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Aberdeenshire Completed Lookups / Re: Drumblade MIs - Elizabeth GORDON
« on: Sunday 12 April 15 23:45 BST (UK) »
Thanks for taking the time to do that, Elaine. It's been a huge help!
--Daniel
--Daniel
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Aberdeenshire Completed Lookups / Re: Drumblade MIs - Elizabeth GORDON
« on: Sunday 12 April 15 16:14 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much, Elaine. This means that the inscription quoted in the Thanage of Fermartyn (p. 241) is pretty much complete and accurate, apart from the reference to Eliza instead of Elizabeth.
This is a shot in the dark, but as long as I have this thread open on the topic of Elizabeth Gordon of Drumblade, would you happen to know if there's mention in the kirkyard of another one, Bessie or Bessy GORDON, wife of John PEDDIE? She wouldn't be a principal or indexed entry, as far as I can tell, but I'm wondering if her name appears in the text of someone else's inscription (likely a Gordon or a Peddie).
--Daniel
This is a shot in the dark, but as long as I have this thread open on the topic of Elizabeth Gordon of Drumblade, would you happen to know if there's mention in the kirkyard of another one, Bessie or Bessy GORDON, wife of John PEDDIE? She wouldn't be a principal or indexed entry, as far as I can tell, but I'm wondering if her name appears in the text of someone else's inscription (likely a Gordon or a Peddie).
--Daniel
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Aberdeenshire Completed Lookups / Drumblade MIs - Elizabeth GORDON
« on: Monday 06 April 15 18:17 BST (UK) »
Hi, I'm curious about the MI for stone 300 (Elizabeth GORDON), Drumblade Kirkyard, if anyone has it. Thanks...
--Daniel
--Daniel
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Rutland Lookup Requests / MESSAM - Greetham Parish Records
« on: Monday 16 November 09 18:15 GMT (UK) »
Hi, I'd be grateful if someone with access to the Greetham PR would transcribe the marriage record for Thomas MESSAM & Charlotte FOR(E)MAN, 19 Sep 1809.
{I'm really hoping there's a remark there on his occupation...}
Also, if there's info about his death and/or burial dates elsewhere in the parish records, could you kindly pass that on as well?
Thanks so much!
--Daniel
{I'm really hoping there's a remark there on his occupation...}
Also, if there's info about his death and/or burial dates elsewhere in the parish records, could you kindly pass that on as well?
Thanks so much!
--Daniel
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: 1851 Manchester (Chorlton) census lookup - MASON
« on: Tuesday 14 April 09 15:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks again, Eric. I just had a look at the water-damaged piece, over at Ancestry, and sure enough it's completely illegible in the bottom half: everything is blacked out. In fact, it's so uniformly obliterated that I wonder how the Manchester society got any data at all from it, since they did come up with the names for the index ... or, what amounts to the same question, how they extracted those names and not the other information. Too bad! In my research I've been really stymied by this family, especially by the father, mother, and first child--where born, when, and occupations. What they reported on those points changed so dramatically from record to record, i.e. with more than the usual variation, that I was hoping to get some confirmation out of the 1851 census...
--Daniel
--Daniel
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: 1851 Manchester (Chorlton) census lookup - MASON
« on: Monday 13 April 09 14:14 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much, Eric and Gaille. Those bit and pieces just make the puzzle more tantalizing! No doubt I've got my work cut out for me as I pursue these enigmatic Masons. And Gaille, I too didn't understand there was a cd with more to offer -- seems like a must-acquisition for anyone with lots of ancestors in the region. Eric, can you estimate how much more info, on average, is provided for the given person on the cd, over and beyond what's there on the website index?
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Lancashire Lookup Requests / 1851 Manchester (Chorlton) census lookup - MASON
« on: Sunday 12 April 09 23:21 BST (UK) »
Hi, everyone,
Could some kind soul please help me out with Thomas Mason et al. (details below)? I'd be grateful for the full line for each member, if it's not too much trouble: relation to head, marital condition, age, occupation, birthplace, and infirmity. Thanks so much!
1851 Census
Chorlton RD, Ardwick
47 Union St
Names: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Ann Gould, Mary, Thomas, James, and George Henry MASON. Also Susan WILLIAMSON (maybe a visitor).
--Daniel
Could some kind soul please help me out with Thomas Mason et al. (details below)? I'd be grateful for the full line for each member, if it's not too much trouble: relation to head, marital condition, age, occupation, birthplace, and infirmity. Thanks so much!
1851 Census
Chorlton RD, Ardwick
47 Union St
Names: Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Ann Gould, Mary, Thomas, James, and George Henry MASON. Also Susan WILLIAMSON (maybe a visitor).
--Daniel
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Banffshire / Re: Cabrach
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 02:07 GMT (UK) »
A quick follow-up for anyone interested in the history of a toponym 
There's an entry for Peddie's Hill in John Milne's Celtic Place-names in Aberdeenshire (1912). I haven't read the description in full--it's shown only as a snippet at Google Books--but according to Milne, the name comes from the Gaelic "Tom Paite," or "hill of the hump," which later, through anglicization, I guess, was taken or mistaken to be a personal description, i.e. Tom Paite's hill. Apparently this evolved into Peddie's Hill--maybe because of the presence of the family in the area.
Google Books = fantastic
There's an entry for Peddie's Hill in John Milne's Celtic Place-names in Aberdeenshire (1912). I haven't read the description in full--it's shown only as a snippet at Google Books--but according to Milne, the name comes from the Gaelic "Tom Paite," or "hill of the hump," which later, through anglicization, I guess, was taken or mistaken to be a personal description, i.e. Tom Paite's hill. Apparently this evolved into Peddie's Hill--maybe because of the presence of the family in the area.
Google Books = fantastic
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Banffshire / Re: Cabrach
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 00:09 GMT (UK) »
Great info ... thanks so much!
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