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Hello Susan, Alexander's sister Mary was my 3 x great grandmother and I haven't been able to find a birth entry for either of them, or their siblings. As Sarah says, there may be a gap in the records. One of the interesting things I did find was an obituary for their mother, Isabella Cairns, in the ...

Hello Alan,

I've had a couple of dodgy sultana cakes in Edinburgh with the consistency of a house brick, fair play to Mr Robertson for being able to break one, accidentally or otherwise..

I also wonder what the definition of 'driving furiously' was?!

Best wishes

Brian

Hi Karen Good to hear from you, I changed email addresses a while ago. I have been dipping in and out of family history but happy to reconnect and share any information that I might have that would be useful to you. The paternity action that I mentioned in my last post here was interesting and I've ...

It's brilliant when this happens - a bit of lateral thinking and another mystery solved!

Best wishes

Brian

Hi, I know that this is an old thread, but I am quite excited! I have just found an index entry for a Sheriff Court Paternity Case at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in 1835 lodged by Margaret Aitken, Servant to James McLean (Innkeeper) at Nine Mile Burn against Thomas Stark, Farm Servant of Brunstane. I ha...

Smashing! I've just got back into doing some research, so have been burning credits like nobody's business!

Thanks

Brian

Hi, I just came across this tonight - haven't been on the site for a while. Looking at the 1841 Gorbals Census on Ancestry, there are loads of people with just 'Cotton Factory' given as their occupation and others as e.g Winder Cotton Factory", "Card Sharper Cotton Factory" and so on. These haven't ...

Hi Burnside, Thank for for the extra info - it's another place to look :) I managed to stop by Bellaghy in May this year for a pitstop on our way to spend a couple of days in Tyrone and Donegal. We managed to find the location of the house of my Burnside relations, as a result of knocking on a few d...

She was informed that as his widow had not requested them at the time of his death, that they had been destroyed. Hi, This is curious. The MOD Medals Office states: " World War 1 medals - After World War 1, all campaign medals were automatically issued to the medal earner or, if deceased, to the ne...

Hi Laura

My apologies - I misread your post and thought you were just looking for where in Midlothian Abbeyhill was.

Glad AndrewP was paying more attention. That'll teach me not to reply to posts while concentrating on my lunch

Best wishes

Brian