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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Ken,
This is a rather wild guess, so very possibly wrong.
There is a similar name to Gualnacarrie.
It looks to be a farmstead - Culnacuries.
And is SW of Comrie village.
(in part of Strowan Parish
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Ken,
This is a rather wild guess, so very possibly wrong.
There is a similar name to Gualnacarrie.
It looks to be a farmstead - Culnacuries.
And is SW of Comrie village.
(in part of Strowan Parish
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Jack Mills
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Muthill and Comrie
Hi Ken: I typed in Muthill Perthshire and got a really good site with pictures of the church and also heads of household etc.
I think that the name Cumrie at the top of the page might indicate that
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Hi Ken: I typed in Muthill Perthshire and got a really good site with pictures of the church and also heads of household etc.
I think that the name Cumrie at the top of the page might indicate that
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Janet Farmer
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Thank you to all who have offered help so far. I see now why I was puzzled.
I have viewed a film showing the Muthill parish registers (Spine of book clearly says “Muthill – B1704-1819;
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Thank you to all who have offered help so far. I see now why I was puzzled.
I have viewed a film showing the Muthill parish registers (Spine of book clearly says “Muthill – B1704-1819;
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Ken Harrison
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#401
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
I sent a reply to this, with an image, a couple of hours ago but it has not yet come to me.
Did anyone else see it?
Ken
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I sent a reply to this, with an image, a couple of hours ago but it has not yet come to me.
Did anyone else see it?
Ken
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Ken Harrison
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#400
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Hi Ken
Can you send more information onArchibald Sinclair date of birth, parents, wife we might be able to find thefamily. If you look for the family you might be able to find the place.
Is he
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Hi Ken
Can you send more information onArchibald Sinclair date of birth, parents, wife we might be able to find thefamily. If you look for the family you might be able to find the place.
Is he
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Josephine Conray
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
I know it very well. When I was a child we often went to St Fillans (in the parish of Comrie), where the owner of the hotel was a friend of my parents. Later, my aunt and uncle retired to Comrie and I
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I know it very well. When I was a child we often went to St Fillans (in the parish of Comrie), where the owner of the hotel was a friend of my parents. Later, my aunt and uncle retired to Comrie and I
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Anne Burgess
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Hi Ken
Muthill is a small place, smaller than Comrie and much smaller than Crieff. I would be very surprised if these other places had ever come under Muthill for any administrative
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Hi Ken
Muthill is a small place, smaller than Comrie and much smaller than Crieff. I would be very surprised if these other places had ever come under Muthill for any administrative
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John Kemplen
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Hi Ken FamilySearch gives some clues on Muthill Parish and Comrie Parish. If your family are like mine, they might have gone to different churches at different times. And have you seen the Name
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Hi Ken FamilySearch gives some clues on Muthill Parish and Comrie Parish. If your family are like mine, they might have gone to different churches at different times. And have you seen the Name
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Seymour Hosking
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Thank you, John.
I knew that most of those locales were close to Muthill, but I’m still wondering whether they would have been “part of” Muthill and so BDMs would have been recorded in the
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Thank you, John.
I knew that most of those locales were close to Muthill, but I’m still wondering whether they would have been “part of” Muthill and so BDMs would have been recorded in the
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Ken Harrison
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Oops, sorry Ken, the old maps are on the National Library of Scotland website, not Scotland's Places or Canmore.
John
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Oops, sorry Ken, the old maps are on the National Library of Scotland website, not Scotland's Places or Canmore.
John
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John Kemplen
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Re: COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
Ken
You can find all of these places except Gualnacarrie with a simple search on Google Maps. A few miles west of Perth you come to the small town of Crieff, and most of the places you
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Ken
You can find all of these places except Gualnacarrie with a simple search on Google Maps. A few miles west of Perth you come to the small town of Crieff, and most of the places you
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John Kemplen
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COMRIE parish or MUTHILL?
I’d appreciate advice from someone who knows Perthshire.
I’m looking at a page in a book which is named parochial registers of MUTHILL, Perth but the writing at the top of the register page says
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I’d appreciate advice from someone who knows Perthshire.
I’m looking at a page in a book which is named parochial registers of MUTHILL, Perth but the writing at the top of the register page says
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Ken Harrison
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Re: Maiden surnames
Somewhere in this thread someone wrote, "It is a relatively modern thing, and not just in Scotland, for married women to continue to use their maiden surname."
This is incorrect and potentially
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Somewhere in this thread someone wrote, "It is a relatively modern thing, and not just in Scotland, for married women to continue to use their maiden surname."
This is incorrect and potentially
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Anne Burgess
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Re: Unity Simpson
Hi Ken
Thank you for your information. I am not related to this family.
I was trying to help Ian MacLeod with some information as I dohave Ancestry and Happy to help anyone. I did not find much so
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Hi Ken
Thank you for your information. I am not related to this family.
I was trying to help Ian MacLeod with some information as I dohave Ancestry and Happy to help anyone. I did not find much so
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Josephine Conray
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McVORANs
My Margaret McVORAN changed her name to MORRISON.
She married Peter CURRIE, d, on March of 1835. He was killed by a falling tree on the 5 acre lots in Nottawasaga Twp., Duntroon, Ontario.
They
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My Margaret McVORAN changed her name to MORRISON.
She married Peter CURRIE, d, on March of 1835. He was killed by a falling tree on the 5 acre lots in Nottawasaga Twp., Duntroon, Ontario.
They
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Malcolm Campbell
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Re: Unity Simpson
Ian & Josephine:
I’m very interested in this thread, even tho I may not be able to add much.
I have a lot of McVorans (various spellings) in my database, including many (like my own direct line)
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Ian & Josephine:
I’m very interested in this thread, even tho I may not be able to add much.
I have a lot of McVorans (various spellings) in my database, including many (like my own direct line)
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Ken Harrison
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Re: Maiden surnames
Unlike England and Wales a woman retains her Own/Maiden name upon Marriage. It is usually as a matter of convenience that she takes her husbands Surname. This is very useful when looking at
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Unlike England and Wales a woman retains her Own/Maiden name upon Marriage. It is usually as a matter of convenience that she takes her husbands Surname. This is very useful when looking at
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Les Horn
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Re: Maiden Name or Married Name
I have never heard of anything quite so formal.
It is perfectly true that a married woman in Scotland doed not legally change her surname. In all later documents she is formally referred to as 'xxx
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I have never heard of anything quite so formal.
It is perfectly true that a married woman in Scotland doed not legally change her surname. In all later documents she is formally referred to as 'xxx
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Anne Burgess
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Re: Unity Simpson
Hi Ian
This is the only thing that I can find on your Dougald. Thereare 23 family trees on Ancestry for Dugal but they all have the same informationBaptise at Killarrow, Argyll and born 6 nov 1783
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Hi Ian
This is the only thing that I can find on your Dougald. Thereare 23 family trees on Ancestry for Dugal but they all have the same informationBaptise at Killarrow, Argyll and born 6 nov 1783
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Josephine Conray
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#385
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Re: Maiden surnames
Hi Jocelyn
Good advice. We have to be open to all possibilities in our genealogical research. It's so easy to hit brick walls that we need to be looking at all possible ways round
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Hi Jocelyn
Good advice. We have to be open to all possibilities in our genealogical research. It's so easy to hit brick walls that we need to be looking at all possible ways round
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