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A Quiet Pier on the Stromness Waterfront 2 NEWSLETTER of the ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY Issue No34 June 05 NEWSLETTER OFSIBTHE ORKNEY FAMIFOLKLY HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSISSUE 34 JUNE 2005 A quiet pier on the Stromness waterfront 2 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY Issue No34 June 05 ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLETTR Issue No 34 June 2005 We’ve now reached CONTENTS 800 paid up members FRONT PAGE A Stromness Pier The Society is looking very healthy now with over 800 paid up members , which is very encouraging PAGE 2 for the committee and volunteers. I am pleased to From the Chair. see more local people starting to use the office , PAGE 3 hopefully with our advertisement and leaflets being distributed the Just a minute word is spreading where to find us. PAGE 4 & 5 Those of you who have logged on to our web-site lately will see that The two there is a lot more information available for you. If you haven’t Sergeant Stoves logged on yet please do at www.orkneyfhs.co.uk, thanks to David PAGE 6 & 7 Higgins’ design it is very user friendly. The Shearers of We have finally finished transcribing the deaths off the Old Parish Stronsay. Help a Moodie Records on to computer, many thanks to Ian and Betty Cameron for ploughing through the Kirkwall one. I don’t envy them that task, I PAGE 8, 9 and 10 had enough trouble with the ones I did. Vedder Part 4 Its good to hear from all our members who are planning a visit to PAGE 11 Orkney this year and we are hoping to have some information for Ernie all at sea you when you arrive. Anyone who is planning a holiday in Orkney is PAGE 12-14 very welcome to visit us in our office, upstairs in the Orkney Library General Custer & Archive. and the Orkney Our last two monthly meetings were very interesting with “The connection Orkney Lad” film being shown in March about a girl from Orphir PAGE 15 & 16 The will of John who signed up for the Hudson’s Bay Co. dressed as a boy. In April we Wallace had an open night at the Archive , with a very interesting display of PAGE 17 photos, maps, school registers etc. just a very small sample of the Help another records they have stored there. I am sure they will get a few extra Moodie visits from the members who were lucky enough to be there. PAGE18 & 19 Anne Rendall, Chairman. Hazards of Climbing a FamilyTree PAGE 20 ‘Well I never knew that’ Robbie in the And we’ll never know what it was that sharn caught Elsie’s eye when our April open PAGE 21 meeting visited the archive.We are for- An Orkney tunate to have such a facility with Wedding unrestricted access to the records of the PAGE 22 local authority; the sheriff and the justice Malcomson of the peace courts; custom and excise; claptrap presbytery and kirk session. You can also access the family and estate PAGE 23 papers of local businesses and prominent Now that’s Orcadians; see census schedules; view Strange local newspapers on microfilm; see thousands of photographs or listen to PAGE 24 items from our oral history archive Membership We are grateful to the archive staff for the trouble they took in providing so many interesting items for our visit. ■ Issue No34 June 05 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY 3 introduce the film which he had arranged to Just a Minute have sent over by Phil Astley. Alan then explained how he remembered Minutes of the Orkney Family History when the film was made in Orkney and how Society Open Meeting held on Thursday he was disappointed that they hadn’t filmed 10th March 2005 in the Supper Room, the house in Orphir where Isabella Gunn had lived with her family. He also showed Kirkwall & St Ola Town Hall the book which had been written about her Chairman Anne Rendall welcomed story and said the film was slightly different everyone to the meeting and congratulated but he thought that probably the film was the people who made the journey from the most accurate as the film makers had outside Kirkwall on such a stormy night. used the records held at the Hudson’s Bay Apologies were received from Gillian Co. The film starts with Isabella’ s brother If you are a young lady Mooney and Helen Manson. arriving home injured from the HBC. with an urge to tell the Anne made a plea for anyone interested in Isabella then decides to go to Stromness, future a visit to the being on call for office duty especially to dressed as a man, and signs on with the Orkney island of Stronsay could well cover holiday