Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

31/1/2006

Major Accessions to Repositories

Major Accessions to Repositories in 1995 relating to Scottish History.for more click here

The McEwan Family

The McEwan family has been traced back to the early 18th Century, residing in Madderty and Fowlis Wester, both in Perthshire.for more click here

My ancestors: Adcock, Aitchison, Champnes, Mundell, Mylne, Rennie

Above is a sketch of Camilla Windus MUNDELL, daughter of Alexander MUNDELL and Susanna CHAMPNEYS, drawn by her daughter Annie Camilla AITCHISON later to become Mrs ADCOCK. It is planned that the family history will be issued in book form in 2006 - 100 year’s since Annie Camilla Aitchison (who married Frank ADCOCK, a solicitor and breeder of Bulldogs.for more click here

THE HISTORY OF THE SHARP FAMILY OF ABERDEENSHIRE

The meaning of the name does not seem to be known, but it first appears in Scotland in the fourteenth century, when a William Sharp is recorded as a tenant of the Earl of Douglas in 1376. In 1439, a Patrick Sharp was recorded in the Aberdeen Burgh records. The name is nowadays fairly common all over Scotland. for more click here

Major archaeological excavation to start at city centre kirk

Archaeological experts from all over the world are hoping to find the remains of a 12th-century church at Aberdeen’s historic Kirk of St Nicholas when a major excavation project gets underway today (Monday).

Archaeologists from Aberdeen City Council will lead the team of 12, who have come to Aberdeen from countries including Egypt and Spain as well as the UK. for more click here

Scottish actor to unveil new gravestone

Mick Southworth, CEO of The Works UK Distribution, today announced that Scottish actor James Cosmo is to unveil a new gravestone in Greyfriars Kirkyard at 10.30am on February 2.
The gravestone is a memorial for James Brown, former sexton of Greyfriars, who tended the kirkyard during the time that Greyfriars Bobby was in residence. James Brown died in 1868, and although he is buried in the Kirkyard, he was never given a gravestone. for more click here

30/1/2006

The Genealogy of the Balfour Family.

Alexander Balfour of Inchrye. Born 1470. Died before 1518 aged between forty and fifty. In charge of the King’s cellar (Master of the Cellar) 1499 and 1501. King James IV gave him in lease a tack of Inchrye, near Denmylne in 1502. Confirmed in feu ferme 1510. Married, probably early in 16th century, Janet Wemyss. for more click here

The Thorburn-Macfie Society

The Thorburn-Macfie Family Society in Sweden was founded in 1937 by descendants of William Thorburn and his wife Jessy (née Macfie) who in July 1823 removed to Sweden from Leith in Scotland.
William was the eldest son of William Thorburn of Leith, an industrious and well known tea merchant. In 1813 he (William Jr.) married Jessy Macfie, the youngest daughter of Robert Macfie of Greenock and Langhouse. for more click here

The Scottish Genealogy Society

With over 6,000 titles, the Society’s Library is undoubtedly the largest Scottish genealogy library in the world and, as such, is a credit to the founding members of the Society who had the foresight to begin the work of collection in 1953, as well as to the Honorary Librarians and others who have continued their work. Now, over 50 years later, their efforts have borne further fruit in the publication of this index on the Internet.for more click here

Sinclairs of South Leith

So near and yet so far”! That phrase has a familiar ring to anyone who is involved with family history! There are not many miles between Rosslyn, “mediaeval strong-hold of the Sinclair chief of the ‘lordly line of high St Clair’”, and the narrow wynds of South Leith the seaport of Edinburgh. Yet what a difference in social class and position between the lords and warriors who lived in that famed castle and the very ordinary people who lived as tradespeople in the seaport. for more click here

 
 

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