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The Moosie Tooer, Part of the Bishops Palace Kirkwall 2 NEWSLETTER of the ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY Issue No37 March 06 NEWSLETTER OFSIBTHE ORKNEY FAMIFOLKLY HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSISSUE 37 MARCH 2006 The Moosie Tooer, part of the Bishops Palace Kirkwall 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY Issue No37 March 06 ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTER Issue No 37 March 2006 CONTENTS FRONT PAGE The Moosie Tooer From the chair PAGE 2 From the Chair. PAGE 3 December Minutes a plea for help and some Homecoming 2007 PAGES 4 dates for your diary ... Queen Victoria magazine for you to fill in showing PAGE 5 I thought I would take this Vedder. opportunity to let our members your interest. It seems a long way off The Seasons know of the Orkney Islands but we need to get our plans in PAGE 6 The Death of James Council’s plans to have an ‘Orkney place so we are ready when the time Fea VI Homecoming 2007’ in May 2007. As comes. PAGES 7 & 8 we would be very much involved As for this year’s meetings we plan Final part of the Groundwater with the family history enthusiasts to have speakers Jim Hewitson in exodus we are already in the early stages of March and Elizabeth Briggs in PAGE 9 planning how to cope with the April and of course our AGM on 4th Hints from Robert Whitton number of visitors who will arrive May. on our shores and the committee Our ‘Summer Ooting’ will be to PAGES 10 & 11 Understanding has had two meetings so far to Sanday this year the date is yet to be Heraldry discuss the arrangements. confirmed, depending on boat PAGES 12 & 13 We would be very grateful if any of timetables. As soon as we can fin- The Oldest Tombstone in our members who are ‘coming alise the details we will be posting Orkney home’ would let us know in the information on our website, so PAGES 14 & 15 advance and we will do what we check out <www.orkneyfhs.co.uk> Uncle Billie can to make their visit a productive from time to time for the up-to-date PAGES 16 & 17 The Grays of the one. We would also be grateful if our position. North Isles local members would indicate their PAGE 18 willingness to help show people A Peek at Post Past Anne Rendall where their ancestral home is etc. CHAIRMAN PAGE 19 We are including a flyer in the Can you help Ian Corsie? PAGES 20 & 21 Robert Garrioch Our cover picture PAGE 22 The Moosie Tooer, as it is known locally, is the magnificent round Summersdale. The tower at the north west corner of the Bishop’s Palace Kirkwall. Last Battle Practically nothing remains of the original building in which PAGE 23 King Haakon of Norway died in 1263 after his defeat at the Lorraine Louttit Hilton’s Battle of Largs. Internet Journey The Moosie Tooer formed part of the extensive reconstruction of the building by Bishop Reid in the mid 16th century. The 5 storey PAGE 24 tower, while round externally, had rooms that were Membership Details approximately square and included the Bishop’s own personal apartments. The tower has a cap-house with a small square room inside. Issue No37 March 06 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY 3 Minutes of the Orkney another Orkney Homecoming in May 2007 Family History Society Open and she asked if any members had any ideas for events for the Society to arrange when Meeting held on Thur 12th the visitors are here. One of the days when Jan 2006 at 7.30pm in the the visitors are here is to be called “John Supper Room of the Rae Day”. It is also hoped that the Orkney Family History Society will work with the Kirkwall Town Hall Archives Dept and will arrange to have the hairperson, Anne Rendall, welcomed MacGillivray Room available to help visitors every-one and wished them a Happy with their research. It was agreed that the CNew Year. OFHS Committee should meet on 26th Jan.. She reported that at the moment we were to discuss the Homecoming in more detail. having a few problems arranging our Open George Gray read out some queries from meetings but it was hoped over the next few new members asking for help to trace their months that Sheena Whenham would be ancestors. There were requests from available to give us a talk on St Mary’s. The members searching Robertson/Robsons from Westray Young Heritage Group also wished Walls, Irvines from Eday and Stronsay, to come along to a meeting as they needed Louttits from Rousay and many others. an audience to help them with their project Anne then introduced Betty Cameron who on Westray and Papa Westray place names. had come to talk to us on Queen Victoria’s In April the Society is delighted to have travels through Scotland. An account of her Elizabeth Briggs from Canada and she will talk appears