June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Paul E]

Thought we might have been - or at least you had been!     I just saw your posting on the South African board (it came up on Google) so I now see we have this.  I like the right year of birth though.

Paul



Sorry MR - forgot about the Claude W debate (and Annie has kindly reminded me!) ... I'll get my coat!

[MaryA]

Well done everyone reaching that amazing milestone!

I'm off to sunny Wales on Saturday (forecast for a heatwave    ) and before that need a little time to pack and get ready, so I'm ducking out of this now.  It's been great fun, lots of luck to you all, hope you get all the little threads tied up and I'll check back to see how you did towards the end of the month.

If anybody wants an up to date copy of the Word Doc. for this thread, email me before Friday evening (GMT) and I'll send it to you before I go.

Miss me!
 
Mary

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Leckie Ewing

http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/100men/gm34.htm

and a picture too!!

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Now we're running the country...............

http://www.alba.org.uk/westminster/lords.html

This should start something

Annie

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Not on the list but with a connection to the Bank of Scotland - I'm sure he's connected

26 January 2003
Death of Vicount Younger of Leckie (George Younger), Conservative politician and bank chairman. He served seven years as Secretary of State for Scotland during Margaret Thatcher's Westminster premiership and as Defence Secretary in both the Heath and Thatcher governments. He was chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland from 1990 to 2001

Annie

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Honourary Colonels of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


1896.08.05   Walter John Francis (Erskine), Earl of Mar and Kellie, Viscount Fentoun, Lord Erskine of Direletowne
1932.08.05   Hon. Brig-Gen. Sir Norman A. Orr Ewing, Bt., DSO, ADC
   
Lt.-Col. (Hon. Col.) The Viscount Younger of Leckie, OBE, TD, DL [to 1967]

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/volmil-scotland/vinf/ash-7.htm

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Baronetage


ORR-EWING of Ballikinran,Stirling         
8 Mar 1886   UK   1   Archibald Orr-Ewing   4 Jan 1818   27 Nov 1893   75
MP for Dumbartonshire 1868-1892         
27 Nov 1893      2   William Orr-Ewing   14 Feb 1848   20 Aug 1903   55
20 Aug 1903      3   Archibald Ernest Orr-Ewing   22 Feb 1853   21 Apr 1919   66
21 Apr 1919      4   Norman Archibald Orr-Ewing   23 Nov 1880   26 Mar 1960   79
26 Mar 1960      5   Ronald Archibald Orr-Ewing   14 May 1912   14 Sep 2002   90
14 Sep 2002      6   Archibald Donald Orr-Ewing   20 Dec 1938

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 Baronetage

ORR-EWING of Hendon,Middlesex         
27 Jun 1963   UK   1   Charles Ian Orr-Ewing,Baron Orr-Ewing   10 Feb 1912   19 Aug 1999   87
          
19 Aug 1999      2   Alistair Simon Orr-Ewing   10 Jun 1940

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Do we have this already

Archibald Orr-Ewing, Esquire, of Ballikinrain, is the seventh son of the late William Ewing, Esquire, of Ardvullin, Dunoon, by Susan, daughter of John Orr, Esquire, of Underwood, Paisley. He was born in 1819; and, in 1847, married Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of James Reid, Esquire, of Berriedale and Caldercruix. He has, with other issue, William, born in 1848; and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Mr. Orr-Ewing was elected M.P. for Dumbartonshire in 1868.