tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91941812167171321052024-03-14T10:44:12.651+00:00Borders Family History SocietyPeter Munrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07076063723948804705noreply@blogger.comBlogger516125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-31598941694006667292021-02-15T21:16:00.006+00:002021-02-15T21:21:14.842+00:00Database Functionality Suspension<p> Our host is making changes to database servers this evening and tomorrow morning.</p><p><br /></p>
<p> This may affect our <a href="BFHSQueryIndexSearch.asp" target="_blank" title="Family history queries">Queries</a>, <a href="BFHSInterestsIndexSearch.asp" target="_blank" title="Other people's Surname Interests">Surname Interests</a>, <a href="BFHSGravestoneIndexSearch.asp" target="_blank" title="Search surnames included in gravestone inscriptions (MIs)">Gravestones Index</a>, <a href="BFHSMagIndexSearch.asp" target="_blank" title="Search topics included in magazine articles">Magazine Article Index</a>, <a href="BFHSPoorLawsearchform.asp" target="_blank" title="Search for people included in Poor Law records">Poor Law Records Index</a> and <a href="BFHSFamilyTreeSearchForm.asp" target="_blank" title="Search surnames included in other people's family trees">Family Tree Index</a>.<br /></p>
<p>If, after noon tomorrow, you find a problem, please report it via our <a href="BFHSContacts.asp" target="_self">Contacts</a> page.</p>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-82318633391710617502018-01-04T21:06:00.001+00:002018-01-04T21:06:48.846+00:00Church of Ireland Gazette Archive 1856 - 1923The Protestant Church of Ireland’s newspaper, the Church of Ireland Gazette started life as a monthly magazine, named The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette, became a weekly in 1880 and changed its name to The Church of Ireland Gazette in 1900 and is still in publication. <br /><br />The Church of Ireland's record repository, the Representative Church Body Library has the only complete hard-copy run of this newspaper and has digitised all editions for the 70-year period between 1856 and the end of 1923 and it’s available in their archive.<br /><br />You don’t need to have Church of Ireland ancestors or even Irish ancestors to find the Gazette useful as the paper carried pieces about major national and international issues as well as appointments, retirements and general articles. <br /><br />Search the <a href="https://esearch.informa.ie/Exe/ZyNET.exe?ZyAction=ZyActionr&Client=7094_RCB%20Library%20Archive" target="_blank">archive</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-50731343615854072792017-08-11T10:06:00.004+01:002023-07-19T12:47:23.634+01:00A R Edwards - Photographic Archive<div class="separator" left="" text-align:="">
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A picture is worth a thousand words is an often used saying. There’s no doubting the attraction of pictures, particularly historical views of towns and landscapes for family history, so that we can see what our ancestors’ surroundings looked like in their own times.<br />
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We’ve received a book for review, the A R Edwards - Photographic Archive, published by Selkirk Regeneration Co.<br />
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Andrew Edwards was born on 30 December 1847 at Badminton, Gloucestershire, the son of Mathew Edwards and Agnes Campbell. He worked for Blackwoods, Edinburgh as a compositor before moving on to work as a photographer for the Wilson Photographic Co, Aberdeen. In 1879, he opened his own studio in Selkirk. He died in 1891. His son, Robert (1877-1965) eventually took over his father’s business.<br />
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The book is a collection of over 400, largely unpublished, mono landscape photographs of <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/selkirk.asp" target="_blank">Selkirk</a>, the Selkirk Common Ridings, the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/ettrick.asp" target="_blank">Ettrick</a> and <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/yarrow.asp" target="_blank">Yarrow</a> valleys, the Haining, Bowhill, St Mary’s Loch, Philiphaugh, various towns and villages around the Borders and as far east as Berwick, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/coldingham.asp" target="_blank">Coldingham</a> and <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/eyemouth.asp" target="_blank">Eyemouth</a>, some famous Borderers and of the Edwards family.<br />
There are short biographies of Andrew and Robert Edwards and colour photographs of some of the cameras used.<br />
The front cover of this 252 page paperback shows photos of Andrew and Robert Edwards and 3 cameras.<br />
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This £10 book is a treasure for everyone in the Borders, especially so, for those living in Selkirk or with a Selkirk connection. Every bed and breakfast and hotel in and around the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/counties.asp" target="_blank">Scottish Borders</a> and North Northumberland should get a copy for their guests, too.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-58403179064061569512017-07-20T17:17:00.000+01:002017-07-20T17:17:29.131+01:00Free access to UK military records at Ancestry 21st to 24th July<a href="http://ancestry.co.uk/">Ancestry UK</a> are offering free access to most UK military records from Friday 21st to Monday 24th July.<br />
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Their records include medal rolls index, navy casualties, navy lists, pension records, POWS, rolls of honour, service records, World War I UK army deaths, World War II medals issued to merchant seamen.<br />
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As usual, you'll need to register, if you haven't already done so.<br />
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The last meeting of our 2016-17 season is on Sunday 28th May at the Corn Exchange, Melrose, 2.30pm when the talk will be preceded by the
Society AGM.<br />