periods. HBC under the name Foubister. She stayed provide the answer. On Future open meetings were confirmed for and worked for the Company until she gave Stronsay you will find April 14th in the Kirkwall Library & Archive birth to a boy. The film assumed that the many magnificent where it was planned to have an open night father was probably her immediate boss beaches and the one in the Family History Office and the John Scarth. After the baby was born she that faces Mill Bay is Archives will put on a display that they stayed for a time working in the Fort but particularly beautiful. At thought would interest our members. eventually came home and she is found in its centre is the The AGM was set for May 12th in the the 1821 Stromness census living with her ‘Maidens Chair’ and it is Supper Room, Kirkwall Town Hall & the son John Scarth. said that the girl who speaker is to be Sarah Jane Grieve. Anne thanked Alan for arranging for us to sits in the ‘chair’ will be granted the ability to Our annual trip in June is booked for see the film. The evening ended with foretell the future. Sunday the 26th June for Eday. everyone having a cup of tea served by Mags As with all these tales, Anne then asked Alan Clouston to and Annie. somewhere along the line there is a witch. Minutes of Open meeting held on Thursday hotels and B&B s in their area. Anne also True to form Stronsay had a witch too; Scota 14th April at 7.30 pm in the MacGillivray asked for articles for the magazine . George Gray then read out a list of queries Bess, a storm witch no less, who used the chair Room at the Orkney Library & Archive he had received by e-mail and letter asking Chairman Anne Rendall opened the meeting as her throne and there for help in tracing families. she sat, casting spells and welcomed everyone. The staff in the Archives had also arranged Apologies were received from Ian & Betty and dreaming up all for the The MacGillvary room to be lined sorts of devilment. Cameron, Frank Eunson, Olaf & Gillian with photographs from the Highland Park At that time Stronsay Mooney and Mrs Mahoney. collection and the Archivists had a very had a large fishing Anne announced that the June trip to Eday interesting display of books, photographs, population and Scota’s has been arranged for June 26th . The boat maps and scrap books which was of great tricks were playing fare would be £12 or £6 concession. Lunch of interest to the OFHS members.Tea was havoc with the catches. soup, sandwich and tea would be in the served during the evening by volunteers and Negotiations, if any, failed and and without School at £4 per head. The cost of the the meeting ended all too soon. Transport on the island is to be advised. Sui further ado Scota was Generis admission charge is £2.50. However, beaten to death and we are not able to contact Mrs Joy about buried. But Scota would not stay in the ground. seeing Carrick house until the end of May. Life on Swona Time and time again she The list for names of people wanting to go on was interred and next the trip along with a map of Eday was at the morning there she was back of the room. SOCIAL HISTORY RECORD again disinterred. In the Anne also announced the timings for the c 1851 to the present day end burial was evening saying that tea would be available abandoned and they I am trying to build up a picture of the lives from 8.45 and if possible for people to be out chucked her body into of the people who lived on Swona, last of the Library by 9.30 the Meikle Water. inhabited in1974, and I hope to involve as Anne also mentioned that the OFHS advert This did the trick; well many people as possible. that was now in the Islander and said the hopefully, because one The family names I believe to be of these days she might committee was very pleased with it .It is associated with the island are: Budge, just pop out of the quite colourful and hopefully would catch Gunn, Norquoy, Rosie, Sabiston and faucet, for Meikle Water the eye. She also thanked John Sinclair for Cromarty. is the main source of designing the advert and the OFHS leaflets I would be grateful for any information . fresh water on Stronsay. that we have had printed They have now Eva S Donald, 9 Glenhome Walk, Dyce arrived and ready for distribution. Anne Aberdeen AB21 7FJ Tel.01224 723440 asked for members to distribute them to 4 NEWSLETTER OF THE ORKNEY FAMILY HISTORYSOCIETY Issue No34 June05 “Hi - I am a great- great-great- grand-daughter of The Sergeant: the Part one—The Sergeant Robert Stove and his son.
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