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HeWho* has failed to mention that he has exactly the same thread on RootsChat. He has a few replies. Nothing to stop him doing that but it would have been nice to know.

Does anyone know of a list of such places or have experience of them.? Until recently I wrongly believed that there was no such thing within the boundary of asylum grounds. I am talking about areas that had gravestones rather than areas where people may have been buried in unmarked graves. I was awa...

Hello psnam, It was quite a surprise to get your post. I am sorry to tell you that you appear to be mixing up two separate MacLennans. My William was born in 1903 on Benbecula district in the former county of Inverness. His birth was registered with the middle name Ewen and he seemed to use it up to...

Hello Suksel, I am very sorry that I have taken so long to reply to your post. I do generally make a point of replying to every poster on my thread but somehow you passed me by. Do you have the obituaries I am seeking.? Do they exist as far as you are aware.? My main interest is the Langwill and Rid...

Just to report that I sent a second email yesterday (9 Feb) to Dundee Archives and got an immediate reply as follows - " We have been asked by a few other researchers over the years about this property and the assumption is that it had some connection with Royal Dundee Liff Hospital. There certainly...

WilmaM and Currie Many thanks to both of you for the very prompt responses. The obituaries, if they exist, remain elusive. I expected to see them in a newspaper or as part of a funeral notice and still do not understand the reference to their existence in family history centres or affiliate librarie...

I am looking for a copy of the obituaries for the following husband and wife - John Wylie Riddell who died in Bay of Plenty in 1947 aged 70 and Rebecca Adelaide Riddell nee Crawford who died somewhere in New Zealand in 1958 aged 78. Both were born in Ireland. There is a gravestone for John in Old Te...

Chambs, I appreciate that this is your first post to TalkingScot but it probably would have been better to create a separate thread with Isabella's name prominent in the heading. People are attracted to names/surnames because they may relate to someone in their family tree. The question you are aski...

Falkyrn I am very grateful for the effort you have put in to answering my topic. I realise that local government issues like this would have many running for the hills. My list of dates purely related to 'Counties of Cities'. I had always presumed that the individual areas were already 'Cities' at t...

Falkyrn Thank you for providing further information. It's interesting that you mentioned the 'Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929'. As you say it did not change the county of the city areas. However, it was the first time that they all had been listed together in a LG (Scotland) Act. For that reaso...