Scotlands Genealogy

[...] with their mother Agnes Broun and his large family,made their way to Morham West Mains in East Lothian to take up position of farm manager.After four years,he was appointed Factor of Lennoxlove [...]

[...] are reports of candle wax and incense also being left.Perhaps witchcraft has not died out in East Lothian after all. The stone that marks the execution of the last witch in Scotland to be condemned to [...]

[...] the coal mining,brick and glass industry. Children on site of current museum The museum and East Lothian Local History Society are always keen to locate descendants of the original workers and record [...]

[...] This fine neoclassical building designed by William Playfair (1790-1857) is home to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Established on 1 July 1505 when the Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh [...]

[...] Formerly Consultant Physician to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, now College Historian, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: West Lothian: A Medical Legacy. [...]

Fairburn - http://www.familytreedna.com/public/fairbairn/default.aspx Fairgrieve- http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/fairbairn/results Fairweather- [...]

G Galbraith- http://www.clangalbraith.org/ Gall,Gaul- http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/gaul Gallie - http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/galli [...]

I Inglis           http://www.englishdna.com/ Ingram        http://www.familytreedna.com/public/IngramDNA/default.aspx Inkster    [...]

The Scottish DNA Project now has an active blog at http://scottishdna.blogspot.com/ The project is administered by the genealogy studies group at St [...]

G Galbraith- http://www.clangalbraith.org/ Gall,Gaul- http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/gaul Gallie - http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/galli [...]

I Inglis           http://www.englishdna.com/ Ingram        http://www.familytreedna.com/public/IngramDNA/default.aspx Inkster    [...]

The Scottish DNA Project now has an active blog at http://scottishdna.blogspot.com/ The project is administered by the genealogy studies group at St [...]

[...] Last year I visited this memorial beside the Moffat-Edinburgh road overlooking the Devil's Beef Tub to John Hunter. He came from the parish of Tweedsmuir in Peebleshire and while visiting a sick [...]

[...] cairn at the watershed between the Tweed and Annan rivers. Here half a mile beyond the Devil's Beef Tub on 1 February 1831,two officers of the Royal Mail coach between Dumfries and Edinburgh perished [...]

[...] (2011). Alistair had kindly agreed to accompany us on a walk from Corehead farm into the Devil's Beef Tub - a large corrie formed in the last Ice Age and reputedly the former haunt of the Reivers [...]

[...] Lords of Appleby and High Sheriffs of Westmorland.Their Scottish cousins held land in Carriden,West Lothian and Loch Leven,Fife. During the 14th century the Scottish Viponts witnessed several charters [...]

[...] of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: Churches of West Lothian. 11.30am - 12.30pm: Dr Fiona Watson, freelance historian, writer and broadcaster: Macbeth, a [...]

[...] 'old bridge' and the Norman family that came to Britain hailed from Vipont near Lisieux. The Scottish Viponts are descended from William de Ueupunt who was granted land in Westmorland by William the [...]

[...] throughout Scotland so on my travels I shall post further illustrations of the Scottish epitaphs and symbolism on Tombstone Tuesday. Brown.Hamish ( 2008 ) The Scottish Graveyard [...]

[...] was born in 1676. The early life of Selkirk or Selcraig is well documented in the kirk session records of Largo Parish. On 27 Aug 1695 he was charged with 'undecent carriage' in church [...]

[...] Lottery: police records,Poor Relief,postcards,diaries and town council minutes.Plus the kirk session records for the Border counties of Berwickshire,Selkirkshire,Roxburghshire and Peebleshire are [...]

[...] in 1980 to Hallmark Cards. Dundee City Library holds the collection of photographs of the Tay Bridge disaster and the library and photographic archive of the University of St Andrews has a vast [...]

[...] are plans to raise funds for similar memorials to commemorate those killed in the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879. Forth Rail Bridge from South Queensferry The list of names can be viewed at : [...]