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Will Collin will present an illustrated talk
on "William Collin and the ‘Christina Craig’ - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Eyemouth Maritime Family Story from the
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2018 marks the 100<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the loss of the Christina Craig, one of many Eyemouth fishing
boats and crews which were signed up by the Admiralty to serve in the World War I
Auxiliary patrol. Many photographs remain in the Collin family and are included
in the talk.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-8146317993211655362017-04-22T20:40:00.000+01:002017-04-23T11:02:33.116+01:00Apr & May Society meetings<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Sunday 30<sup>th</sup> is a talk by David McLean on Farm Servants of South East
Scotland 1750 – 1914. So if your ancestors were Ag Labs, herds, hinds, bondagers, outworkers, ploughmen, David will explain a little more about their lives and conditions of work. Venue Corn Exchange, Melrose at 2.30pm. Teas / Coffees.</div>
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Great War".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2018 marks the 100<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the loss of the Christina Craig, one of many Eyemouth fishing
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-48132817967714030422017-03-25T12:54:00.001+00:002017-03-25T12:54:42.000+00:00Our Website Not Working ProperlyYes !<br />
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We know our website isn't working on all pages.<br />
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We're sorry about this. Our host, EasyCGI, assumed a previously reported problem was fixed without checking properly and without asking us to check.<br />
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The information pages and the subscription pages are working.<br />
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The pages that rely on a database like the Indexes, Forum, What's On, Surname Interests, Other Websites aren't working.<br />
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Tomorrow's talk about ScotlandsPlaces will be taking place.<br />
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See you at 2ish in the Corn Exchange, Melrose, for the talk.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-16976541975741968962017-01-12T19:36:00.000+00:002017-01-12T19:36:08.046+00:00Free Access to LostCousins This Weekend (14 to 16 January)Side-by-side with FindMyPast's <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2017/01/free-access-to-findmypasts-census-and.html" target="_blank">free access to census and birth, marriage and death records</a>, <a href="http://lostcousins.com/" target="_blank">LostCousins</a> is offering free access this weekend, though it seems their weekend ends on Monday !Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-39995634582094639112017-01-12T19:26:00.000+00:002017-01-12T19:26:51.043+00:00Free Access to FindMyPast's Census and Birth, Marriage and Death RecordsBrrr, it's cold out there. <br /><br />Until the end of this Sunday, there's free access to FindMyPast's census and birth, marriage and death records, though I've found I can also see pre-1837 English parish records.<br /><br />Also, it's not just UK records but also records from Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and USA.<br /><br />Start your free <a href="http://www.findmypast.co.uk/start-your-journey" target="_blank">family history</a> journey. <br /><br />If you miss this free offer, come to our <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BFHSArchive.asp" target="_blank">archive and search room</a> at 52 Overhaugh St, Galashiels, TD1 1DP, Scotland.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-16141658804803587112017-01-06T19:38:00.001+00:002017-01-06T19:38:31.455+00:00Welcome to 2017 – the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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At Borders FHS, we are
looking forward to 2017 - to help with your family history, to build up your family
tree and add to the Births, Marriages, Deaths & Census information you
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The Monumental
Inscriptions team are busy photographing and recording throughout the
Borders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Final checks of the
transcriptions are being done at Chirnside while several other burial places
have been photographed and transcribed and the MI’s available for use in our
Research Room will be increasing throughout the year.</div>
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Indexing of both the Poor Law and the
Police & Criminal records continue using the digitised images of the records held by the Scottish Borders Archive. </div>
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We have over 15,000
individual arrest records already and have completed the indexing of the recruitment
records for Policemen in the Borders Counties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our home-based volunteers are working away on Roxburghshire, Hawick and
Berwickshire arrest records and these are providing fascinating insights into
local and social history such as the building of the Borders railway in the
1860’s, the movement of seasonal workers from Ireland and the regiments
stationed at Stobs Camp before WWI.</div>
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Research for the Stobs
Project, looking at the camp during the years of WWI, is both interesting and
challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Stobs research team are
researching both the POW’s and the soldiers stationed there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Find more news about the project at http://www.stobscamp.org/</div>
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and will be open on Tuesdays and Thursdays until the end of February.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In March, we will be open on Fridays
