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Banffshire / Re: My Banffshire families...
« on: Sunday 08 January 12 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
Rob,

Go to Scotlands People website. It is excellent.

Other useful ones are Ancestry, IGI, Genes Reunited

Regards

Bill

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Banffshire / Re: My Banffshire families...
« on: Saturday 22 May 10 08:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

Good Pirie web site is here

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/

Bill

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Banffshire / Re: Banffshire families
« on: Sunday 07 February 10 11:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Forfarian,

A short note to let you know that I have checked my tree and the names you are interested in dont match anybody.

I believe there were a lot of Wood families in this area at that time.

Maybe some of the other people on the discussion group will have matches for your names.

Regards

Bill

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Banffshire / Re: My Banffshire families...
« on: Saturday 23 May 09 14:56 BST (UK)  »
Caroline,

I have sent you a Personal Message with my email address - if you let me know your own email address I can send you what information I have got so far,

The lady who started this thread will also have some info relevant to your tree.

There is another website that I can email you details of - the Pirie family tree they link up with us somewhere and there is a chap with a huge Pirie  tree that contains some Wood folk.

Regards

Bill

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Banffshire / Re: My Banffshire families...
« on: Friday 22 May 09 09:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Napier12 on Thursday 21 May 09 19:29 BST (UK)
hi Derek, My great grandfather was Alexander Wood(Park) his daughter Caroline Slater nee Wood was my grand mother.Isabella Giffords parents were Edmund Gifford and Jane Geddes, and they were not married. Our great great grandfathers George Woods parents were Ann Sutherland and Alexander Wood. Caroline nee Slater

Hello,

Alexander Wood born 1810ish and married to Ann Sutherland is my great great great grandfather - sounds like you and I are 3rd cousins ?

I can send you a ged file if you like

Although there is a lot of data out there I do wonder about the accuracy of the 1700s stuff - I quite easily "hoovered up" a heap of people on that line on ancestry that got me back to mid 1600s.


Bill (Australia)

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Banffshire / Re: Hello from Australia - Wood Webster Cow(ie)
« on: Sunday 01 March 09 03:18 GMT (UK)  »
Monica,

It is now 5 weeks after your initial reply to me.

You recommended Scotlands People and rightly so - it has been fabulous - Thankyou - I have been happily leapfrogging from birth to marriage to birth until I finally hit dead ends on all lines - I have collected all the appropriate Birth and Marriage certificates. They were very thorough in recording maiden names and ages etc making it easy to be confident in the links.

Am now starting to focus on death certificates and census data and other peoples trees and have had some further succes with notes and responses from this forum.

Once again thanks for the initial guidance.

Seeya

Bill


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Banffshire / Re: SIM, gamrie banff
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 10:28 GMT (UK)  »
Forfarian,

Thanks for reply

Isabella was born in West Street Strichen on 25th May 1879 at 12 Midnight - Although I cannot find her in the 1881 census, I have her birth certificate and marriage certificate and am reasonably happy with what I know about her.

My mother describes Isabella as "the best granny in the world"

Its her mother Ann that I cannot get past.

Ann is simply listed on the birth certificate as a domestic servant and no age is written down.

Any hints greatly welcome

Regards

Bill Wood

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Banffshire / Re: STILL, SIM, DUNCAN, ANDREW, CALDER
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 00:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

My great grandma was Isabella Wildgoose Sim born 25/5/1879 daughter of Ann Sim and  ??

Couldnt get past Ann Sim any help greatly appreciated.

Bill

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Banffshire / Re: SIM, gamrie banff
« on: Wednesday 25 February 09 00:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I have a couple of Sims.

Isabella Wildgoose Sim born 25/5/1879 was my great grandmother - she was the illegitimate daughter of Ann Sim a domestic servant.

I couldnt get past Ann Sim - can anyone help ?

Is it likely that she took the middle name Wildgoose in a refernce to a suspected father ?

Bill

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