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Further Pedigree Collapse

geneageek — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:28:52 +0000

I previously posted about ‘cousin marriage’ and ‘pedigree collapse’ in my tree here. I had wondered what effect two less ancestors would have on the ancestor count in my family…

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Drowned Near the Boat Shore

geneageek — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:09 +0000

On 26 October 1859, cousins Andrew Buchan (23) and Robert Buchan (17), drowned when their boat was overturned by a strong wind in deep water (Robert was incorrectly named Arthur…

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Pedigree Collapse

geneageek — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 21:28:34 +0000

Cousin marriage is given the side eye these days but it was a relatively common thing for our ancestors. It seemed to happen a lot with the Wrefords in Devon,…

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Five Men Drowned – Connections

geneageek — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:02:55 +0000

PLEASE NOTE: The charts shown on this post have an error. The father of Elisabeth Buchan (b1874) was not a granddaughter of John (Park’s Jockie) Buchan (b1792). Please see the…

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Five Men Drowned – One Survivor

geneageek — Tue, 31 May 2022 16:46:16 +0000

Continued from previous post: Five Men Drowned – Three Buried At Sea One Survivor Of the six men who were aboard when a heavy wave swamped a fishing boat on…

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Five Men Drowned – Two Recovered

geneageek — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:56:19 +0000

Continued from previous post Five Men Drowned Two of the bodies were also picked up by the boat, but both were quite dead. Dundee Courier, 12 February 1872, p2, c6…

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Five Men Drowned

geneageek — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:49:28 +0000

At about 4 o’clock on a winter’s afternoon, off the north east coast of Scotland, a fishing boat was swamped by a heavy wave while returning home from a day’s work.…

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Grave Matters

geneageek — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:54:59 +0000

In Port Chalmers Cemetery, there is a headstone for married couple, Alexander Ritchie Buchan & Agnes Buchan (nee Findlay) – but only one of them was actually buried in that…

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Cairnglass

geneageek — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:49:48 +0000

While trawling through the parish registers of St Combs, I came across a record for a Charles Gordon BUCHAN. It was quite rare to come across a middle name in…

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Girls, girls, girls

geneageek — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:58:54 +0000

Recently, I rediscovered a photo of my grandmother and her classmates in 1938, hidden in one of my family history books. On the reverse, in my grandmother’s scrawl, are…

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