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fascinating talks lined up – all of the talks are in the Corn Exchange in Melrose
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feb 26 – From Abbey St Bathans to Otago – the story of a forgotten
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mar 26 - Transcribing ScotlandsPlaces</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apr 30 - Farm Servants of South-East Scotland, 1750-1914</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">May 28 - The Deid’s Letterwills and Legacies - Lifting the Veil on Past
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Look out for news about
the 2017 Borders Heritage Festival (They’re on facebook and Twitter @BHeritageFest
and are planning their own website as well).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Over the last few years, the festival has spread over the whole of the
Borders and this year will have much more to see and do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
you can follow us on facebook and twitter too.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-24021830881289245402016-12-24T17:56:00.000+00:002016-12-24T17:56:06.734+00:00Free Access to (mainly United States) World War II RecordsFold3, which specialises in United States military records is offering free access to their 113 million World War II records until the end of the year. <br /><br />If you have family that served in or with United States forces, skip the charades on Christmas Day or the dip in the Tweed on Boxing Day, and search the collection.<br /><br />Included in the collection are: Allied military conferences, draft registration cards, Holocaust collection, missing air crew reports, Pearl Harbor muster rolls, submarine patrol reports, war diaries from 1942 to 1945.<br />
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You'll need to register (free) if you want to download images.<br /><br />Search the <a href="https://go.fold3.com/wwii/" target="_blank">Fold 3 World War II records</a>. <br /><br />
I've found someone who is probably a relative, so I'm quite excited !<br />
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Did you find something interesting ?<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-67190941268086504182016-11-27T13:26:00.000+00:002016-11-27T13:26:02.792+00:00New Publication - Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and IrelandOxford University Press have published the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, the culmination of a recent research project (<a href="http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/cahe/research/bristolcentreforlinguistics/fanuk.aspx" target="_blank">Family Names of the United Kingdom</a>) into 45,600 surnames in Britain and Ireland.<br /><br />The team researched records from sources dating from the 11th to the 19th century to identify new and sometimes detailed explanations for surnames, even those held by as few as 100 people.<br /><br />The 4 volume set is published at £400 but some public libraries may get it as part of their online Oxford University Press Reference subscription.<br /><br />Until the end of November, you can use it online for free, using <br /><br />Username: <b>fanbi</b><br /><br />Password: <b>onlineaccess</b><br /><br />Search the <a href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764" target="_blank">Oxford Dictionary of Family Names.</a> <br /><br /><br />The Arts and Humanities Research Council have awarded the team a grant to continue the project so that another 15,000 surnames with as few as 20 current bearers can be researched.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-89854632385151144252016-10-19T10:53:00.000+01:002016-10-19T10:53:02.793+01:00Hidden Treasures and Inspiration - a Talk on Friday, 21st October <br />
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Last summer, the Berwick 900 Our Families family history research project set up a small <a href="http://berwick900.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Creative%20Writing%20Group" target="_blank">creative writing group</a> to write fictional family stories about incidents and historical characters in Berwick’s, Tweedmouth’s and Spittal’s history, using research produced by the volunteers. There's lots of scope for imagining what led up to incidents, what impact it had on people, what happened afterwards and creating a family story. One story, a poem written by Sandra Whitnell, is about a <a href="http://berwick900.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Sandra%20Whitnell" target="_blank">woman murdered at Middle Ord, Northumberland</a>, in December 1876. <br /><br />This year, Linda Bankier, the Berwick Archivist will give a talk at <a href="http://www.berwickliteraryfestival.com/" target="_blank">Berwick Literary Festival</a> about the variety of records available in <a href="http://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/record-office/" target="_blank">Berwick Record Office</a>, and the audience will hear excerpts from three stories based on research into the Berwick Town Council account books, a newspaper cutting from November 1863 about a crinoline that caused an accident and a poster. <br /><br /><b>The talk is on Friday, 21st October at 12 noon at the Holy Trinity Parish Centre, Berwick; cost £5. </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-67649932762249039222016-09-02T13:15:00.001+01:002016-09-02T13:15:21.615+01:00Time-Travel in Peebles, Tomorrow (3 September) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Saturday, <a href="http://www.u3atweeddale.org/" target="_blank">Tweeddale University of the Third Age</a> are organising a history event ‘Travel in Time in Tweeddale’ which will be held at the Leckie Memorial Bakehouse (behind the Leckie Memorial Church - see map at foot of page), Eastgate, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Peebles.asp" target="_blank">Peebles</a> from 10.30 am to 4 pm.<br />
