We are looking for Ogston/Thomson/Anderson monuments in Peterhead. This is a bit of a puzzle and we sure wish we were more local. On our last visit to the area...
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pauladixon23
Jun 13, 2006 11:00 pm
Hi All, Does anyone know if there is still a farm in Crimond called Crimongorth farm? Have tried looking on old maps but cannot locate it. Some of my Barclay...
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Kenmalley4@...
Jun 13, 2006 11:28 pm
Yes it quite a large estate just out side Crimond towards Fraserburgh it actually pronounced CRIMONMOGATE between the A952 Fraserburgh/Peterhead turning on to...
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Margaret Hector
mmnorman1955
Jun 14, 2006 12:57 am
Hi All and Paula in particular, I am interested in a family of Barclays who were masons. They seemed to move around Aberdeenshire but were in Huntly around...
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pauladixon23
Jun 14, 2006 11:42 am
Hi Margaret, William Barclay was born in Crimond in 1801 the son of an innkeeper, he moved to Peterhead c1840 where the family lived for about 80 years then ...
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pauladixon23
Jun 14, 2006 11:48 am
Hi Kenny, Many thanks for your reply. Have just found Crimongorth on an old map - it is just southwest of Crimond. (Didn't scan far enough in different ...
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Cci
catherinecvj...
Jun 16, 2006 1:46 pm
Hi group, How are you all. This a Vessels entry from the 1861 census. The christian names looks like Skelton. No one is related to me. Catherine 1861 ship City...
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Carolyn Morrisey
iwb53omb
Jul 9, 2006 8:45 am
Hi, Does anyone know when the old Drill Hall, that used to stand at the southern entrance of the town, was demolished? I read in a book it was pulled down to...
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Bob Kamula
rsk4rivers
Jul 10, 2006 8:50 am
My first message since joining the group. Thanks for the chance to contribute. I am researching the Imlay (Imlah?) family and Thom family. My great...
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Hazel Holt
weelass1
Jul 10, 2006 5:55 pm
Hi Carolyn, The memorial is still there but not sure when the Old Drill Hall was pulled down. I can ask around for you and let you know. Hazel [Non-text...
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Margaret Hector
mmnorman1955
Jul 10, 2006 6:06 pm
Hi all, and especially Bob, I am interested in the Mill of Auquharney. On the night of the 1891 Census James HAY Head (76) Woolmill Manager, Jane HAY Wife...
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Ray Hennessy
ray_hennessy
Jul 10, 2006 10:05 pm
Margaret Hector wrote: I am interested in the Mill of Auquharney. On the night of the 1891 Census James HAY Head (76) Woolmill Manager, Jane HAY Wife (77), and...
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Carolyn Morrisey
iwb53omb
Jul 10, 2006 10:26 pm
Thanks Hazel. I'd appreciate that. I tried to find an email address for the museum, but without luck. I thought someone there would know. Carolyn ... -- ...
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MARGIE DAVIDSON
margie_crude...
Jul 11, 2006 3:08 am
Hi, Don't have the information to hand as I am in the States at present however at one point the Water of Cruden drove 7 mills from the Mill of Auchleuchries...
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David Davidson
dave_subsea
Jul 11, 2006 9:56 am
Here is a link to the Sharp family there is some interesting facts on the Auqharney area which is near Cruden Bay Best Regards Dave Davidson...
Hi Margaret Further to my last, I've had a look at Thomson's 1832 map. It is notoriously inaccurate but it does tend to get the burns and mills roughly in the...
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MARGIE DAVIDSON
margie_crude...
Jul 11, 2006 12:31 pm
. Hi Ray, Now I am confused! not an altogether unusual occurence these days. If I travel from Hatton up the back road to the main Fraserburgh road then I turn...
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Allan Harrop
allan344789
Jul 11, 2006 10:50 pm
Hi there, What a very small world. My Gr Grandfather, Alexander Kinghorn and his family were in Auquharney, Cotton of Oldtown, Ardally parish at the 1871...
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mlarooij
Jul 12, 2006 12:08 am
I am confused too, but then I always have been.. I am interested in the Auquharney House which was there c1750. Is that the one which is now a nursing home? Or...
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Ray Hennessy
ray_hennessy
Jul 12, 2006 12:14 am
Eileen [at a.harrop@... ] wrote: My Gr Grandfather, Alexander Kinghorn and his family were in Auquharney, Cotton of Oldtown, Ardally parish at the...
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Ray Hennessy
ray_hennessy
Jul 12, 2006 12:30 am
Hi Marion Auquharney House doesn't show on Thomson's 1832 map. Although he was unreliable in naming locations and the routes of roads, he generally seems to...
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rsk4rivers
Jul 12, 2006 3:31 am
Hi Margaret and all those interested in the Mill The Mill of Auquharney was located on the creek immediately west of the farm, Mains of Auquharney. The farm...
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mlarooij
Jul 12, 2006 12:00 pm
Thanks Ray, Every little helps, if at least to sort out the mental picture..all I know if that a Sir David HAY, a doctor, was served heir to Auquharneypriot to...
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Ray Hennessy
ray_hennessy
Jul 12, 2006 2:57 pm
... Auquharneypriot to 1696. He was then in Edinburgh though. Unless he had a previous marriage he had only daus. How the John HAY I am interested in got to...
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mlarooij
Jul 13, 2006 2:33 am
Hi Ray, I have tried to find who David;s parents were but there are a number of Davids & haven't placed him yet. Or John. I agree, likely there is a nephew or...
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Ray Hennessy
ray_hennessy
Jul 13, 2006 10:45 am
Hi Marion Yes there are well documented cases of families in the nobility passing estates down through the female line but they were the exception. Your case...
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Margaret Hector
mmnorman1955
Jul 13, 2006 11:52 am
A big thanks to all those amazing people who go to great lenghts to help paint pictures for me. The maps have been a great help and the accompanying...
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Cci
catherinecvj...
Jul 13, 2006 12:58 pm
Hi Marion, I found this. Good luck, Catherine Either the creditors of Alexander Forbes of Ludquharn or the purchaser of Ludquharn, Sir John Guthrie, would...
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mlarooij
Jul 13, 2006 9:22 pm
Hi Catherine, Many thanks! Looks like something happened in between David & John. I don't understand the shades of meaning of these sasine terms (heir of...
