Published: 31 March, 2010
WE are visiting Orkney in September for a holiday and are hoping that your readers may be able to help us.
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Published: 08 March, 2010
MY g-g-grandmother Elizabeth Campbell emigrated to Australia on the Hornet in 1854 with her brother Robert and possibly a cousin Janet McLeod.
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Published: 17 February, 2010
I AM looking for ancestors and relations of my great great grandfather David Ross (22 Dec 1826 - 16 Apr 1906) and Isabella Morrison who lived at "Quatre Bras", Lybster.
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Published: 13 January, 2010
I AM seeking relatives in the Caithness area. My grandparents were John and Elizabeth Campbell.
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Published: 25 November, 2009
I AM currently researching my family tree from Australia and require some help.
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Published: 18 November, 2009
I AM seeking information on Thomas Gallion (1810) and Jane Reed (1815) and their son and other family members from John O'Groats.
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Published: 26 October, 2009
I AM looking for information on my great grandfather John Miller; died on July 13th, 1935.
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Published: 23 October, 2009
I AM trying to trace Heather West (nee McRobbie), daughter of Robert McRobbie, of Thurso.
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Published: 19 August, 2009
I AM looking for information on Colin Duncan McColin, a resident of Thurso, passed away possibly between 1990 and 1994. He was in his 90's.
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Published: 14 August, 2009
MAY I appeal to readers who have information relating to my late grandfather, John Sutherland, of Buldoo, Latheron?
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Published: 18 June, 2009
I AM trying to trace my cousin William Coghill Sutherland, born about 1910 in Keiss.
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Published: 31 March, 2009
I AM looking for my husband's 2nd cousin, Sheila Doull Leask, born in Wick in 1943.
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Published: 23 March, 2009
I AM seeking information on Ann Black, who I went to school with.
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Published: 04 March, 2009
I AM looking for any information on the Low/e family of Latheron.
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Published: 17 February, 2009
I AM researching my husband's gg grandmother, Catherine Ross, who was born about 1837 in Croick, to parents David Ross and Christian Ross.
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Published: 16 February, 2009
I AM trying to get information on my great grandfather, Murdoch McLeod. He lived at Vanishart Street, Pulteneytown, circa 1886 and worked for one of the local newspapers as a Syntax compositor foreman.
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Published: 02 February, 2009
I HAVE embarked on a search to find information about my mother's older brother James Sinclair.
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Published: 07 January, 2009
I AM looking for any relatives of Andrew M(ac)Leod born around 1884. I know he had at least three brothers who in 1929 all lived in Wick.
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Published: 19 December, 2008
WHILE doing National Service I met William Sutherland. We had been posted to Torfrek Barracks, Hildeshiem, near Hanover, Germany.
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Published: 05 December, 2008
DOES anyone remember Catherine Brisbane McGuffie who died in Thurso in 1983 aged 86?
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Published: 05 December, 2008
I AM researching my local war memorial and trying to find out information on all the servicemen named on it.
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Published: 03 November, 2008
I WOULD love to make contact with descendants of Barbara Robertson (b. 1790) and her first husband, name unknown. By 1822, he had evidently died and she married David Harper and had six more children.
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Published: 10 October, 2008
I AM looking for info on the Caithness side to my family. I have some information on there but I'm now at a standstill and I wonder if anyone can help or if there are still some family members up there. I'd love to know if there are any references to them anywhere too.
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Published: 08 October, 2008
THROUGH the John O'Groat Journal, I hope to reach relatives of my grandparents, Donald Gunn and Catherine McLeod (nee Sutherland), late of 44 Henrietta Street, Wick.
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Published: 01 October, 2008
DAVID Harper and Barbara Robertson were married on 21 December 1822 in Wick and together had children Margaret, John, William, David, Catherine and Alexander.
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Published: 12 September, 2008
I AM endeavouring to trace the descendants of John MacDonald and Margaret Sutherland who came to live in Wick about 1870.
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Published: 10 September, 2008
I AM looking for an old girlfriend, Barbara MacAllister, a nurse-midwife who grew up in Thurso in the 1980s.
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Published: 20 August, 2008
I AM trying to find the birthplace of my great x2 grandfather William Richard Patterson, born 1799. He lived in the Highlands of Scotland until about 1818 - 1820.
