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Second 5 of 10 #OnThisDay toots about #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney now written up as a blog
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George Bruce died 28 September 1878 in Iquique, Tarapaca, Peru (now Chile) "thrown into the water by the capsizing of a small boat". Master of the the barque Ringdove, Greenock at the time. Son of Benjamin Bruce & Ellen Corrigill, Little Ayre, North Walls, born around 1831. Married twice: Jemima Ross, 1864; Ann Malcomson, 1870; both North Walls. Family based in Liverpool. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy -
Top ten female first names in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney 1861 Census.
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Top ten male first names in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney 1861 Census. John, James and William far in the lead. Not surprised!!
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Top ten surnames in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney 1861 Census:
Robeson/Robson
Sutherland
Wilson
Ross
Smith
Manson
Thompson/Thomson
Swanson/Swanston
Johnston
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Grace Cantley was baptised on 24 September 1835, youngest child of Nathaniel Cantley and Margaret Moar.. Her father was a Chelsea Pensioner and gardener at #Melsetter (the big hoose), originally from #Kirkcudbrightshire.
Grace married John Wilson, Scews, North Walls, in 1856. They moved to the Crockness area where Grace died on 6 February 1880 shortly after the birth of her ninth child.
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“John George Heddle, Landed Proprietor... died 1869 September 23rd, 6h pm, in the Links near Melsetter Parish of Walls, #Orkney, M, aged 49 years... of a Gun Shot wound severing the Spine and passing into the abdomen caused by the accidental discharge of a fowling piece”. He was the owner of most of Walls, Hoy and land on the Orkney mainland.
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22 September 1814 William Johnston from Brims, Walls #Orkney married Ann Mackay, Dispoly, in Reay parish #Caithness. They lived in Brims and had at least 9 children. Ann died in 1870 aged 72; William a fisherman and farmer died in 1880 aged 93.
Wives from "across the [Pentland] Firth" were not uncommon in Walls. Dispoly (Deasphollag) was in Strath Halladale, Sutherland.
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First 5 of 10 #OnThisDay toots about #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney now written up as a blog
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlaceStudies10 #Scotland #AllAboutThatPlace
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#OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims 18 September 1879 William Groundwater and Ann Ward married in #Stromness, #Orkney, though both lived in Walls, William farmed Mucklehouse (aka Ore) and Ann lived at Summer Cleary. In 1880 they had girl #triplets who died soon after birth. They later had four sons who lived to adulthood. William died in 1920 aged 79 and Ann in 1924 aged 81, both in North Walls. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
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William Sangster married Isabella Sutherland on 14 Sept 1876 in Walls #Orkney. He was a 1st Mate; she was from Haybrake, North Walls. They had one son, George. Isabella died in 1885; William remarried, his family lived in Stromness, Orkney. He died in Glasgow in 1896. Probably born in Greenock William was related to master mariners on both sides notably the Bruces. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons https://janealogy.co.uk/north-walls-and-brims/merchant-seamen/