Month: January 2024
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The Feu Register
When I started out studying Scottish ancestry and house history, I was introduced to things such as the Sasine Register and Feu Duties. It was where property transfers and ownership were registered and where the registration of Feu Duties were made. It has taken my own research into the history of my house in Earlspark…
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A Police Constable in Yorkshire
I have been researching the McKie family for some time ever since I started family history research about nine years ago. I have gone back three generations to their life in Kirkinner, Wigtownshire (now Dumfries and Galloway). The tragic loss of John McKie at the age of 33 left his wife Agnes caring for six…
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Anniversary Review
It is a year since I created this blog and I thought I would share some thoughts about its progress. Instant Cousins started as a result of my frustrations about how I could write about by research and how to publish it. A couple of years before the Covid lockdown I had attended a brilliant…
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Herbert Wilcox
This is the story of Herbert and his family and my unknowing connection with his grandson. Herbert was the eldest son of my Great Grandfather John Thomas Wilcox, but not the first born. He was born in in 1874 and baptised on December 13th. That was 149 years ago. The Wilcox family were living in…