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125 Members Join in the First Three Months Sib Folk News The Newsletter for Orcadian Familv Historians May 1997 125 members Inside join in the Page 2 Editorial Gavin Rendall first three 3 From your Chairman Nan Scott 3 Correspondence months 4 What's in a name? Robert Marwick It is important that our membership 5 Omond’s grows quickly in the first year for a Orkney Characters Ray Fereday number of reasons. Firstly, the Society needs to be financially viable. We do not 10 A walk around the wish to borrow money or be debtors to Kirkwall Archives Betty Tulloch anyone for the production of our litera- 11 Useful Contacts ture, publicity and essential equipment. With the very real possibility of acquiring a 11 Members' Queries room and facilities in the same building as 12 Calling the Orkney Tourist Board and adjacent to Stronsay Readers Eddie Sinclair St Magnus Cathedral, it is very important to 13 Computers be solvent. in Family History Eddie Sinclair Secondly, the Society benefits from a 14 Harray Notebook Janice Sinclair large membership. The more members 15 Ancestor Hunting Jarl Sigurd there are, the more scope there is for sharing research and knowledge. The message to all members is clear — go and encourage — yes, persuade — friends to join the Orkney Family History Society! Sib Folk News Editorial The Newsletter of the Orkney Family History Society [ wondered for a while whether there would be sufficient material for this issue of Sib Folk Honorary President: Brigadier S. P. Robertson News. However, as you can see, my fears were unfounded. Periodic newsletters eat up material Committee and members must keep sending in articles, news, details of research work, queries and cor- Chairperson: Mrs Nan Scott, respondence. As time goes by, the Society will Leckmelm, Annfield Crescent, carry out research and the results can be reported Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 INS in Sib Folk News. Until'then the newsletter depends largely on members' support. I believe Treasurer: Mr George Gray, that the newsletter should contain a healthy Fulmar, East Road, balance of articles ranging from highly Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1LX professional researched material to simple stories of Orkney folk. Something for every General Mrs Helen Angus, taste should be the order of the day. Why not Secretary: Kaimes, 26, Royal Oak Road, put pen to paper and send in a contribution for Kirkwall, Orkney, KW 15 1RF Sib Folk News 3? Membership Mr Frank Eunson, At the time of writing and just before publica- Secretary: Furrigarth, Downie's Lane, tion, the membership secretary tells me that Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3EP membership has grown to 125. Good going! Research Margaret Crisp, The committee are still considering a LOGO for Secretary: 16, Meadowbank, the Society and a map of Orkney with the Kirkwall, Orkney, KW Society's name seems to be favoured. So it looks as if we shall follow in Shetland's foot- Newsletter Mr Gavin Rendall, steps — they have the same sort of thing. Editor: 55, Plough Lane, Purley, Surrey, CR83QL Westray will be in the news this summer. They are opening their Heritage Centre. I believe that Members: Mr Steve Bichan, they are putting on an exhibition, part of which Downess, Deerness, Orkney concerns the history of schools in Westray. Why not make a trip to Westray this summer Mrs Norma Craigie, and visit the Centre. Heritage and genealogy 16 Quoybanks Crescent, have a lot in common. Mrs Harcus-Scott, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1EW YRABR, 9 Gill Pier, Westray, is the chairperson. Hazel Gore, Midhouse, Dates for your diary. Holm, Orkney, KW Thursday 8th May in the Commodore Hotel, Mr Eddie Sinclair, Mr W P L Thomson, former Headmaster of 34, Wellington Street, Kirkwall Grammar School will give a talk at the Kirkwall, Orkney, KWI5 1AY monthly meeting of the OFHS. Mrs Janice Sinclair, Sunday 29th June, a visit to Rousay as guests of Nisthouse, Harray, Rousay members. (Date to be confirmed) Orkney, KW 17 2LD 22nd July in the Town Hall, a joint meeting Mrs Betty Tulloch, with the Gunn Clan. 90 members of the clan are 16, Buttquoy Crescent, visiting Orkney in July. Kirkwall, Orkney, KWI5 IJH 2 From the Chair Correspondence Greetings to all 'Sib Folk News' readers. A number of members have written expressing Our first magazine went out to over 100 pleasure at receiving their first copy of Sib members. The number of people joining the Folk News. OFHS so quickly has really encouraged the committee. Carol Johnston sends her congratulations on the successful start to the OFHS. She also The inaugural meeting was well attended with enclosed a profile of her great