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Their day starts off with a walk round Peebles with Gerard Bakker, looking at some of the interesting houses built as a result of the coming of the railway. At the event there will be displays on travel themes, three talks about the railway, drovers and the impact of transport changes in Victorian Peebles, two film shows, and a walk along the drove road out of Peebles. They’ll have a colouring corner for children, too. <br />
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The event is free and I’m looking forward eagerly to the day.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Index.asp" target="_blank">Borders Family History Society</a> will be there with a range of mainly <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/p_shire.asp" target="_blank">Peeblesshire</a> publications including <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2014/11/innerleithen-shops.html" target="_blank">Innerleithen Shops</a>, <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2010/07/new-monumental-inscriptions-volume-for.html" target="_blank">Innerleithen Monumental (Gravestone) Inscriptions</a>, <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2015/07/Snippets.html" target="_blank">Snippets & Photos About Old Innerleithen</a>. Come and meet Davina, John and Peter and ask us for help with your family history.<br />
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Programme:<br />
9.30am-11am <b>Walk</b>: A stroll round Peebles with Gerard Bakker, looking at some of the interesting houses built as a result of the coming of the railway <br />
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10.30am <b>Exhibition</b> opens with displays and objects on the theme of: <br />
<ul>
<li>Horse and carriage</li>
<li>Highways and byways</li>
<li>Impact of the Railway</li>
<li>Borders Family History Society</li>
<li>Children’s colouring corner and “memory lane” </li>
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11am – noon <b>Talk</b> Ron Glendinning shares his memories – and great photographs of being bought up on Peebles railway, in conversation with Ronald Ireland.<br />
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Noon – 1pm <b>Walk</b> Discover with Stuart Akers where visitors to Peebles by rail and road recovered from their journeys.<br />
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Noon – 1pm <b>Films</b> A series of short films about transport in Tweeddale, by Brian Whitnell, featuring local people, and exploring working horses and the people who look after them - then and now. <br />
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1.15pm – 2pm <b>Talk</b> Mud, mayhem and merriment: Three Victorian Peebles’ residents talk about the changes brought about by the momentous developments in transport in 1864– not all of them desirable!<br />
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2.15pm – 3.15pm <b>Talk</b> Who were Scotland’s own “cowboys”? Drovers passed through Peebles on the long journey south across the hills. Was it the ‘wild west’ out there? Where can you find their paths? Ronnie Watt tells their amazing story.<br />
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3.15pm – 5pm <b>Walk</b> Take to the hills with Francis Mordaunt and Ronnie Watt - in the footsteps of the Drovers.<br />
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3.15pm – 4pm <b>Films</b> A series of short films about transport in Tweeddale, by Brian Whitnell,
featuring local people, and exploring working horses and the people who
look after them - then and now. <br />
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4pm Exhibition closes<br />
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<b>Outside the hall</b> <br />
<ul>
<li>See horseshoes made and Ross Philips, a farrier, at work</li>
<li>Get up close to a Vintage Tractor</li>
<li>Go back in time with the Tweeddale Travel Timeline </li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-66570633733613678952016-05-30T23:34:00.002+01:002016-05-30T23:34:14.028+01:00New Borders Family History Society Publications Sales List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There's a new version of our <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BordersFHS-SalesList.pdf" target="_blank">Sales List</a> online.<br />It includes the new <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2016/03/new-monumental-inscriptions-volume-for.html" target="_blank">Bunkle & Preston Monumental Inscriptions</a> CD and T<a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2016/01/jaffray.html" target="_blank">o Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick</a>.<br /><br />Please note that most of the Census Transcriptions are on special offer and in many cases, we have only one copy of each for sale. <br />Order <u><b>now</b></u> if you want them at the special offer price.<br /><br />You can download our <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BordersFHS-SalesList.pdf" target="_blank">Sales List</a> here.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-54614574469528922612016-05-28T17:31:00.001+01:002016-05-28T17:33:09.896+01:00Free Access to UK Medal Rolls, Service Awards, Casualties and Navy List Until 31 MayForces War Records are offering free access to some of their records until 31 May.<br />
The record sets are:<br />
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<a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/136/admiralty-registers-of-killed-and-wounded-1914-1929" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Admiralty - Registers of Killed and Wounded 1914-1929</b></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/92/gazetted-awards-and-mentions-in-despatches/" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gazetted Awards and Mentions in Despatches</b></a><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/34/royal-marines-campaign-medal-rolls-1914-1920/" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Royal Marines Campaign Medal Rolls 1914-1920</span></b></a> </b><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/35/royal-naval-officers-campaign-medal-rolls-1914-1920/" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Royal Naval Officers' Campaign Medal Rolls 1914-1920</b></a> </b><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/11/the-naval-general-service-medal-roll/" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Naval General Service Medal Roll</b></a> </b><br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/121/uk-navy-list-1919/" style="color: #4e6f30; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UK Navy List 1919</b></a> </b><br />
