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Kincardineshire / Re: Chelsea Pensioners
« on: Thursday 08 July 10 22:57 BST (UK)  »
Further to my previous message Try the following web site of Colin Milnes and when on it check out articles where he has lists of Kincardineshire Militia web address is http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nescotland/index.html

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Kincardineshire / Re: Chelsea Pensioners
« on: Thursday 08 July 10 22:43 BST (UK)  »
I have found the list where my ancestor was mentioned and it was from a web site www.abdn66.freeserve.co.uk/militia2.htm which was headed Kincardineshire Volunteers Listings of those who volunteered to join the militia between the years 1798 to 1816 and which I have tried to enter tonight but it does not show up. The list I have is for Captain Robert Barclays Company probably the same Barclays associated with Brotherton Castle  and Im sorry to say that the name you are looking for isnt on this list
There was another site where I found that one of the Fotheringhams Alexander was wounded and shipped home from the Mysore war in India and the web site I believe was named Cindys List 
Sorry I wasnt of more help

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Kincardineshire / Re: Chelsea Pensioners
« on: Wednesday 07 July 10 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Regarding the list of pensioners ,to be honest it was such a long time ago that I forget whether it was off the internet or from the local library in Bervie
I will look through my bundle of handwritten records of which there are stacks and see if I can find the list which I had in print.
Will get back to you on that. What I do remember was that a Col.or Cpt Ogilvie was in charge of the section which had the three brothers Fotheringham.

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Kincardineshire / Re: sea pie
« on: Monday 22 March 10 22:03 GMT (UK)  »
Re Isles reply to web site It has changed to www.gourdon.org.uk and is Lizzie Souters recipe Enjoy

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Kincardineshire / Re: Chelsea Pensioners
« on: Saturday 20 March 10 09:32 GMT (UK)  »
Regarding my previous entry It may be of interest to those who have pensioners listed in their tree and from the east coast.
I found that my ancestor and his two brothers who were originally from Ellon in Aberdeenshire had enlisted in the Aberdeen and Kincardineshire Militia and were in 1802 stationed at the Barracks in Montrose  prior to entering the Scotch Regiment
The battle clasps on the medal which was the Military General Service Medal issued 1840 showed that the regiment, 94th Regiment of Foot had fought in the following battles of the Penninsular War viz:-Pyrenees, Victoria,Nivelle,Nive, Orthes and ToulouseHope the aforesaid may point you in the right direction for research The lists of names in the Militia can be got on the internet I was mistaken in the pension it was 1 shilling and threepence and may have been per day and not per week I am not sure on that

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Kincardineshire / Re: Chelsea Pensioners
« on: Friday 19 March 10 22:46 GMT (UK)  »
Re Chelsea Pensioners
Having one ancestor who was an out Chelsea pensioner living in Johnshaven I found that he received a pension of 1 shilling and sixpence per week and which was later reduced to 1 shilling per week. My ancestor was a corporal in what was first described as the Scotch Regiment then became the 94 Reg of Foot which later formed part of the Connaught Rangers. The aforesaid was in the Peninsular Wars and Queen Victoria later issued a medal in the 1840s to those pensioners  still living

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Kincardineshire / Re: FREEMAN in GOURDON & JOHNSHAVEN
« on: Thursday 18 March 10 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, My ancestor John Ritchie married Bervie 2nd October 1782 to Isobal Freeman daughter of James Freeman and Margaret Allan They had the following children Isobal b 1783,James b1786,John b1788, David b1791(my line) Elizabeth b1793 and William b 1796

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Scotland / Re: QUESTION: Did 'Huguenots' settle in Scotland?
« on: Saturday 28 November 09 21:00 GMT (UK)  »
I have only found this site and although I have not concrete proof the following may be of interest. On researching the family tree I found that the name Ritchie had been changed from the name Fatt back in the 1600s I thought that it may have been a nickname as was common in the fishing villages and still is but later found a web site in Australia where someone was researching Huguenot surnmaes and one of which was the name Fatt. The only reference to that name in Scotland although there are numerous Fatts in southeast England and London at that time was in Kincardineshire , firstly Stonehaven then they seemed to come down the coast as there are references in Kinneff, Gourdon (Bervie Parish) and then Montrose My family are recorded for the past 400/500 years at Gourdon. The Parish records of Bervie have a David Ritchie also recorded as David Fatt.  Although I don't actively research my family tree I have had correspondence from an elderly lady in America who was trying to find the origins of her surname, Fatt. When Iinformed her of what I had learned she was delighted and informed me that she had been brought up as a child in Germany and that her parents had taken her every Sunday to a Huguenot church . I have no further proof of whether the name is Huguenot. Hoping this might be of interest The Australian website of surnmames is www.aftc.com.au/Huguenot/Hug.html

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