Aberdeenshire Surnames: Bain & Cheyne

[flst]

You could contact the ANEFHS & ask them if they have any unpublished transcripts for Longside.These would only be ones that heve been submitted so will be incomplete. The registar at Peterhead may have the burial records & could give you a lair number & hopefully a map. If you do get to that stage I am willing to go there & take photos for you.
flst

[RedMystic]

That's a great idea, flst! I'll get on it right away.

Thank you for the offer to photograph the headstones if I find them. 

MODIFIED: Message has been sent. Based on your suggestion, I looked at the ANEFHS listings more thoroughly & determined that Longside is one of the unpublished cemeteries. My hope is that it makes a response and easy one for them.

[flst]

I had a look on Ancestry & the only Cheynes in Balnamoon I found was Mary Hellen Cheyne age 4, with her grandfather Alexander Murray.
flst

[RedMystic]

Thanks flst. That's the right record. I should have read that more thoroughly; not the right grandfather.

Mary Helen Cheyne was daughter to my avatar.

As I understand it, she was living with her grandparents (John Cheyne / Helen Ironside) and her aunt (Mary Ann).  I'm not sure who else was in the house at the time.

[flst]

There is a family tree on Ancestry which has lots of photos & sources on it. Have you seen it? The glaring obvious ommission is the 1891 census. Looks like they couldn't find it on Ancestry either. Given that scotlandspeople uses the original census returns & not transcriptions have you searched there?
flst 

[RedMystic]

Thank's flst. That's very likely my tree on *A*.

[flst]

Given that scotlandspeople uses the original census returns & not transcriptions have you searched there?

Just wondering!
flst

[Flattybasher9]

RM, have you read this :-

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cheyne/p641.htm

You need to scroll down a bit on the page


Regards

Malky

[RedMystic]

Hi again flst & Malky

Sorry for the few hours of delayed response. I had to run into town.

flst, I'm so pathetically bad at ScotlandsPeople searches that I admit that I didn't think to go there - but will do that now. I just keep thinking, since the Cheyne Family site indicates that they got the 1891 census from LDS, that I should be able to as well.

Malky, I have seen Jim Cheyne's site - it's marvelous.  I've offered him my photos - have one of everyone in the family of John Cheyne / Helen Ironside except youngest daughter  Mary Ann. We corresponded several times about 18 months ago, but his more recent bounce-back message advised of delayed responses & he hasn't been in touch recently.

Jim hasn't categorically linked my Helen Cheyne who came to Canada in 1910 to the Helen he has noted as daughter of John Cheyne/Helen Ironside, but I know her to be so. Not only are my family's old pictures identified as such, but now that I have the pictures of the other siblings (including the same one Jim has of eldest son William in the jaunty top hat), I think I can be absolutely confident in the family connection.

Neil Pirie's family site is very good as well. It connects to the Cheyne family through John Cheyne's son William. Neil is a welcome wealth of info & we have a great time sharing things back & forth.

Now that I've nailed the photos of the family members (still have a few to upload to my *A* tree), I'm working on little bits & pieces around the edges ...  like missing census data & a few death dates (John's daughter "Jeanne" Jane b1866 & daughter Mary Ann b1868).

I am also very curious about the boy in the house in the 1881 census:  Charles Leel, age 6, grandson and scholar. Jim Cheyne & Neil Pirie both indicate that "parentage is to be determined". I have the birth record for this child, and I can't make hide nor hair of a grandchild connection to the Cheynes.

Oh well, there's never a dull moment in the land of family history research.   

I really appreciate the interest you both take in my searches. It is much appreciated.