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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Monday 07 February 11 14:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Cathey
I don't know if this would the way Sancti accessed the Herald or not : but here is one method .
Google have added quite a lot of old papers to their news archive    . Some of the more recently added pages don't seem to have been  fully "OCR'd" yet - only some of the headlines are searchable  - however all  pages  are browse-able.

If searching via http://news.google.com/archivesearch/advanced_search  gives no hits, you can try  here :
http://news.google.com/newspapers

There you have a list of newspapers - click on the one you want and you can select by decade , year , month etc until you get the issue you want to read.

Having just done that , here is a link to  a page which has a death notice for William on it :

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DdQ-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=q0wMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1265%2C5570599

I haven't checked if there were as an article about his death in the paper.
Sally

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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 19:49 GMT (UK)  »
oops crossed post - sorry

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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 19:48 GMT (UK)  »
Monica- good find - I read it as Hurst too! and the name of the house appears to be Kinnersley ! Further up the page it says Frognal Lane . So really looks likely now.

There's a marriage on Ancestry dated 12 Jan 18989 of William Henry Mitchell aged 45 , bachelor, profession  "Esquire" , residence Hampstead , father William Mitchell (deceased) , to a Louise Taylor ,28 , Spinster, resident Hampstead, father John Mann Taylor Esquire,. Witnesses include an Edward Mitchell  

Sally

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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
Just realised you thought he was alive in 1909 - perhaps some effects were sent over ?

Just found on Ancestry under     "England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations");
an entry for William Henry Mitchell of Kinnersleigh, Frognal-Lane, Hampstead and 32a dn 32a Old Change.. he died on 21st Oct 1908 at Central Station Hotel Glasgow!  So you could  download his Death Cert from www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and check the parents' names  ( provided the informant knew who they were, of course)  ....

Hope it's the right chap.
Sally

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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 16:22 GMT (UK)  »
Given the 1915 business address, this looks like him in the Times:

Saturday, Oct 24, 1908;
Deaths:
MITCHELL, on the 21st Oct. very suddenly WILLIAM HENRY MITCHELL of Frognal Lane, Hampstead and 32, Old Change, EC aged 56? ( difficult to read last digit).
Funeral on Monday , 26th inst at 12:30 at West Hampstead Cemetery NW.   

Sally

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Scotland / Re: Mitchell
« on: Wednesday 02 February 11 15:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Cathey

There are some old English directories you can search at http://www.historicaldirectories.org .  If you enter Mitchell Berry as keywords , you will get some hits .... including one for "Mitchell & Berry " at 21 Bread Street , EC , London in the 1895 directory. They are listed as Warehousemen . At same address in 1899 directory and in 1915  at 32 Old Change, EC.
Included in the  1915 listing is:
 T A "Triplicate, Cent" T N's 808 and 4322 Central  .
I don't actually know what T A means ! T N I guess means telephone numbers. Which is good news - they might show up in the old BT directories on Ancestry as well.

Sally
 

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Scotland / Re: Agnes Robertson
« on: Tuesday 01 February 11 21:31 GMT (UK)  »
.. I think I was searching under Pitkerro !

James death:
The Scotsman - Wednesday, 30th July 1947, page 8
ROBERTSON.—At DUNDEE Royal Infirmary (the result of an accident. on 27th July 1947. JAMES ROBERTSON, " Inglemere," Pitkerro Road. Dundee,  late of Messrs Henry Boase & Co., ltd., Dundee, beloved husband of Helen Robertson Honeyman. Service at Dundee Crematorium to-day (Wednesday) at 2.30 p.m-All friends invited. 

Sally

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Scotland / Re: Agnes Robertson
« on: Tuesday 01 February 11 20:30 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry my post  missed a rather important bit  out of the Sturrock-Wood marriage above - Should have said :
 
STURROCK—WOOD.—At Bombay, on the 27th of July. GEORGE MUNRO STURROCK. of the Scottish Assam Tea Company, Kharikatia, Assam, son of the Hon. Mr George Sturrock. Director-Adviser , Public Works, Malaya, and Mrs Sturrock , Sydenham, Singapore, and grandson of Mr and Mrs James Robertson, Inglemere, Dundee , to LESLIE LOUISA CARTWRIGHT, daughter of the late WILLIAM H. WEST WOOD, of Palmerston Place, Edinburgh.

Oops !

Sally

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Scotland / Re: Agnes Robertson
« on: Tuesday 01 February 11 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
Oh thanks, but it was fun and cost me nuffin....

2 more entries from the Scotsman - verifies that her mother was a Helen , so hopefully the 1901  family is correct. But you have both parent's names , so it doesn't matter if iit isn't  I think.

The Scotsman - Wednesday, 7th June 1933, page 20
Golden Wedding Anniversaries:
ROBERTSON—HONEYMAN.—At 1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, on 6th June 1883, by the Rev. Dr Allison, Newington Parish Church, James Robertson, Newtyle, to HELEN, second daughter of THOMAS HONEYMAN, Esq., Dalry Mains, Edinburgh.—Present address, Inglemere, Pitkerro Road, Dundee.

The Scotsman - Wednesday, 31st July 1935, page 20
Marriages:
STURROCK—WOOD.—At Bombay, on the 27th of July. GEORGE MUNRO STURROCK. of the Scottish Assam Tea Company, Kharikatia, Assam, son of the Hon. Mr George Sturrock. Director-Adviser , Public Works, Malaya, and Mrs Sturrock , Sydenham, Singapore, and grandson of Mr and Mrs James Robertson, Inglemere, Dundee .

Sally

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