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By John, on January 13th, 2008% The following article is an extract from Oor Ain Folk by James Inglis regarding his grandmother Catherine Collier.
From pages 4 and 5:
My grandmother belonged to a good old middle-class family, her maiden name being ‘Collier,’ and one of her brothers was a famous factor of one of the great county magnates, and was a well-known character in his day.
I can well remember the gentle old granny, with her stiff gown of watered-silk brocade, her knitted Shetland shawl, black silk mitts, and spotless, high, starched cap, under which her silvered hair gleamed like a . . . → Read More: Oor Ain Folk: Catherine Collier (1770-1861)
By Roz, on November 25th, 2007% A correspondent has recently asked whether Alexander Brand Inglis could possibly be the father of John Inglis, born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis, ploughman, in 1861. I found the following:
John Inglis was born to Ann Taylor and Alexander Inglis on 4th July 1860 in the Parish of Dalbog, Edzell. This would make Alexander Brand Inglis 20 to 21: around the right sort of age. Knowing that Alexander would not have been a ploughman, as he was apprenticed at the age of 13 to a draper in Edinburgh, I looked into other branches of the family nearby and . . . → Read More: A tale of two Inglis
By Roz, on March 16th, 2007% Since I last wrote a post (that would be 11th February…) my maternal grandfather has reviewed the work we have done so far and has been able to add quite a lot. Not all of it “factual” in the genealogical sense, but some background information, confirmation of second-guessed facts, that sort of thing.
We’ve been able to add some detail to the Moore branch of the family (my grandfather’s mother’s family); in particular following Elsie Lena Moore‘s brothers and sisters.
Lilian Moore, Elsie Lena’s eldest (surviving to adulthood) sister we now know married a George . . . → Read More: Update
By Roz, on January 8th, 2007% I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve had the cold to end all colds. So apologies for the long silence – business as usual from today.
I have at last found out where the “Douglas” comes from in Daisy Douglas Crosbie Henderson’s name. It is, as I suspected, a surname of one of her ancestors: her father (John Crosbie Aitken Henderson) was the son of John Aitken Henderson and Isabella Crosbie. Isabella Crosbie’s parents were John Crosbie and Jean DOUGLAS. I know very little about these two people, apart from the fact that they married each other on 20th . . . → Read More: New Year, Same Tree
By Roz, on December 3rd, 2006% For a while we’ve been trying to find out more about Jessie Ann Inglis. She married Alexander Brand Inglis, but hailed from a completely different branch of Inglises (phew!). Until a few days ago all we knew about her was that she was born in India, around 1849, and married Alexander in India in 1868.
Then we realised that www.ancestry.co.uk had made transcriptions of two more Scottish censuses available – 1851 and 1861. We had already looked on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but had had no luck in locating Jessie anywhere in Scotland. Trying again on www.ancestry.co.uk and using their new . . . → Read More: Jessie Ann Inglis
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