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Inverness / Re: Crofts in North uist
« on: Saturday 18 March 17 13:31 GMT (UK)  »
Looks like I never saw or responded to this message - my apologies!

Regarding Anne who married Archibald Campbell - my research suggests that her name was Margaret - not Anne.

Margaret, according to her gravestone inscription was born on Skye in 1786 and died in 1874.
Her husband, from the same stone, Archibald Campbell, native of the isle of Skye, Inverness-shire born Feb 17 1785, died [stone broken & repaired]1866, aged 81 years.

Of course the other possibility is that Margaret is the second wife of Archibald Campbell.
 

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Midlothian / Re: Thomas SOMERVILLE/Margaret GILCHRIST and a son John
« on: Sunday 19 February 17 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
I did find that interesting mapping tool which looks from historic maps right up to present day aerial images which are all georectified.
http://www.scottish-places.info/counties/countymaps12.html

Also found an interesting site on the Adams Family of Adamsrow.
http://www.adams-of-adamsrow.com/

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Midlothian / Re: Thomas SOMERVILLE/Margaret GILCHRIST and a son John
« on: Saturday 18 February 17 22:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the link to the map! That should help me get my bearings (I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada)

I have looked at most of the baptismal records - the daughter Martha is the only one with witnesses listed:  James Blythe and Alex Hislop.

The other item of note is that Martha Hislop, wife of John Penman, was a resident of Adamsrow when she died Sep 7 1832.

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Midlothian / Re: Thomas SOMERVILLE/Margaret GILCHRIST and a son John
« on: Saturday 18 February 17 21:29 GMT (UK)  »
You may be correct MonicaL. I was steered that way by a Penman researcher several years ago. I don't have good understanding of the terrain over there to know which communities are near each other. From your comment I'm guessing Duddingston is removed from Newton while Cockpen is closer? Your option with father Richard explains how the name shows up in repeatedly in several generations of the family. We'll probably never know. :-\

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Midlothian / Re: Thomas SOMERVILLE/Margaret GILCHRIST and a son John
« on: Saturday 18 February 17 16:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Forfarian - I have asked myself the same questions hence that post to see if anyone else could help. Admittedly, I am lax when using "of" as I thought its importance was only concerning the aristocracy and their land holdings. I should have said that John lived at Miller Hill and Adams Row.

As you suggest his four eldest children were baptized in Newton and John and Janet were married there as well, in 1822. Janet was from Duddingston, Midlothian where she was baptized in 1795. I'm thinking there is a good probability that John was from Newton.

Slainte

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Midlothian / Thomas SOMERVILLE/Margaret GILCHRIST and a son John
« on: Saturday 18 February 17 14:42 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone familiar with this family? Looking to connect with anyone who might be able to confirm my suspicions about John parentage. John was a collier. John was identified as of "Miller Hill" in 1826 when son Richard was born and of "Adamsrow" in 1829 when son John was born.

A search of O.P.R. Marriages birth records from 1770 - 1790 in Midlothian, reveal three births for a John Somerville. A similar search for "John Sommerville" had no returns. The following record for John Somerville, born June 11, 1773, son of THOMAS SOMERVILLE/MARGARET GILCHRIST (FR573) of Newton, Midlothian, GROS: 696/00 0020 0184 is the most likely candidate.

Thomas was schoolmaster in Newton. He was born Nov 23 1743 at Inveresk, Midlothian and married Dec 7 1770 to Margaret Gilchrist (born Dec 28 1749 at Newton, Midlothian) Margaret was the daughter of Rev. David Gilchrist (1721-1770) and Elizabeth Moffet (1729-1751) whose father was Rev. Thomas Moffet.

Thanks for your help.

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Inverness / Re: Trying to locate birth place - Janet MacInnes
« on: Saturday 18 February 17 14:02 GMT (UK)  »
There were several MacInnes/is families on the Isle of Rum and Eigg in the 1764-5 Census of the Small Isles. Many of those on Rum eventually immigrated to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada when Rum was cleared in the 1820s.

Unfortunately there are no parish registers for the Small Isles so if the marriage took place there you are likely not going to find a record of it.

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Midlothian / Re: Burial Index's for Newbattle and Newton
« on: Sunday 18 October 15 22:16 BST (UK)  »
I believe the one gravestone on Plot A194 are my folks. -Thanks very much!

Would there be any record of a Rev. David Gilchrist (1721-1770) who may have died while at that charge?

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Inverness / Allan Macdonald & Mary MacLean North Uist
« on: Friday 18 September 15 13:05 BST (UK)  »
Trying to learn more on the ancestry of Allan MacDonald (probably born before 1780) on North Uist - his father may have been John MacDonald. Allan married Mary MacLean. Their eldest known child was Norman Macdonald born abt 1799. Other children were Mary (1800), Catherine ( ?), James Edward ( ? ), Susan (? ), John W. (1808).

The family emigrated to Nova Scotia around 1822 and settled in a rural area known as Stewartdale, Inverness county. Allan died in 1843 and Mary in 1855.

Allan had a relative, perhaps a brother, Donald who left Uist and settled at Red Head, Baddeck, Nova Scotia. He was grandfather to Rev. J. D. Nelson MacDonald.

I would be very interested to learn more origins of this North Uist family.

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