Edinburgh - advice please.....

JosiahS · Post by **JosiahS** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:17 pm

I've been tracing my family tree and I have found that I am descended from Hittons and Meins in Edinburgh.

They seem to have married and been christened in 'Edinburgh Parish Church'

Could anyone tell me which church that would be and where in Edinburgh it is located.

Many thanks

Jos

Post by **AndrewP** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:54 pm

Hi Jos,

Welcome to TalkingScot.

Edinburgh Parish Church is an old name for what is now known as St Giles Cathedral in the High Street in Edinburgh.

http://www.stgilescathedral.org.uk/

All the best,

Andrew Paterson

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JosiahS · Post by **JosiahS** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:46 pm

Many thanks for that - I had no idea it started as a Parish Church!

All the best

Jos

Russell · Post by **Russell** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:42 pm

Old Edinburgh developed round the church and the Tolbooth was just down the road from it
The oldest part of the town grew up along the Royal Mile which stretches between Holyrood Palace and the Castle perched up on the crags.
I worked in Edinburgh nearly 50 years ago and describing it has made me homesick!!!
Wasn't a beautiful place in the 1700s though!

Russell

Thrall · Post by **Thrall** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:02 am

Hi Russell, you´d not be forgetting Jenny Geddes in her parish kirk would you?
See: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/ ... st147.html

Just about the only woman´s name I still remember from Scottish history, though there was a Mary I recall.

and perhaps a Flora?

Thrall, whose memory is fast on the wane.

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Russell · Post by **Russell** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:58 pm

Hi Thrall

Apparently as an infant my favourite lullaby was'Flora McDonald's Lament'

If you remember 1 Mary you must remember that she had 4 Marys
'
Yestre'en the Queen had four Marys
This nicht there'l be but three
There was Mary Beaton and Mary Smeaton
And Mary Carmichael and me'.

Turbulent times in the Kirk and out and to think some of my relatives lived through it!

TalkingScot has triggered lots of memories in me and, no doubt, is doing the same for you. Good for the long term recall.

Russell

rita · Post by **rita** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:55 am

Hi Russel
Did you have a typing error?
I'm thinking you meant Mary Seaton
Rita

marie · Post by **marie** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:38 pm

There's still a pub in Linlithgow named after The Four Marys!

Marie

nelmit · Post by **nelmit** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:20 am

Don't forget The Bunty Four Marys.

Annette M

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:29 am

I remember that Annette, though I was more of a "Mandy" reader on a weekly basis!
But I had an uncle who worked for DC Thomson so at Christmas I was given Mandy & Bunty annuals.

Best wishes
Lesley