grandfather about 70 people present. Questionnaires were James Nicholson. He was born in Shapinsay in handed out at the door of the KGS hall. The 1838 and moved to Leith in 1861 where he final question asked for comments, suggestions became very involved in the community around or ideas. The shortest answer was "Had gaan"** him and made a name for himself. If any and the longest "I need 100 pages of foolscap" I readers would like to follow up this story I shall be think both were giving us the green light. pleased to send them a copy of Carol's profile of her g-grandfather. I shall send a copy to the As chairperson on the night 1 made a faux pas in OFHS office for filing and reference in due course. omitting a formal vote of thanks. If I may remedy that now, I'd like to say that we were Michael Clouston, formerly of Stromness very grateful to Gavin Rendall for coming from Academy, now living in Ramsgate, Kent, sends London by bus specially to be our speaker and his congratulations on getting The OFHS off the also for all that he has done to get us going. It ground. He is an amateur computer boffin and turned out that he had shelved plans to go to has offered to help transfer census returns to a Australia and New Zealand in order to make it database. When the committee has drawn up to the inaugural meeting. We are grateful to members' interests and has decided which Brigadier S.P. Robertson for agreeing to be census returns need to be worked on, we shall Hon. President of the OFHS and proposing that be very pleased to take up Michael's offer. the steering committee be the committee of the Society. Since then he has appointed himself to Daniel Swann, from Metheringham, be recruiting officer! A lot of thanks are due to Lincolnshire ( we are spread around the the steering committee for their hard work and country) likes the first edition of Sib Folk enthusiasm. We are grateful too to a founder News and its format. Thank you Daniel, we member, Jimic Scott, who has done a lot of are sticking with the format but are dropping the photocopying for us. scribe's margin as it is a very inefficient use of space. At the end of the meeting Catherine Cardno, her mother, Mags Rendall and Betty Tulloch provided Peter Groundwater Russell, the author of the a lovely cup of tea. To them and to Violet article entitled Letter from America in Sib Drever from Westray, who sent in some deli- Folk News No 1, wrote pointing out an error. cious fatty cutties, we give our grateful thanks. As a result of a computer mini crash, part of the We would like to thank those who made special letter became garbled. The second full para- trips to be at the meeting that night. The society graph on page 18 should read as follows: aims to keep in touch with all the islands and parishes in Orkney. There were representatives John Flett Loutitt, senior,_never married. His from a wide area at the meeting. Our hope is sister-in-law. Charlotte Boyse (James' wife), that we will all enjoy our society. had promised that the child referred to in the letter (John Flett Louttit 2nd, later known as At the time of writing the paper-work on the "Yankee Jack") would go to live with his uncle lease of an office at 8 Broad Street is at an John when he was old enough. Young John duly advanced stage. Once we are 'in residence' we arrived in Australia around 1885, set up busi- will be looking for volunteers to be there during ness as a carpenter and undertaker, married opening hours. It is hoped that this will be under Marion Mclntosh at Moruya in 1899, and way before the busiest time of the tourist remained there for the rest of his life. season. Nan Scott. The typographical errors and words omitted are underlined above. Further down the page the word 'gallent' should of course be spelt ** "Had gaan" is an Orcadian expression for 'gallant "gel on with it" or "carry on". 3 to us from the fjord steamer appeared to be a What's in a name? rocky, barren and inhospitable place. I recall thinking that if my ancestors had hailed from By Robert C Marwick that area it was little wonder that they left it. Norsemen had set out from these parts 1000 When 1 was growing up in Orkney it never years ago and some had settled in Orkney. occurred to me that I carried an unusual surname. Maybe they had brought the name to Orkney, Marwick is a very common name in Orkney and particularly to the small district of Marwick in every Orcadian knows how to spell it. That is not the parish of Birsay. Dr. Hugh Marwick in his the case outwith Orkney and when I am asked for Place-names of Birsay states that there is some my name I usually have to spell it for anyone who doubt about the origin of the mar part of the has to write it down.
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