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Sib Folk News the Newsletter of the Orkney Family History Society Issue No 7 October 1998 Sib Folk News The Newsletter of the Orkney Family History Society Issue No 7 October 1998 Kirk Kraas 1 In this issue From the Chairman 2 From the Editor 3 From the Research Secretary 4 Queries and correspondence 4 Memoirs of Rev Omond 6 A Thames Riverside Family 7 Computers & Family History Programmes 8 Faray, Robbie Leslie Tells its Story 9 TheStronsay Statistical Report — Part 4 11 A Westray Poem — Peedie Buddo 15 From the Chairman Welcome to all readers of Sib Folk News No put us in the picture regarding the Orkney 7. In the last issue we were able to tell you Homecoming. The whole project is being about the generous grant we received from organised by Kathleen in Orkney and by Max the Heritage Lottery Fund. In August the Johnston in Canada. For details one can write local paper carried a picture of the Hon. to The Great Canadian Travel Company, 273 President Brig. Sidney Robertson presenting Donald Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C the treasurer George Gray with the award 1M9. Our research secretary, Dave Higgins, while other office bearers looked on. The is our contact person for the Homecoming sub-committee met and quickly ordered the queries. He can be contacted at 01856 875 equipment that had been listed for the 432 or at Ingavoe, Berstane Road, Kirkwall. project. Almost all of it is now in place and for anyone using the reader or the computer Ex-councillor Alex Annal was the main there are two comfortable chairs! speaker at the September meeting and he enthralled us as he recounted his experiences September has seen a trickle of visitors from in tracing his family history. He could go abroad. One of these was the recently retired back to the fourteenth century and almost Dr Con Scott Reed from Sydney Australia. covered the length and breadth of Scotland in He has been researching the Scott clan for his family research. Definitely material for fifteen years. Before visiting Orkney this an article in SFN! year he spent two weeks in the Netherlands where he found that a certain Simon Scott of In October we are in the Supper Room in Scottish Borders descent had left Holland Kirkwall Town Hall where we are to hear many years ago for the island of Eday to from Tom Muir on Orkney Traditions. demonstrate to the locals how to make salt. November will find us in party mood in the It is hoped that Con will find time to send an Lynfield Hotel. There will be no public article to SFN on his research some time in meeting in December but as I have suggested the future. before, why not write something for Sib Folk News during the Christmas break. The committee has decided that during the winter the society office will not be open The office work continues to go on steadily officially in the evenings. The office will be and I would like to pay tribute to all con- open from 2pm to 430pm on Mondays, cerned. So far the success of the society is Wednesdays, and Fridays, and between due to the enthusiasm of the committee and 1 lam and 4.30pm on Saturdays. However if the dedication of volunteers and support from anyone wishes to use the office facilities at members. Orkney was a bit late in starting a other times they should contact Olaf family history society but I feel we are catch- Mooney on 0185 676 1582, Finstown or any ing up fast! committee member. Membership It was not possible to arrange a society meeting in August but in September we went Membership continues to increase. At the last to St. Margaret's Hope where we were well count there were 270 members. supported by the local and East Mainland people. Kathleen Hogarth of the Orkney Guiding Services was there and very ably 2 From die Editor Statistical Report are continued in this issue. Hello sib folk. It is good to hear that many of The latter's style may seem very archaic and you are making contact with previously long winded but I believe the underlying unknown relations. I was very pleased to account will help readers understand the make contact with another of my sib folk the environment in which their forebears lived other day. This lady is descended from a and the struggles which went on when brother of my grandfather. The society and e- change was in the wind. (What's different in mail have increased the number of new con- these days?) So far I have not had any corre- tacts greatly. spondence about the characters in Omond's memoirs. It appears to me that most of them This issue was a pleasure to compile and met untimely ends. Many of the names are edit, as there was sufficient material for typical Orcadian names and there must be sixteen pages. However the