Lanarkshire FHS

marypryde · Post by **marypryde** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:28 pm

I can't seem to raise a response from this organization. I registered for forum membership on 22 April and was advised to wait "a few minutes" for a confirming email. I sent a follow-up query a week later (4/30) and received no response to that. I just tried to log on again and it still comes up "registration not activated."

Does anyone know if this organization has gone out of business or if I'm doing something wrong?

Mary Ellen

Post by **paddyscar** » Thu May 14, 2009 4:42 pm

Hi Mary Ellen:

It seems that Lanarkshire Family History Society is having some trouble with their site, but they've not gone out of business, as their home page indicates an event on May 14th.

"We apologise for the recent website problems in particular problems with the Publications pages, please mail us from the contact page with your queries."

Directions on how to contact them are outlined on this site page

http://www.lanarkshirefhs.org.uk/page.php?id=4

Hope this helps,
Frances

Post by **Anne H** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:33 pm

Hi Mary Ellen and Frances,

LFHS doesn't seem to be very well organized as far as their website is concerned. I was a member before they started having problems a while ago and since the problems started, I haven't been able to log on. I also tried to re-register under a different name and didn't receive that awaited email "in a few minutes". I also sent an enquiry and received no response.

It looks to me as if they don't want to be bothered with the forum or they're just not "in tune" with it.

Regards,
Anne H

marypryde · Post by **marypryde** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:52 pm

Thanks for both replies.

Frances - I did try one more time at the "website" address. Will advise if I ever receive a response.

Anne - Your experience reassures me that I am not alone in this.

Guess I'll try another way to poke around Lanarkshire for a while.

Mary Ellen

Post by **paddyscar** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:58 pm

Hi Anne H:

That's too bad, but we're certainly interested (and helpful)

Mary Ellen will certainly find that you and all the rest of us are more than willing to help out with her queries if she posts them here.

Our TalkingScot Presentation is available by clicking on the box in the header, and may show the best ways we can help.

Frances

Post by **Anne H** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:15 pm

Hi Frances,

I must be having a bad day...at first I thought you were saying you were part of LFHS.

You are right...Mary Ellen will get lots of response from our TS members but we all like to look in on other discussion groups once in a while especially when they concentrate on our particular area of interest.

Regards,
Anne H

marypryde · Post by **marypryde** » Thu May 14, 2009 7:23 pm

Let me make it clear that I have found folks on TS to be heart-warmingly helpful. One admin (without being asked) even went out and took photos of an obscure hamlet for me.

The Fife FHS has also been very responsive and friendly. That's why I am disappointed that I am apparently not going to have the same from Lanarkshire, now that I am focusing on that side of the family.

I'll try to explain what I'm looking for in Lanarkshire in a more appropriate thread on TS.
Mary Ellen

Andrew C. · Post by **Andrew C.** » Fri May 15, 2009 4:54 pm

I am sure there was a thread on here a while back saying that the Lanarkshire FHS site had been hacked into and vandalise(?). I tried to find the thread but couldn't find it. As it say it was a long time ago so they should have resolved the problem unles the person responsible for the site was just to scunnered to continue.

Mary are you any relation to the Bellshill Prydes?

marypryde · Post by **marypryde** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:25 pm

Had to stop and look up Bellshills, so hadn't seen that word anywhere.

Not that I know of, Andrew. My Pryde's came down from Robert Vethay Pryde (coalminer) m. Mary Doig, Oct 19,1854 in Fife, and their daughter Isabella, who had at least 3 illegitimate sons, thus my maiden name is Pryde rather than ??? Robert and Mary Pryde did have a lot of other children besides Isabella and at least one, John, was with the railroad - so someone could have wound up in Lanarkshire, I suppose.

All I know for sure is that my grandfather, James Pryde, one of the 3 illegitimate sons of Isabella Pryde, wandered off from Largo, Fife and married my grandmother whose father, John Burnside Thomson, was Estate Manager at Calderwood Castle in Lanarkshire.They moved to the USA in 1912 and I knew all of their children as my aunts and uncles.

Coincidentally (or not?), when John Burnside Thomson (Grandpa's new father-in-law of Calderwood Castle) remarried in 1905, the officiating minister was "Thomas Pryde, Minister of Stonefield Blantyre." I have not yet attempted to find out if Rev. Thomas Pryde was tied to my Fife Pryde's somehow - no Thomas on my radar anywhere else.

Please do let me know if you find a connection. Thanks,
Mary Ellen

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Sat May 16, 2009 4:40 am

Hello Mary,

The 1920 edition of “Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland” (page 279) has an entry for Thomas Pryde but you can see only a snippet which goes like this (according to the OCR but the 1880 may be in the margin).

“The parish of Stonefield was disjoined from Blantyre, 24th Feb. 1890.] THOMAS PRYDE, born Logie, Fife, 22nd Dec. 1850, son of James P. and 1880 Elspeth Colon; educated at Logie School, Madras College, and Univ. of St Andrews; MA (1873); licen. by Presb. of Cupar-Fife ………”
http://www.google.com.au/books?q=%22tho ... arch+Books

And this would be him on the IGI:

THOMAS PRIDE
Birth: 22 DEC 1850
Christening: 18 FEB 1851, Logie, Fife, Scotland
Father: JAMES PRIDE
Mother: ELSPETH COLNE
Extracted birth or christening record

ELSPETH COLNE
Marriages: Spouse: JAMES PRIDE
08 MAR 1850 Logie, Fife, Scotland
Extracted marriage record

Hope that helps,
Alan