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Thanks to <a href="http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/forces-war-records-opens-some-records.html" target="_blank">Anglo-Celtic Connections Blog</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-38163490021411715562016-05-21T14:25:00.000+01:002016-05-21T14:30:34.455+01:00Find Out about the pre-1855 Parish Registers of the Roman Catholic Church<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Donna Maguire, archivist and records manager to the Bishops Conference of Scotland, is giving a talk on ‘The pre-1855 Parish Registers of the Roman Catholic Church'.<br />
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The talk takes place at the Corn Exchange and Ormiston Institute, Market Square, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/melrose.asp" target="_blank">Melrose</a>, TD6 9PN at 2.30pm on Sunday, 29th May. <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=TD6+9PN" target="_blank">Map</a>.<br />
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The talk will be preceded by our Annual General Meeting but that's usually over quickly.<br />
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I’m eagerly looking forward to this talk.<br />
Donna is going to tell us about the Catholic registers for parishes that were founded before 1855, the six Scottish dioceses and the records of the Bishops Conference of Scotland and its agencies.<br />
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You may attend the talk and the AGM whether you are a member or not.<br />
Doors open at 2pm; the AGM begins at 2.30pm.<br />
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Knowing how to find Catholic records is vital in family history, even if you think you have no Catholics in your family, you may be wrong, as I was, especially if you can’t find the birth of one or more your ancestors.<br />
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I suggest you come early to get a good seat. We'll have a range of family history publications available to buy, and there’ll be light refreshments (donation expected) available after the talk.<br />
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If you have a problem with your family history, please discuss it (no charge) with one of our volunteers.<br />
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The talk was previously advertised for last October but did not take place then due to illness.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-91110589549367712202016-05-12T23:24:00.001+01:002016-05-12T23:24:40.534+01:00Was there a Red Cross Volunteer in Your Family ?The <a href="http://www.redcross.org.uk/" target="_blank">Red Cross</a> have now made their World War I collection of records partly available with an index of World War I volunteers. <br /><br />At the outbreak of war in 1914, the Red Cross formed a Joint War Committee with the Order of St John, raised funds, organised volunteers and paid staff to provide equipment and services in the UK and the theatres of war. Everyone was trained in first aid, some trained in nursing, cookery, hygiene and sanitation. <br /><br />Most of the women became nurses, initially in hospitals in Britain, but as the casualties mounted, more were sent overseas to casualty stations on or near the battlefield or to hospitals. Many people offered their houses as convalescent homes for the wounded or as auxiliary hospitals; some town halls and primary schools were used too. <br /><br />There were over 3,000 auxiliary hospitals across the UK. They were staffed by a commandant, a quartermaster, a matron, a cook and nurses. Local GPs often volunteered for work in the hospitals in addition to their ordinary work. The nurses were all volunteers, often they were too young or old or had family commitments to serve full-time. Male volunteers usually drove or accompanied the ill or wounded to and from hospitals, many acted as stretcher-bearers, a lot were sent to France as ambulance drivers, some being wounded in enemy action. <br /><br />Volunteers also collected clothing and books for soldiers in hospitals, raised funds, made bandages and splints, acted as cooks, store-keepers, worked in the offices and just as importantly, provided food and cigarettes to soldiers arriving by ambulance train. One of my great-aunts married a soldier she met on such duty. <br /><br />A lot of people were displaced by the war, in 1915, volunteers started visiting hospitals looking for people who had been recorded as missing; work that the Red Cross is still involved in. By the end of the war in 1918, 90,000 volunteers had worked in the UK or abroad. There were lots of famous volunteers including Agatha Christie and Vera Brittain, perhaps some of your family were volunteers.<br />
<br />To find out, use the <a href="http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Volunteers-during-WW1" target="_blank">index of World War I Red Cross volunteers</a>.. <br /><br />You can search by forename, surname, location or hospital or role. The initial search takes you to a search results page that shows name, county, date of engagement, age when engaged. Clicking on the name takes you to a detailed page about that person.<br />
