This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.4.1 Message Board Post: thank you for the reply Howard - I have the same names in the tree I am researching. Wm Hardie born 3/12/1772 and Eliz Smout, they married on 24/11/1792. I believe that their daughter Margaret was married to my partner's G G Grandfather William Brown. Is this the same family? Or was this just "miscellanious" info you gathered up? Fiona

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SMOUT SMOLLET JOASS HARDIE CRUICKSHANK Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.4 Message Board Post: Whilst researching the parentage of John HARDIE or HARDY who married my 2xgt-gdmother Janet CRUICKSHANK, I came across the family in Alvah of William HARDY/HARDIE & Elizabeth SMOLLET/SMOUT. I also discovered that the surname SMOUT in at least one situation became SMOLLET; my original notes proving this are presently too thoroughly buried to dig them out but I daresay a review of the IGI will show this fairly convincingly. The Alvah OPR has: 1. "John L. S. [lawful son] of William HARDIE & Elizabeth SMOUT in Kirktown of Alvah was born 19th day of April & baptized 16 April 1797. Witnesses Mr Alexr MILNE(S?) Schoolmaster of Alvah and John SIM in Manderless" - Alvah OPR 19-4-1797. 2. "John L. S. of John HARDIE & Martha SMITH in Mains of Dunlugas was born & baptized April 13th. Witnesses Alexander JOASS & John GREIG both in Mains of Dunlugas." - Alvah OPR 13-4-1793. Hope this helps. Howard

Hi everyone I have had some emails asking what the Libindx is. This is the online library index of genealogical references provided by Morayshire Councils Local Heritage Service and covers many parishes including those from Moray and some ones from Banff. Try the following web sites for more information. they are very helpful. http://www.moray.gov.uk/LocalHeritage/Assets/html_pages/morayheritage.html http://www.moray.gov.uk/LocalHeritage/Assets/html_pages/tracing_roots.html http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp You just may find that elusive branch of your tree! Best wishes Julia M Mudd Dundee, Scotland

Hi everyone Its been a while since I have looked at my names from Banffshire and Morayshire, but after another search of the Libindex, there are a number of my OLIVE ancesters newspaper death notifications on it and also references to headstones. Would someone be kind enough to tell me how I would get copies of the newspaper articles and MI's that the Lidindex has come up with. Thanks Julia M Mudd Dundee, Scotland Researching: OLIVE, DAVIDSON, SIVERIGHT, YOUNIE in Banffshire/Morayshire

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.3.1 Message Board Post: thanks to all who responded to the query on Smout surname. I have received some excellent advice and links from the query and will follow these up.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.3 Message Board Post: There are three Smouts and five Joasses listed at http://libindx.moray.gov.uk A few of them lived in the Keith-Cullen area.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.2 Message Board Post: A quick look in the Index to MIs (www.abdnet.co.uk/mi-index) shows just 2 SMOUTs (both in Alvah), and quite a number of JOSSes, spread over about 30 kirkyards.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785.1 Message Board Post: Anne reported she had a University tutor called SMOUT. I suspect that will have been Christopher SMOUT, an eminent historian of Scotland - but he is (notoriously) an Englishman who has gone native, so that doesn't help much.

> I have been tracing my partner's family tree and we came up > unexpectantly > with the surname of smout, which I had never > seen or heard of before, also > the surname Joass. Both > names seem to have drawn a blank as far as > researching further - does anyone have any information? I > think we are > looking at the Banff or Keith area. Well, I had a tutor named Smout when I was at university, and I have in my tree a family whose surname is spelled variously as Joss or Joass. The IGI http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true has 447 listings of Joss/Joass in Banffshire, and 84 for Smout. LIBINDX http://libindx.moray.gov.uk/mainmenu.asp has 56 Joss and 3 Smout listings. HTH Anne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: smout and joass Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/2785 Message Board Post: I have been tracing my partner's family tree and we came up unexpectantly with the surname of smout, which I had never seen or heard of before, also the surname Joass. Both names seem to have drawn a blank as far as researching further - does anyone have any information? I think we are looking at the Banff or Keith area.

> I am looking for any information regarding > Evelyn Helen Mclachlan c 1928 Ballindalloch > > I would really like to know if she is still alive. > If not then a death date and possibly a marriage after1955 Even if I knew, I would not put information about living people online in a mailing list. There are two ways of approaching this. You could write a letter to the editor of the local paper asking for information. The local paper is the Northern Scot, 74-76 South Street, Elgin IV30 1JG or e-mail admin@northern-scot.co.uk Altenartively, you could get an Edinburgh-based researcher to check the marriage and death records to see if she married and/or died. There are links to lists of researchers on www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk HTH Anne

I am looking for any information regarding Evelyn Helen Mclachlan c 1928 Ballindalloch I would really like to know if she is still alive. If not then a death date and possibly a marriage after1955 Any help please Thanks GLoryer

With reference to the recent correspondence on servants of the Earls of Fife, I have just come across one in Macduff: Here lie interred the remains of Margaret Turnbul who departed this life on the 27th October, 1808 in the 85th year of her age. She was a servant in the family of Fife for 65 years; and, as a testimony of her faithful services during that long period, this stone is erected by James, the present Earl of Fife. This was the first person to be buried in Macduff. Elizabeth Gabriel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/424.1.2 Message Board Post: Yes please I dont have a lot of info on that side of the family. Thanks Alex

Dear Listers, My granny's cousin Elspeth Ann Chalmers wa born in Port Tannachy, Enzie in 1875, but went to live in Main Street, Buckie when her mother remarried in 1881 the widower David Mair. Elspeth did not marry and died of bowel cancer in 1854 in Seafield Hospital , Buckie. Her home address being Wilson's Avenue, Buckie. So for all of her adult life she lived in Buckie. Alas I know nothing at all about her. Does anyone? 1854 seems not so long ago, and I hope someone from the area may recall something about her. Her step brother's and sisters may well have had children. Please could the good folk of Buckie wrack their brains and see if they can recall anything that may help me picture her life. Mary

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReC.2ACI/1456.1515.1520.1523.1532.1572.1623.1624.3.2.1 Message Board Post: sorry to butt into your post but i have a lillias ross in my tree and was just wondering if you had any information on her and if she married a silvester crockett at any point.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/925.947 Message Board Post: Hallo Ian, I'm also looking for Scott's from Banff and Moray. I don't recognise any of your names but I've not got that far back yet. What I wanted to ask you is, have you a Peter Scott in your family born abt 1872 possibly in Portsoy ? He's my gg grandfather. Thanks Joyce.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mary Ann Ogilvie/ Andrew Chalmers Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ReC.2ACI/1906.2078.3.2 Message Board Post: Dear Honor, I believe we are researching the same family of mary Ann Watt Ogilvie/Andrew Chalmers. We are descended from Alexander Ogilvie Chalmers which if I'm correct is the brother of James Ogilvie born 8 Dec 1843 Boyndie. Banff, your gg grandfather. I have photos of Alexander O. and his wife's Ann Anderson's family. Love to exchange info. Kerrie

Hi All, Anyone know if any of the above GRANT's ended up in NZ? I have a GRANT, a REID and a GEORGE coming to NZ in the 1870's. Know it was James Stewart GEORGE but do not have the first names of the other two. James GEORGE was a Rothiemay man. Regards, Stew WATSON King Country, New Zealand

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReC.2ACI/1316.2150 Message Board Post: Hi, l was wondering if you knew the names of Jane McWilliams parents?, l have a g g grandfather Hugh McWilliam that l am trying to find siblings for. l have his parents as Mary Morrison & Hugh McWilliam, Any conncection?