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By Roz, on November 25th, 2006% One of the items we received last week was the book “Oor Ain Folk” by the Hon James Inglis. It’s subtitled “Being Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack Aboot Auld Times” and was published in 1894.
I’ve finished reading it and enjoyed it very much. It concentrates on James’s father, the Reverend Robert Inglis, and his part in the “Disruption” of the Scottish Church in 1843, as well as a collection of anecdotes about his family and other characters in and around Glenesk (or Lochlee). Most (non-family) anecdotes seem to revolve around whisky, the drinking of . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk
By Roz, on November 9th, 2006% I received a letter from my paternal grandfather, in relation to family history. He’s also keen and has lots of documentation, and as he is 98, is a wonderful first-hand source for information! With the letter came a copy of a family tree relating to the Nash family, and an explanation that they are related to the Watters side of things. Watters is his mother’s maiden name and, as per previous posts, you will note the aggravating lack of information we have for her. Yes, I could ask Grandad for more information, but part of me would like to discover . . . → Read More: Breaking Watters (ooh, nasty pun, sorry)
By Roz, on October 31st, 2006% Task: To consolidate and confirm data regarding Alexander Brand Inglis
The weekend threw up loads up extra information on the Inglis family, which John dealt with. I chose therefore to take what we had learnt from secondary sources on the internet (especially rootsweb.com) and build up a better and more solid picture of Colin Inglis’ father Alexander Brand Inglis.
Firstly, looking at the rootsweb.com data from the other researcher I realised that we had his birth date and baptism date mixed up, so we rectified that. He was actually born on 26th January 1839. Also, according to the rootsweb.com . . . → Read More: Alexander Brand Inglis
By John, on October 30th, 2006% I was trying to find out more information about Alexander Brand Inglis and his wife Jessie Ann. I found a Jessie A Inglis in the 1891 census as a widow, and then found an Alexander B Inglis who died a few years earlier, in 1886. It tied in so far but wasn’t enough evidence to prove that I was looking at the right ones. On the census Jessie A and most of her children were listed as being born in India (specifically Calcutta for the children) but daughter Ethel M was born in Edzell, Scotland. This was good news as . . . → Read More: The Full Story of that Waltzing Matilda Fact
By Roz, on October 29th, 2006% In Friday’s post we received the marriage certificate for Colin Inglis and Daisy Henderson (my father’s mother’s parents).
As we had already thought, they were married in Croydon in 1907 – but the certificate has given us confirmation of Daisy’s full name (we still can’t find her birth registry entry) and has also given us the names of both Colin and Daisy’s fathers.
Determined to find Daisy, my first task today has been to continue the search for her birth details.
The marriage certificate shows Daisy’s father’s name as John Crosbie Aitken Henderson, merchant. I therefore began . . . → Read More: Great Leaps Forwards (or is that Backwards?)
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