Aberdeenshire Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/category/places/scotland/aberdeenshire/ Genealogy, genealogy, genealogy. Fri, 15 May 2026 09:55:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://geneageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-geneageekicon-150x150.png Aberdeenshire Archives - Geneageek https://geneageek.com/category/places/scotland/aberdeenshire/ 32 32 Further Pedigree Collapse https://geneageek.com/further-pedigree-collapse/ https://geneageek.com/further-pedigree-collapse/#respond Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:28:52 +0000 https://geneageek.com/?p=3714 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/further-pedigree-collapse/feed/ 0 Drowned Near the Boat Shore https://geneageek.com/drowned-near-the-boat-shore/ https://geneageek.com/drowned-near-the-boat-shore/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:09 +0000 https://geneageek.com/?p=3679 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/drowned-near-the-boat-shore/feed/ 0 Five Men Drowned – Connections https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-connections/ https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-connections/#respond Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:02:55 +0000 http://geneageek.com/?p=2870 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-connections/feed/ 0 Five Men Drowned – One Survivor https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-one-survivor/ https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-one-survivor/#comments Tue, 31 May 2022 16:46:16 +0000 http://geneageek.com/?p=2848 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-three-buried-at-sea/feed/ 0 Five Men Drowned – Two Recovered https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-two-recovered/ https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-two-recovered/#respond Tue, 29 Mar 2022 10:56:19 +0000 http://geneageek.com/?p=2803 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned-two-recovered/feed/ 0 Five Men Drowned https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned/ https://geneageek.com/five-men-drowned/#respond Thu, 03 Mar 2022 11:49:28 +0000 http://geneageek.com/?p=2782 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/the-will-of-james-findlay/feed/ 3 Cairnglass https://geneageek.com/cairnglass/ https://geneageek.com/cairnglass/#respond Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:49:48 +0000 http://geneageek.uk/blog/?p=1317 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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]]> https://geneageek.com/cairnglass/feed/ 0 Lunatic in the Family – Case Notes https://geneageek.com/lunatic-in-the-family-case-notes/ https://geneageek.com/lunatic-in-the-family-case-notes/#respond Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:51:00 +0000 https://geneageek.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/lunatic-in-the-family-case-notes/ I received my case notes from the archives yesterday which made for very interesting reading: This is a case of senile insanity and patient is stated to have been more…

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