I’ve had a lot of success in the last couple of weeks at tracing the families of Sarah Jane Hunter’s siblings families. They replicate the trend seen with the Brown family of people leaving the Bessbrook area and moving to Belfast. In some cases this involved moving to America.

Upcoming- I’ve been working my way through an investigation by Crieff Kirk into an incident at Peter Douglas’s house at Hill’s Wynd in Crieff. More tomorrow.

A little snippet added about Peter Douglas, the brother of Charles Douglas the blacksmith.

I have added a little more about Jane Ann Clark’s daughter’s family over the last few days.

I have added a good bit of information about some Hannas from the Ards Peninsula in the last few days. If anyone can further I am always grateful to receive information and I give credit to those who do so.

I’m off for the summer and have been trying to delve a little more into the Hannas of Ards Peninsula so you can expect to see some additions there.

Perusing Find My Past’s newspaper archives I came across a form of obituary for Janet Alexander Douglas, daughter of William Douglas and his wife Catherine Nicholson. Interestingly, it was published in the John O’Groats Journal on 19th February 1909 and gives a warm and reasonably detailed account of the life of this young woman. Further…

I came across this snippet on Find My Past today, from the People newspaper of Sunday 14th March 1937. It is an appeal for information on John, presumably from some relative of his sister Maria as she had married a man named Daniel. Maria herself lived until 1977 and his mother lived on for some…

I gather that nearly all the links to pictures, trees and drawings etc are broken. I will do my best to restore them but it looks like each one needs put back individually so it is going to take quite some time. If you see a label which is wrong please let me know- often…

I have been exploring Dad’s DNA connections to people seemingly related through the Baxter family, many of whom disappeared from the records in Scotland. This has involved a little, if expensive, look at ScotlandsPeople but much more exploration via Ancestry. Unfortunately it has proven very difficult to locate birth records for many putative descendants. The…