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The information provided comes from record cards and may include name, address, age, character, service dates, hospital, rank, pay, duties, commission, honours awarded. Pictures of the cards are also included. Annoyingly, first names weren’t always recorded, some just gave initials.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-3487773263250972462016-04-23T15:03:00.000+01:002016-04-23T15:03:03.095+01:00Ancestry Celebrates Shakespeare with Free Access to Parish and Probate RecordsAncestry.co.uk are offering <a href="http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/group/free_ukparishprobate" target="_blank">free access to their parish and probate records</a> today (Saturday 23 April) to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. <br /><br />The collection includes 39,000 records from <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/r_shire.asp" target="_blank">Roxburghshire</a>, Scotland and 6,500 records from <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/s_shire.asp" target="_blank">Selkirkshire</a> from the early 1500s to the mid- to late-1800s, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories) for Scotland, 1876-1936.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-79262637453138527332016-03-29T21:51:00.000+01:002016-03-29T22:03:30.112+01:00New Publications Sales List and Postage Rates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new rates are in an updated version of our publications <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BordersFHS-SalesList.pdf">sales list</a>, which also lists our more recent publications:<br />
<a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2016/03/new-monumental-inscriptions-volume-for.html" target="_blank">Bunkle & Preston Monumental Inscriptions</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2015/06/new-monumental-inscriptions-volume-for.html" target="_blank">Lyne, Megget & Manor Monumental Inscriptions</a> <br />
<a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2016/01/jaffray.html" target="_blank">To Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick</a> <br />
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As an added bonus, our sales list includes parish maps for the 4 historic <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/counties.asp">Scottish Borders counties</a> (<a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/b_shire.asp">Berwickshire</a>, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/p_shire.asp" target="_blank">Peeblesshire</a>, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/r_shire.asp" target="_blank">Roxburghshire</a> and <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/s_shire.asp" target="_blank">Selkirkshire</a>). Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-3612708215426835542016-03-27T20:42:00.003+01:002023-10-13T13:47:05.787+01:00New Monumental Inscriptions volume for Bunkle & Preston, Berwickshire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We’re pleased to report that we have just published another new <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BFHSMIAllVolumes.asp" target="_blank">Monumental Inscriptions</a> volume on CD, for the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/b_shire.asp" target="_blank">Berwickshire</a> parish of <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/bunkle.asp" target="_blank">Bunkle & Preston</a>, nestling in the foothills of the Lammermuirs but situated only a few miles from the county town of <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/duns.asp" target="_blank">Duns</a>.<br />
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In addition to the monumental inscriptions (gravestone inscriptions) at Bunkle churchyard, Preston old churchyard and new cemetery, the Hearth Tax of 1694 and the Militia Lists of 1798 and 1801, we have included other documents which shed light on the people of the parish and their lives:<br />
The Fugitive and Porteous Rolls of 1684 list Cowan, Darling, Turnbull and other local family surnames.<br />
Militia Families Vouchers for 1812, held by <a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/" target="_blank">National Records of Scotland</a>, list the payments made to the wives of the men serving in the Militia and include the names of children. <br />
The Blackadders Cash Book for East Blanerne, 1821-1837, is an exciting find which <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/Index.asp" target="_blank">Borders Family History Society</a> will be researching further. We have included information on the 41 people employed as herds, hinds, blacksmiths, bondagers and house boys. <br />
Another find, courtesy of a researcher in Canada, is a poem by a former pupil of Millburn school. John Aitken remembers those who attended the school in 1823 and includes places of residence and family occupations.<br />
The Ministers of Bonkyl (the old name for Bunkle) & Preston are listed together with full transcriptions of the War Memorials in Bonkyl Church, in Preston and the Roll of Honour in Preston Recreation Hall.<br />
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We are indebted to the work of James Hardy, D C Cargill, James Robson and James Hewat Craw without whose earlier recordings, so many inscriptions and descriptions of stones, would have been lost.<br />
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The pre-1855 stones were recorded in 1969 by David C. Cargill but many have since been weathered and the inscriptions worn and some have completely disappeared. In the relatively short period since we started visiting the churchyard to record the stones, several have fallen over. <br />
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There are over 330 surnames and their variations listed in the Monumental Inscriptions: