Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis (which we’ve mentioned previously here and here) is now scanned and available to be read in its entirety online now. For some reason it can’t be viewed through Google Books but from the Open Library website despite it originally coming from Google. No matter, find it here. I’m going to update some of the older posts with links to the relevant pages. Note that it is the second edition they have online while we have the first edition. I don’t believe there are any real changes genealogy-wise, only one . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis now online
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Maria Bainbrigge (alternatively spelled Bainbrigg, or Bainbridge) was born on 24 August 1737, according to my last researches (thanks to a lady named Helen). According to a tantalising glimpse (via Google Books) of grainy text from a book entitled “Leicestershire Pedigrees and Royal Descents” by William George Dimock Fletcher, 1887, Maria married Richard Loveday of Hammersmith and had EIGHT children. So far I’ve found just two – William Loveday b BEF 1763, and Lambert Richard Loveday (1763-1843), later to become Lt General Loveday, and husband to Anne Louise D’Esterre. Finding the other six children is on my To-Do list. . . . → Read More: Maria Bainbrigge b 1737 Joan had bought the album in jumble sale in Shere, Surrey about 25 years ago and she had always intended to find out . . . → Read More: Shaw-Watters Wedding Album As mentioned in the last post there was two circular letters published in Oor Ain Folk. The second is transcribed below. From pages 266 to 270. The next was written a full decade after the foregoing, and the observant reader will see that in the interim death had been busy, and that our hitherto happy and united family was beginning to feel the common fate of all merely earthly associations and institutions. 1st January 1884, Warepa, Otago, N.Z. My Dear Mamma, and all the Members of the Family, big and little,— . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Circular Letter from 1884 |
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