Also inspired by #OnePlaceStudies10, @Janealogy is sharing, here on Mastodon, 10 events in the lives of her #OnePlaceStudy people in North Walls and Brims, #Orkney, which took place during the month of September.
This blog post has the first five: https://janealogy.co.uk/blog/oneplace10_1/
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Responses to #OnePlaceStudies10, the blogging and social media prompt for our tenth anniversary month, include the addition by @trivvieliz of 10 new #OnePlaceStudy posts to the #Cuckfield Compendium (with 8 completed so far): https://cuckfieldcompendium.co.uk
Check it out on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Top ten female first names in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney 1861 Census.
Top ten surnames in my #OnePlaceStudy #NorthWallsAndBrims #Orkney 1861 Census:
Robeson/Robson
Sutherland
Wilson
Ross
Smith
Manson
Thompson/Thomson
Swanson/Swanston
Johnston
Nicholson/Nicolson
#OnThisDay #NorthWallsAndBrims
Grace Cantley was baptised on 24 September 1835, youngest child of Nathaniel Cantley and Margaret Moar.. Her father was a Chelsea Pensioner and gardener at #Melsetter (the big hoose), originally from #Kirkcudbrightshire.
Grace married John Wilson, Scews, North Walls, in 1856. They moved to the Crockness area where Grace died on 6 February 1880 shortly after the birth of her ninth child.
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“John George Heddle, Landed Proprietor... died 1869 September 23rd, 6h pm, in the Links near Melsetter Parish of Walls, #Orkney, M, aged 49 years... of a Gun Shot wound severing the Spine and passing into the abdomen caused by the accidental discharge of a fowling piece”. He was the owner of most of Walls, Hoy and land on the Orkney mainland.
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22 September 1814 William Johnston from Brims, Walls #Orkney married Ann Mackay, Dispoly, in Reay parish #Caithness. They lived in Brims and had at least 9 children. Ann died in 1870 aged 72; William a fisherman and farmer died in 1880 aged 93.
Wives from "across the [Pentland] Firth" were not uncommon in Walls. Dispoly (Deasphollag) was in Strath Halladale, Sutherland.
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