Adamson, Ainslie, Aitchison, Aitken, Allan, Allison, Anderson, Armstrong, Aubrey, Baillie, Ballantyne, Barclay, Barlow, Barrie, Bartram, Battye, Bell, Bennet, Bernsfather, Bertram, Black, Blackadder, Blackie, Blaikie, Blair, Blyth, Bogue, Bookless, Bower, Boyd, Braidwood, Brodie, Broomfield, Brown, Brownlie, Bruce, Burns, Cairns, Calder, Campbell, Carlisle, Carr, Carss, Carter, Cassels, Cassie, Chirnside, Chisholm, Christie, Clark, Cleghorn, Clinskill, Cockburn, Colville, Cowe, Cowen, Cowie, Craig, Cranston, Crawford, Crow, Curay, Currie, Cuthbert, Dalgleish, Darling, Darrie, Davidson, Davies, Deans, Denham, Denholm, Dick, Dickson. Dippie, Dixon, Dodds, Dougal, Douglas, Dudgeon, Duncan, Dunlop, Eddie, Edmond, Edwards, Elliot, Fair, Fairbairn, Fergusson, Ferme, Ferrier, Fiddes, Fish, Fisher, Fletcher, Forbes, Ford, Forrest, Forsyth, Fortune, Foulds, France, Freature, Fulton, Galbraith, Galloway, Gibson, Gillas, Gillieson, Glendinning, Goldsmith, Goodall, Gordon, Graham, Grant, Gray, Grieve, Haggarty, Haig, Hall, Halliday, Hamilton, Hardie, Harris, Hastie, Hay, Henderson, Henry, Herriot, Hewot, Hill, Hislop, Hogarth, Hogg, Hoggart, Home, Hood, Horsburgh, Housley, Howie, Hoy, Inglis, Jacks, Jackson, James, Jeffery, Johnson, Johnston, Jordan, Keenan, Kemp, Kennedy, Kerr, King, Kirk, Laidlaw, Lamb, Landles, Lauder, Law, Lawrie, Lawson, Layel, Leitch, Liddle, Lindsay, Logan, Lorain, Lugget, Luke, Lumsdaine, Lunham, Lunn, Mabon, Mack, Mackenzie, Macleod, Mair, Maitland, Mann, Marshall, Martin, Mason, McArthur, McGill, McKay, McMurchie, Mercer, Middlemass, Middlemiss, Mileson, Miller, Minchin, Mitchell, Moffat, Moir, Molesworth, Moor, Moran, Mossman, Murray, Nairn, Nisbet, Norrie, Norris, Oliver, O'Toole, Pate, Paterson, Patterson, Paxton, Peacock, Person, Playfair, Plenderleith, Pounton, Preston, Pringle, Proudfoot, Purves, Rae, Ramsay, Rankin, Redden, Redpath, Reeder, Reid, Renton, Renwick, Roberts, Robertson, Robson, Rose, Runciman, Rutherford, Scheibe, Scot, Scott, Scougal, Service, Shaw, Shearlaw, Sheriff, Shiel, Simpson, Skene, Slight, Smail, Smith, Spence, Spratt, Steel, Stenhouse, Stevenson, Stewart, Stobie, Straiton, Stuart, Swan, Swanston, Tait, Tapp, Taylor, Telford, Tennant, Thompson, Thomson, Todd, Torbet, Trotter, Tunnah, Turnbull, Utterson, Vallance, Veitch, Waddell, Wait, Waldron, Walker, Walls, Watson, Weatherhead, Weatherly, Weekes, Weir, Wells, White, Whitecross, Whitehead, Whitelaw, Whitson, Wightman, Wilkinson, Wilson, Winter, Wood, Wright, Wylie, Young, Younger, Yule, Zimmermann.<br />
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There are layout plans of Bunkle and Preston churchyards and of the new Preston cemetery. The Monumental Inscriptions and Memorials are indexed by Surname, First Name and Date of Death. Surnames on the Hearth Tax, the Militia Lists are indexed and there is a place name index.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-44826734659030771152016-03-17T13:03:00.001+00:002016-03-17T13:03:32.951+00:00Free DNA Tests for Men Named RiddellA lady in New Zealand named Gail Riddell and an apparently unrelated Jim Riddell in America are joint administrators for the <a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Riddle/" target="_blank">Riddell/Riddle/Ridley/Ruddell DNA project </a>with an American based firm called <a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/" target="_blank">FamilyTree DNA</a>. . <br />
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Gail's family were mostly from the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/r_shire.asp" target="_blank">Roxburghshire</a> area but were also in <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/b_shire.asp" target="_blank">Berwickshire</a>
and Lanarkshire (not to mention all through the Lothian area),
depending on the lands they purchased/versus where their money was
"made". Jim's forebears were from Lanarkshire in the late 16th Century and are thought to have left at the time of the Covenanters.<br />
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Gail
wrote "I have many men from New Zealand, Australia, USA, one from South
Africa and a few from UK who have been excited by what they have
learned as a result of testing their Y-Chromosome. They have worked
hard in order to raise sufficient funds for me to be able to offer
totally free, a number of Y-37 tests for any man living in <a href="http://www.ndfhs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Northumberland</a>, the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/counties.asp" target="_blank">Scottish Borders</a>, Yorkshire or lowland <a href="http://www.safhs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Scotland</a> who has this surname and who has a family tree of his paternal ancestry back to around 1800 or earlier.<br />
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The
bottom line is to extend and "prove" our genealogy in a way that paper
trails have been unable. By that, I mean if we go back into history,
especially the 1600s (as an example) and look at the deaths, followed by
pestilence, followed by famines and we soon begin to realise that not
everyone who bears a particular surname is actually of that stock. I
say this because many young women with wee ones to feed were made widows
and frequently joined up with a "protector" who thus gave his name to
those<br />
wee ones.<br />
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For those who are anxious about
DNA testing - the medical genes are not considered in the test that I am
offering as a "freebie". The test itself needs just two separate cheek
swabs. "<br />
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If you're a Riddle (whatever the spelling),
and you've got a family tree on the paternal side back to 1800, and you
would be willing to take the test, please contact Gail at the email
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-33270410439839951412016-03-02T09:53:00.002+00:002016-03-02T09:53:38.638+00:00Free Access to FindMyPast's Irish Records till 7 MarchPerhaps it's the thought of St Patrick's Day or perhaps more of us have ancestors that came from Ireland than we thought.<br /><br />Anyway, FindMyPast claims to have the largest collection of Irish Records and they're offering free access until 7 March.<br /><br />Start your <a href="http://www.findmypast.co.uk/free-irish-records" target="_blank">search of Irish Records</a>.<br /><br />If you need help with an English or Scottish family history problem, there are still some free family history surgeries available (you need to book in advance) on <a href="http://berwick900.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/berwick-family-history-day-2016.html" target="_blank">Berwick Family History Day</a> on 16 April, or come to the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Borders Family History Society</a> stall on the day and we'll try to help.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-22837644330186178082016-02-22T20:33:00.000+00:002016-02-22T20:33:06.048+00:00A History of Scottish Borders Mills Especially in Hawick<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Were you or your family employed in the mills ? <br /><br />Our next talk is this Sunday, 28th February when Gordon MacDonald is coming to speak to us. The title of his talk is ‘From Tweeds to Twin-Setts'. The talk takes place at the Corn Exchange and Ormiston Institute, Market Square, <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/melrose.asp" target="_blank">Melrose</a>, TD6 9PN. <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=TD6+9PN&hl=en&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=15.089889,38.935547&hnear=Melrose+TD6+9PN,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=16" target="_blank">Map</a>.<br />
