks guys, suspect the James from Gamrie may be mine, but don't know if I will ever be able to prove it one way or another.


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Aberdeenshire / Re: Rannie or Rennie
« on: Friday 23 March 12 20:42 GMT (UK)  »
flst, took your advice and contacted Aberdeen Archives, almost a dead end I am afraid, her application for poor relief describes her as widow Rennie no details of her husband or when she became a widow, only details of the children and the relief she receiving

Definitely receiving relief in 1857 but notes attached which indicate she received  some casual relief  prior to this.

The last entry is for 1870 when her relief was reduced due to her being partially supported by her family.

All very interesting but no closer to finding James Rannie- Rennie his daughter
Elizabeth born 1851 and John Much Marys illegitimate son born 1853 or54
James must have died in that three to four year period, but can find nothing on Scotlands people that fits.

 Any ideas please on where I go from here, very disappointed as I thought the poor relief records might give me the information I wanted.

Jim


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The Common Room / Re: Married at Fifty
« on: Thursday 22 March 12 19:41 GMT (UK)  »
Much younger than these examples I had an ancestor who married when he was 23 his bride was 37 and no it was not a shotgun wedding.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Rannie or Rennie
« on: Tuesday 07 February 12 08:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks I don't live close to Aberdeen, but still have some relatives there so visit from time to time.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Rannie or Rennie
« on: Monday 06 February 12 22:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks flst, I did look at that Rennie family some time ago and found the family in Gamrie, unfortunately have not been able to find them after 1851
and nothing to say one way or the other if he is my James or not going by the children that Mary had and described as a widow on their birth records it would appear that my James Rannie- Rennie died between 1851 and 1854
there is nothing that fits on Scotland's people.

So it looks like a visit to Aberdeen at some point in the future though I am not hopeful as I have had contact with someone who's tree connects with mine they hired a professional researcher who also drew a blank on James Rannie-Rennie.

Anyhow once again thanks to all for your help

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Rannie or Rennie
« on: Tuesday 24 January 12 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks guys, so the one in Fyvie is not my James Rannie, according to Scotlands people there were only two James Rannie's died in aberdeenshire between 1850 and 1857 by which time Mary was widowed, suspect she was a widow 1853 -54 have looked at all the Rannie Rennie deaths for this period  on Scotlands people and none of them fit.

Seems to be a dead end.

Jim

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