elsewhere in the magazine. talk to the Society on her work with the Anne then thanked Betty for her most Did Hudson’s Bay Archives in Winnipeg. interesting talk and slides. She also said you know? Anne also said that Dr Alison Brown from that it seemed as if Betty was talking about While many Orcadians Aberdeen University was giving a talk in the her own family as she remembered all the emigrated to Australia at Stromness Museum on 20th January. Her names and places so well. least one from Orkney talk is entitled Treasures: Family Heirlooms The meeting finished with a cup of tea and went as a guest of H.M. and Fur Trade History. a blether. Thanks again to Mags and Annie Government. Anne also announced that there was to be for helping with the tea. William Sinclair was Postmaster in Stromness until he was arrested in March 1851. He was tried in March 1852 in the High Court in Edinburgh and convicted on the charge of embezzling and secreting letters. Despite 10 years of loyal service and a ‘good Second Homecoming being planned now. character’ plea by the local minister, William In 1999 around 250 Canadians sailed into Orkney Archives and The Family History Sinclair was sentenced Stromness Harbour to a rousing welcome Society will be able to arrange special to seven years from the many descendants of their families events. The Archive, within the new Orkney transportation to be who had left Orkney, in some cases Library and Archive building is obviously served in Tasmania, hundreds of years ago. more accessible than it was, and the Family Western Australia. The In January this year Max Johnston, History Society also has its own base there. total amount of Sinclair’s president of the Great Canadian Travel Both hope to be open longer and help more embezzlement was Company, who had helped organise the people with their research.” between £1 and £2 and original event, arrived in Orkney to begin Following the original Homecoming there whether he completed preparations for Orkney Homecoming 2007. have been a number of cultural exchanges his sentence or died He linked up again with Cameron Taylor, including transatlantic tours by while serving it is not who was chief executive of Orkney Tourist Hadhirgaan in 2000 and 2005 and the known as nothing was Board when the first Homecoming took hugely successful Saskatchewin First ever heard of him again. place and is now Chairman of Orkney Nations Coming Home event which saw a Homecoming 2007. group of Cree visitors in Orkney during Meetings were held with Orkney Archives; September 2004. Orkney Family History Society; Visit A tentative schedule for the 2007 event will Orkney; John Grieve of Discover Orkney; see visitors departing from North America Kim Foden, Tour Guide and the OIC. on May 14, leaving Orkney on May 22. Cameron Taylor said that the response from You’ll find more information on the website these areas had been “fantastic” and he www.orkneyhomecoming.com where you can added: “As part of the 2007 Homecoming, also register for e-mail updates. 4 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEYFAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Issue No37 March 06 QueenQueen VictoriaVictoria andand aa lifetimelifetime lovelove ofof ScotlandScotland ueen Victoria was crowned in 1838 on to Lochgilphead where they sailed up the and married Albert in 1840. Although Crinan Canal in a small boat. After a night Qthey travelled extensively in England in Crinan they visited Tobermory and it was not until 1842 that they embarked at Fingal’s Cave. Albert and his brother took Woolwich on the antiquated royal yacht this opportunity to visit Glencoe, the site of Royal George for Scotland. The long journey the infamous massacre of the Macdonalds was unpleasant. The cumbersome sailing by the Campbells in 1692, but the weather ship had to be towed by two steamers and was dismal and they would see little. The most of the royal party were seasick. following day they set out for Ardverikie (the Despite this poor start the visit to house in the TV programme Monarch of the This is a brief Scotland was a success and the couple Glen). This was to be their holiday home for r´esume´ of the most immediately fell in love with the country. some weeks. The Queen remarked ‘There is interesting talk They were favourably impressed with the little to say of our stay here, the country is given by Betty architecture of Edinburgh where they fine but the weather is terrible’. visited the castle to view the Honours of In 1849 they were in Glasgow for a much Cameron at our Scotland. Prince Albert was greatly taken awaited visit and after their official duties meeting on the with Perth which he said reminded him of they headed for Balmoral.
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