Scarborough Evening News: names look up

[goff153]

Thanks Emma that would be really good.  My ancestors were named ELAND.  Regards

[musictrish]

Hi Emma
 would you add the name PELHAM to you list please.

Thanks
musictrish

[soulsister]

Indeed!


Emma

[charlotteCH]

Hi Emma,
 Could you please add to your list Margaret Diana HASTINGS who died in Whitby Hospital on 2 June 1988 aged 69 but looked decades older?  She maybe in some local papers from time to time as she had become eccentric [ that's a mild statement]  and in Whitby, Filey, Scarborough was known as Miss H...  She sometimes slept rough even tho she owned property in Whitby...
She'd been thru RADA and could put on various voices... there may be articles about her in the Magistrate' Courts about rental properties.
Anything that bobbed up would be of interest and thank you.

charlotte

[Ceeoh]

Hi Emma
Are you looking at names of the present or are there sometimes references to times of old?

My great grandfather John Porteous, born 1815 in Lockerbie, was, at the 1881 census, living at the Black Bull Inn in Pickering, he and his second wife were employed as gatekeepers on the railway.

I don't know what happened to him from then on until his death in Scarborough, 25 Beaconsfield Street, 14 July 1895 at the age of 80 (although his death certificate says he was 78).  He died of senile decay and cystitis and is interred in a paupers grave in Manor Road Cemetery.

When or why he was in Scarborough I don't know.  Why a paupers grave I don't know, he had five children from his second marriage!  Seemingly he had no contact with the four children of his first marriage (with my great grandmother Jane Hall) after the marriage to his second wife Ann in 1851.

Perhaps you may have something on Beaconsfield Road or  the Manor Road Cemetery.

Many thanks

Ceeoh

[soulsister]

Hi Ceeoh,

I will keep a look out for your surname. I look through all the paper so both past and present. So far seen no mentions of the names people are looking for me, but one day maybe!

Kind Regards

Emma