High Up Relations.....

Post by **Pandabean** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:12 pm

Just wondering, has anyone out there on this forum found that are descended from someone who was high up in society? Such as a Laird or Robert the Bruce lol

I am still searching but hopefully I may one day find some one.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:46 pm

Pandabean wrote:Just wondering, has anyone out there on this forum found that are descended from someone who was high up in society? Such as a Laird or Robert the Bruce lol

I am still searching but hopefully I may one day find some one.

In 15 years researching for folk, I've only ever had one close encounter with the aristocracy, an American who is the 6th cousin of the 7th Earl of Argyll (or is it 7th cousin of the 6th Earl

).

His g - several - grandfather was a general in the service of the Honourable East India Company, and well documented in the book on the CAMPBELLs in the service of the HEIC.

This same relation applied to the Court of the Lord Lyon in the early 1800s for a grant of arms, which application referred back to an earlier grant of arms to his great-grandfather, maybe gggrandfather, all linking neatly into the genealogy of the cadets of the CAMPBELL clan and the Earls of Argyll

David

PS I met earlier today a descendant of the brother of Clemintina WALKINSHAW who is reputed to have been the mistress of Bonnie Prince Charlie

dww

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:13 pm

Unfortunately my gt grandmother lived with a famous (at the time) Scottish violinist James Scott Skinner. She was for the sake of propriety called his secretary ! I dont care that he is "noted" as i have taken an instant dislike to the man from family tales!! But on the bright side he did leave her his house when he died so she didnt put up with him for nothing ! wise woman !
Through him my family had famous friends and i have a copies of a photo to them with a personal message from Gladys Cooper - Bete Davis mum in Now Voyager and one from Gladys daughter Sally who married a famous actor. My gt grandmother was also the subject of a painting by a famous Scottish artist David Waterson although i have yet to track this down. He also did a drawing of her which i have seen thanks to Pat at Aberdeen University who has an interest in Skinner and she was my first find when i started researching and without her i dont know if i ever would have got past the first step .
A few of mine worked for famous people. My gt grandfathers sister worked for Elizabeth Gaskell the author as a kitchen maid. I have lettters from that period c 1890,s where she gossips about certain Lords and Ladies that have visited. I have passed these on to The Gaskell Society in Manchester.
My gt gt grandfather wrote a book of poems that was published, another was a footballer for Elgin City, Rangers and another one (not being into football) and is noted in The Wee Red Book ..............the list goes on.........

Not exactly nobility but noted none the less

although Skinner did teach or play (?) at Balmoral ( or one of the other residences of Queen Victoria on her request) and i often wonder when watching Mrs Brown

Edit
I forgot (just remembered) that Elizabeth Gaskell had died by the time my gt grandfathers sister worked for the family but the letters mention a Lady Blake and her whit that she must have inherited from her father ?

- mind boggles

But have also remembered my gt grandfathers other sister worked for a family that owned Norris Castle (nasty purpose built Castle now a ruin, suprise ! ) on the Isle of Wight that Queen Victoria's parents used to hire for their "holidays" (?) at the time she worked there i think it was owned by Scottish born John Ewing. Capt in ???Army - living in posh Brunswick Square, Hove (Brighton in other words now)

Now you've got me going over old stuff ...............

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:18 pm

Tracey

Have you responded to the BBC Radio Scotland appeal from Rhona Brudenell ??, - see http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ght=#28428

David

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:25 pm

Hi David

No because i just thought i would be babling on like so many others of people only of interest to me.

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:29 pm

My only claim to fame is Prime Minister W E Gladstone. I'm not related to him but his auntie married into my lot!

Oh, also Barbara Goalen the 1940s/1950s model was married to a distant relative.

And I nearly forgot - Sir Hector Livingstone Duff (who? I can hear you saying...

no, I'd not heard of him either....) is my 2nd cousin, 5 times removed!!

best wishes
Lesley

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:37 pm

Tracey wrote:Hi David

No because i just thought i would be babling on like so many others of people only of interest to me.

Tracey

Please email Rhona !!

David

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:38 pm

LesleyB wrote:My only claim to fame is Prime Minister W E Gladstone. I'm not related to him but his auntie married into my lot!

Oh, also Barbara Goalen the 1940s/1950s model was married to a distant relative.

And I nearly forgot - Sir Hector Livingstone Duff (who? I can hear you saying... no, I'd not heard of him either....) is my 2nd cousin, 5 times removed!!

best wishes
Lesley

Hi Lesley

An email please to Rhona at BBC !!

David

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:42 pm

I forgot to mention the blue rose i have a sort of momento of a Douglas Fairbanks film premier of The Thief of Baghdad that has the Douglas Fairbanks museum in the U.S completely stumped ! and they know all there is to know.............

Post by **Tracey** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:55 pm

DavidWW wrote:
Tracey wrote:Hi David

No because i just thought i would be babling on like so many others of people only of interest to me.
Tracey

Please email Rhona !!

David

I HEAR YOU -CONSIDER IT DONE !!

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