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Post by **SarahND** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:46 pm

speleobat2 wrote: I would never have known about William if Sarah hadn't noticed the name Clerihew when she was looking for her own family!

And I would never have noticed William if you hadn't been posting about Clerihews! Which shows that TS is working!, hoorah!!!

[talkingscot]

Sarah

PaulaD · Post by **PaulaD** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:57 pm

HELP

I can't get Maggies link to work. Pc keeps telling IE cannot display webpage. Am I doing something wrong?
I want to search Aberdeen Journals for Gibb, Milne, Barclay, Fraser or even Clerihews cos they're easier to find

Paula

Post by **Anne H** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:49 pm

Hi Paula,

Not sure why Maggie's link doesn't work for you...try this one I just found on another forum...both work for me!
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazett ... zed156.htm
Good luck

Regards,
Anne H

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:17 am

Maggie's link through the Pennsylvania Consortium just invited me to sign in with my number or barcode.

However, the new link Anne just posted works just fine!

Carol

Post by **Anne H** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:42 am

Carol...maybe you overused the other link with your Clerihews

Regards,
Anne H

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:19 am

Must have been a glitch. I just tried Maggie's link and got on no problem. So now there are two links that work!

If I had broadband instead of dial-up, I might worry about exceeding the limit. As it is, I'm going to run out of time first!

Carol

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:56 am

I just read about the 1817 case of "James Taylor, John Gordon and George Pirie, apprentices to Mr John Gordon, surgeon in Keith, accused of violating the sepulchre of the dead, by taking up the body of John Bremner, recently interred in the church-yard of Keith"
They all pleaded guilty and the jury "recommended them to the clemency of the Court."

Anybody recognize the names?

Sarah

Post by **Anne H** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:05 am

oh dear

I've got a Perry who sometimes think they're Pirie or Pirriy or Peirry 8-[
that I still have to look at...I hope I don't run into George in my travels

Regards,
Anne H

Post by **SarahND** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:54 am

speleobat2 wrote: Haven't been able to plug William Clerihew into my charts anywhere! Wish those Clerihews would start behaving!

Although he is a "late grain merchant" at his death in 1846, I think he can only be the one who appears in 1841 in Old Machar as a Bookseller.
By 1851 he has disappeared, as has his wife, May Willox. The oldest child Peter is a farm servant now in Old Deer, and the rest of the children (Isabel, Adam and Christian) are living with their Willox grandparents in Strichen. Does this family ring a bell? Or do you know differently about what happened? Sorry, can't control my curiosity

Regards,
Sarah

speleobat2 · Post by **speleobat2** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:22 pm

Hi Sarah,

Yes, I have them! May dies and William remarries after dumping his kids on their grandparents which means he couldn't be the grain merchant who dies in 1845. I'd have to dig out my notes, but that family goes on to become quite large and one or two of them move to Canada. If I remember correctly, William ducks the census after 1851, but shows up on either marriage certs or death certs after that. Peter, I think, marries a Margaret Park and regenerates the family. Eventually, several of them end up buried in the Stuartfield cemetery which I know because when Paula D was looking for her family there she spotted several gravestones for Clerihews and sent me pictures. Paula and I connected because we are both looking for Barclays in Aberdeenshire--not the same ones though. See what happens when you pull on one end of the string!

Carol