<br />Gordon’s talk will be about the history of the mills in <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/hawick.asp" target="_blank">Hawick</a> and the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/counties.asp" target="_blank">Scottish Borders</a>. <br /><br />I warmly invite you to attend the talk whether you are a member or not. Doors open at 2pm; the talk begins at 2.30pm. <br /><br />I find the history of the mills especially fascinating because although no members of my family worked in the Borders mills, some of them migrated from Dumfriesshire to north-west England to get better-paid work in the mills, there. I suggest you come early to get a good seat. <br /><br />You’ll be able to see our newer publications; the 2 volume history of the Aitchison family by Pam Ray <br />and <a href="http://blog.bordersfhs.org.uk/2016/01/jaffray.html" target="_blank">To Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick by Bob Jaffray</a> about shepherds in the Lammermuirs. <br /><br />We'll have a range of family history publications available to buy, and there’ll be light refreshments (donation expected) available after the talk. <br /><br />If you have a problem with your family history, please discuss it (no charge) with one of our volunteers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-20245448971557071072016-01-21T21:22:00.003+00:002023-10-13T13:51:25.318+01:00New Book: 'To Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick', by Bob Jaffray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've published a new book, 'To Follow the Dogs and Carry the Stick', written by one of our members, Bob Jaffray.<br />
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The book's subtitle is 'Glimpses of the Herding Life over Thirty Years in Lammermuir 1935-1965', and as a retired shepherd with a family connection to herding in the Lammermuirs going back to shortly after World War I, Bob recalls his memories of living in remote cottages high up in the hills and his subsequent life as a shepherd.<br />
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As he writes, ‘by the 1980s, a new mode of herding came into being with economic considerations dictating much larger farms and higher flock numbers ....’. Thus a whole way of life changed and herding techniques and skills which had evolved over hundreds of years are in danger of being forgotten. Bob's aim in the book is to preserve them for posterity.<br />
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Times were certainly difficult by today’s standards, all provisions and essentials being left at a neighbouring farm as the track to the cottage was effectively impassable, certainly in the wet. Remote as it was not though forgotten by the church, it being written into the minister's’ contract that he should hold an open air sermon on the top of an adjoining hill; Windy Law ‘to bring the gospel to the heathens of Rawburn’.<br />
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Bob recalls his life at <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/longformacus.asp" target="_blank">Longformacus</a> Village School with memories of fellow pupils and teachers. Most interestingly, he has included a full list of all who attended the school between the years 1937 and 1945. The figures themselves reflect the period, the number of new admissions (normally 6 or 7 per year), triplicating in the years 1939 and 1940 because of evacuees from the cities.<br />
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There are recollections of the effects of World War II on such a rural community and how the effect of rationing was not as severe as elsewhere. In 1943, Polish troops were billeted at Longformacus House and the youngsters of the day seem to have mingled freely with the troops, been given access to the vehicles and shown their weapons.<br />
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After the War, working as shepherd with particular recollections of the harsh winter and the hardships caused. There is a detail of day to day life with all sorts of anecdotes and personal recollections thrown in as well as recalling the practices and methods employed in shepherding, now mostly overtaken.<br />
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Also included are Jaffray and Welsh (the author’s mother’s name) family trees and well as different maps of the Lammermuirs with copies of charts produced by the Blackface Sheep Breeders Association containing the names of different farms and occupiers, a glossary and more than 40 photographs.<br />
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An enthralling read, even for people like me, whose knowledge of sheep is barely more than the taste on my dinner plate - certainly a must for anyone connected with farming, shepherding or the <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/counties.asp" target="_blank">Scottish Borders</a>.<br />
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The book is 94 pages long on heavy paper within card covers and costs £7.50 plus postage. It can be bought at our <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/BFHSArchive.asp" target="_blank">premises</a> in <a href="http://www.bordersfhs.org.uk/galashiels.asp" target="_blank">Galashiels</a> or by choosing the appropriate delivery option and pressing the button below.<br />
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