next issue due descendants of these families living in by the end of the year looks pretty scant of Orkney now. It would be good to hear from articles. If you have a contribution to make, them. please let me have it as soon as possible. From the Research Secretary The front cover is a sketch I made from a photograph taken last summer. It shows St We are making good progress with transcri- Magnus Cathedral standing high above bing the census returns with 54 % completed. Tankerness House. I wonder why the crows like flying around the spire? Deerness ( 1821,41-81), Eday (1841-61), Evie & Rendall (1871-91), Firth & Stenness I hope that readers enjoy the late Robbie (1841-91), Harray (1841-91), Holm (1841), Leslie's account of old Faray. I was very Hoy & Graemsay (1841-61,91), North pleased to speak to his wife who is a relative Ronaldsay (1841-91), Orphir (1821,51), of mine ( her grandfather and grand mother Rousay, EgUsay & Wyre (1841-91), St were my great grandparents). She gave me Andrews (1821,51), Sanday (1841-91), permission to transcribe her husband's taped Shapinsay (1841), South Ronaldsay & account and to publish it in SFN. She has Bunay (1851), Stromness - rural (1841-91), also promised that I can have access to his Stronsay (1841-91), Westray & PW (1841- other writings, when she and her sister get 91). time to sort them out Robbie was quite a prolific writer and frequently had articles We hope to sell the census returns, I am just published in the Orcadian. waiting for a reply from HMSO Copyright section. Readers will say that I am biased to Westray but I make no apology for including a poem I think we will have a different price for each written around 1910 by Mary Pottinger of parish, relative to the population, but as yet Lightcost, Westray and latterly of Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada. It is not a literary gem we haven't discussed pricing or whether we but the language is just as I recall my mother should only sell printed copies and not on using. When my aunts and uncles, in disk. Westray get talking, they still speak like this. I had difficulty with only one or two words. Thanks to our volunteer transcribers, inlud- It must be said that few people speak like ing non-resident members Jim Flett, Ken this now and I do not understand how child- Harrison & Jim Seatter. ren can learn to speak the dialect when they do not hear it at home. Many of the poems SFN publishing deadlines and stories I read nowadays in the Orcadian and Orkney View are, in my opinion, only SFN No 8 — copy by 5th December, 1998 Scots pronounced in an Orcadian fashion. Having been brought up "doon sooth" I do not have the Orcadian accent despite the fact SFN No 9 — copy by 6th March, 1999 that I understand the words perfectly well, thanks to my mother. The Omond Memoirs and the Stronsay 3 Members Queries and in 1823 when he had an illegitimate son, George to a Barbara Bernsten. He then Correspondence moved to Shetland where he had another illegitimate child in 1828 and then married • From Margaret Polack (# 16) Elisabeth Scott Adie in 1831. Where was 1 Langley Gardens, Merry Hill, Ninian born ? Wolverhampton. WV3 7JN I am descended from John Shearer (1799) • From Mrs D Davies (# 192) and Margaret Baikie (1805), John is the son 4 Ashcroft House, London Road, Stroud, of John Shearer (1775) and Jane Sinclair. I Gloucestershire. GL5 2AT would like more detailed info on the Shearers (from Holm ). I am looking for any information on my grandfather, John Robertson, and his family. John was a sail maker and moved from • From Dr Wallace G Breck (# 152) Orkney to Liverpool, he was married in 165 Ontario Street, No. 306, Kingston, 1887. John was in Liverpool inl891, his Ontario, CANADA. K7L 2Y6 father was Robert Robertson - also a mariner. I am interested in any information on: The origins of Brecks in Birsay. • From John Wylie (# 197) The White House of Breck at Rendall. 8 Relugas Place, Edinburgh. EH9 2PN Sir James Sinclair of Breck at Grimness. Trying to find descendants of siblings of William Wylie, born 1885 St Marys, Holm : • From Mr Robert Flaws (# 154) John Gilbert Moss Wylie 1888 - 1935, 1775 linden Avenue, Boulder, Colorado, U Samuel Wylie 1891 - 1916, James Sabiston S A, 80304. <[email protected]> Wylie 1898 - 1964 and Jessie Smith 1894 - Does anyone have any info on Mary Arnott who is supposed to have married Robert • From Agnes Scharvi (# 212) Flaws in South Ronaldsay 2/7/1756. 69 Great South Road, Manurewa 1702, New Zealand • From Stuart Christie (# 166) Henry Willitts (1831) and his family came to 11 Osprey Drive, Toms River, New Jersey, U Orkney between 1863 and 1870, they where 5 A 08753 in Shapinsay in 1891.
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