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By Roz, on February 9th, 2010% Taking a break from the NLA website (on the advice of my optician) I began re-investigating the other Inglis family; namely the ancestors and siblings of Jessie Anne Inglis, who married Alexander Brand Inglis.
Wanting to be thorough I revisited the FIBIS website to add sources for the data I have collected so far. FIBIS (Families in British India) was my first port of call, as the Inglis family, both Jessie’s and Alexander’s in fact, seemed to be drawn to the Indian subcontinent during the 1800s.
. . . → Read More: The British in India
By John, on March 30th, 2008% 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
By John, on February 25th, 2008% In Oor Ain Folk James Inglis prints two examples of the type of circular letter that his family used to send:
I hope that the reader may make some allowances as he runs his eye through what was certainly never intended for publication of this sort; my only excuse for now reprinting these old circular letters it the belief that others may perhaps be fired to follow our example; and if the pleasure given to some loved ones be even measurably near to what our random letters gave, I will not have given the hint for naught.
At the . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Circular Letter from 1874
By John, on January 15th, 2008% The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his brother Alexander Brand Inglis.
Alick, as he was known, is Roz’s direct ancestor, her great-great-grandfather. The extract below we have previously published because of that fact. I have, however, expanded it with the inclusion of a few more paragraphs which are semi-relevant.
From pages 255 to 257:
The next in rotation was Alexander, a loyal, loving soul, possessed of more than ordinary perseverance and force of character; and his story, too, would be worth the telling, had I the time . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Alexander Brand Inglis (1839-1886)
By Roz, on December 7th, 2006% It’s all too easy to assume that the whole world and its secrets are to be found on the internet.
But after weeks of frustrated efforts trying to find out more about my great grandfather’s second wife, I gave up on the web and walked to the local library.
Upstairs in the reference section I found the entire collection of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and also the full set of “Who Was Who” and Index, all published by A&C Black, London. If you find an ancestor in the former, then congratulations, you have a famous (or . . . → Read More: The Library: technically known as a “good thing”
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