Janealogy Scottish Fam HistSep 17, 2023
#OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims
Hellen Nicholson was born on 17 September 1861 in Brims #Orkney youngest child of Ralph Nicholson, fisherman, and Helen Ritch. She married Alexander Groat, baker & grocer, in 1885 (2nd wife). They had nine sons. She died at Northrow, South Walls in 1911 from TB. Her descendants still run the local shop. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlace10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy
Janealogy Scottish Fam HistSep 13, 2023

#OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims

Barbara Swanson was baptised on 13 Sept 1830 in Walls, #Orkney, #Scotland, daughter of William Swanson and Elizabeth Sandison, from the Rinnigill area. In 1855, Barbara married William Melvin, a ship’s carpenter from Cava, Orkney, who died in 1861. They had two children, William and Elizabeth (died in her teens). Barbara then lived with her brother George in Rinnigill where she died in 1900. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlace10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons

Janealogy Scottish Fam HistSep 12, 2023
Jean Sabeston may have married James Whelan #OnThisDay 12 Sept 1868 in Greenock. Born 8 May 1835 to James Sabeston and his wife Jean Wilson, North Walls, #Orkney, #Scotland (living in Mill Bay area 1861 Census). Marriage record has her mother as Wason rather than Wilson, age 30 rather than 33, but husband younger. Dead before 1871 Census. Is it her? #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlace10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons
Show threadJanealogy Scottish Fam HistSep 11, 2023
@SocOnePlaceStudies considering 10 people from my original group, a lot of work if I pick them in fairly strict 10th of the population order. Or ten #OnThisDay posts. #OnePlace10 #OnePlaceStudy
Janealogy Scottish Fam HistSep 11, 2023
Cathrine Wilson was baptised #OnThisDay 11 Sept 1854 in Walls #Orkney #Scotland, daughter of Robert Wilson and Jean McIntyre, Crockness. Born 24 March. Her father Robert was "drowned by the upsetting of a boat with peats betwixt Graemsay & Stromness" on 18 April 1854. #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlace10 #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #Geneadons
Show threadSociety for One-Place StudiesAug 26, 2023
#OnePlace10 ideas? How about Ten Things about your place? Ten favourite pictures / documents relating to your #OnePlaceStudy. The Top Ten occupations, or surnames, and how they changed over time. A #HouseHistory of number 10 in your #StreetStudy (or a street in your wider OPS). Ten interesting people from your place, or a family can follow for ten generations. If your study has been going for ten years or more, what has changed in that time? Or look ahead to what the next ten years might bring!
Society for One-Place StudiesAug 26, 2023

September is approaching and with it, our 10th anniversary – and a new #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt: #OnePlace10! 🔟

Blog or post about anything relating to ten/10 and your #OnePlaceStudy. If you don't have a website for your OPS, consider submitting a post for the Society's blog. If you're quick, you also submit an article for September's issue of our members' journal Destinations.

#FamilyHistory #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #OnePlace10

Society for One-Place StudiesJul 19, 2023

At-ten-tion! What better way to celebrate our 10th birthday in September than with the terrific 10-day event All About That Place? If you're interested—however ten-tatively—in contributing a short talk, go to https://subscribepage.com/speakers

#OnePlaceStudies #OnePlace10 #OnePlaceWednesday #FamilyHistory #LocalHistory

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