Marvin Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 On 01/04/2020 at 13:28, ...a bit disco said: Scrabble with family is ill advised at the best of times! Anything but Monopoly. I fecking hate that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 For anybody interested in doing their family tree, here are the sort of things just waiting for you to find. Following on from the chap I wrote about, who spent a month in jail for poaching, his wife in the early 1900's raised a petition in court under the 'Presumption of life Limitation (Scotland) Act 1891'. Basically she wanted the court to declare one of her brothers deceased, the story goes, that he'd left Scotland in 1858 for Australia and it was believed that he'd been murdered in the Australian bush sometime around 1859, she wanted the court to declare her as the last and sole remaining member of her family. There had to be money or property or something worthwhile for her to raise the court case in the first place, anyway the court declared him as deceased on the 31 December 1865. I have as yet not discovered why she raised the court case, however in the 1911 census her and her husband were of 'Independant Means' so they must have got something, what that was I don't know.....................yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 hour ago, RobboM said: True story (I've been promised) from way back in the day, certainly pre-digital Stroppy and beligerent Australian visitor arrived at West Register House. They had traced their ancestry back to a Scottish convict transported to Australia for a crime commited here and to be able to trace back that far is quite prestigious in a way. The Aussie demanded to see the court records of the bullying British state who condemned their g-g-g-g-g-grandfather for such a trivial misdemeanour, probably petty theft to feed their family or something similarly noble. Genuinely turned out they were actually convicted and transported for animal bestiality 😄 Perhaps where the Wallaby song comes from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobboM Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 16 minutes ago, Jambo-Jimbo said: For anybody interested in doing their family tree, here are the sort of things just waiting for you to find. Following on from the chap I wrote about, who spent a month in jail for poaching, his wife in the early 1900's raised a petition in court under the 'Presumption of life Limitation (Scotland) Act 1891'. Basically she wanted the court to declare one of her brothers deceased, the story goes, that he'd left Scotland in 1858 for Australia and it was believed that he'd been murdered in the Australian bush sometime around 1859, she wanted the court to declare her as the last and sole remaining member of her family. There had to be money or property or something worthwhile for her to raise the court case in the first place, anyway the court declared him as deceased on the 31 December 1865. I have as yet not discovered why she raised the court case, however in the 1911 census her and her husband were of 'Independant Means' so they must have got something, what that was I don't know.....................yet. I'm not an archivist but I did work on the digitisation of a number of record series that might help around that period, I'm sure you'll be aware of some (or all) Any wills https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/wills-and-testaments For property records you can check Valuation Rolls to see if their status changed (eg tenant to owner) and Sasines to see if a property transfer was recorded https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/valuation-rolls https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/sasines Any miscellaneous deed recorded in the courts (nb source material hadn't been digitised when I retired and the indexes were rudimentary) https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/deeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 18 minutes ago, redjambo said: Perhaps where the Wallaby song comes from. Surely it was 'Tie me kangaroo down', makes it easier to...........................better not finish that sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¼½¾ Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 minute ago, Jambo-Jimbo said: Surely it was 'Tie me kangaroo down', makes it easier to...........................better not finish that sentence. I'm surprised that song wasn't 'Tie me joey down'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 1 minute ago, RobboM said: I'm not an archivist but I did work on the digitisation of a number of record series that might help around that period, I'm sure you'll be aware of some (or all) Any wills https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/wills-and-testaments For property records you can check Valuation Rolls to see if their status changed (eg tenant to owner) and Sasines to see if a property transfer was recorded https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/valuation-rolls https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/sasines Any miscellaneous deed recorded in the courts (nb source material hadn't been digitised when I retired and the indexes were rudimentary) https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/deeds Whatever it was it was probably cash or something of value to sell, maybe shares, because they stayed in the same rented house that'd been in for decades and whatever it was doesn't seem to have been passed down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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