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Published: 12 August, 2008
I AM desperately seeking my birth mother. I am 47 years old, born Bruce Alan (Allen?) in Richmond, Virginia, USA, in 1961. I have never had contact past adoption.
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Published: 11 August, 2008
MY grandfather Captain William Wilson was found dead on the rocks at Skirza Head, Freswick, Canisby, Caithness on or about the 27th Feb 1941.
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Published: 11 July, 2008
CAN anybody help? My girlfriend, Sharon Proctor, last heard of her sister in 1999 in John O’Groats. Her name is Sally Wendkay Proctor aged 36-38 years, dob 27-02-1970-72.
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Published: 11 July, 2008
SIR – My name is Jean Stewart and I am researching the family tree of John Stewart, of Wick, who emigrated to Canada in 1821 with his son James.
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Published: 04 July, 2008
I AM currently undertaking some family history research and am looking for descendants of James Bain Grant, tinsmith, Wick (1851-1909).
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Published: 18 June, 2008
I AM looking for information and photographs of Edward Eyres Courtney Hossack and Marjorie Anderson.
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Published: 16 May, 2008
I AM tying to trace my father-in-law’s ancestors. I am looking for the children of John Miller and Elizabeth Falconer John died in 1911.
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Published: 07 May, 2008
I AM seeking information on my ancestors from Wick. I believe they were boat builders and fishermen by trade.
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Published: 23 April, 2008
I WAS born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and now reside in Alberta. I am trying to trace my Scottish ancestry but I do not have a lot to go on and hope someone still living in the area may recognise a name.
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Published: 08 April, 2008
I AM looking for a death notice for Catherine Manson (nee Manson) who died March 11, 1870, at Campbell Street, Thurso, aged 70 or 71 years.
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Published: 31 March, 2008
MY father was born in Wick and I am keen to ascertain if he has any relatives still living in the area.
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Published: 17 March, 2008
I STUMBLED upon your website today after entering my grandmother’s name into Google web search. It showed a letter written by my cousin in New Zealand, hoping to find descendants of our grandmother.
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Published: 18 February, 2008
I AM looking for any links to Alexander Miller and James Begg Bruce from the Wick/Caithness area.
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Published: 12 February, 2008
CAN anyone please help with any details of David Kennedy Lees who worked as a wireless/radio operator at Wick Radio Station around 1945/46.
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Published: 11 February, 2008
I AM looking for descendants of my grandfather's siblings who were born and lived in Wick for most of their lives.
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Published: 21 January, 2008
I AM searching for an old friend from the Marines called Rik Omand. I can't remember if he lived in Caithness or Thurso.
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Published: 04 January, 2008
MY great-grandfather, John Meiklejohn, was born in Wick in 1834 to George Meiklejohn and Elizabeth (Bremner), farmers, of Bilbster.
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Published: 23 November, 2007
I AM trying to add some background information to my hubby's grandad's business, Alexander Pate & Co., who was a Coal Merchant and Shipbroker in Wick around the mid 1930's to around 1950.
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Published: 12 November, 2007
I AM trying to trace who my grandfather’s parents were. His name was Henry Charles Buck, originally from Wick, born in 1912.
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Published: 24 September, 2007
I AM seeking more information on Hugh and Janet Campbell - nee McLeod.
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Published: 04 September, 2007
I AM involved in a little project to research the links of The Beatles to Scotland.
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Published: 04 September, 2007
I WAS brought up in Caithness but now live in the north west of England.
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Published: 24 August, 2007
I AM trying to trace my Great Great Grandfather's family who might be living in Wick.
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Published: 31 July, 2007
Hello my name is Kristina Kitchingman. I am of the Groat family... in Australia.
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Published: 01 June, 2007
MY grandmother's ancestors came from Thurso in the early 1800s, and I'm coming there on June 15 to learn what I can about our family.
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Published: 31 May, 2007
I AM trying to find any information about the Mulraine family of Wick.
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Published: 14 May, 2007
MY grandfather was David Miller (born Whaligoe, Caithness, Wick on 14 May, 1869). His father was John Miller (fisherman/crofter and his mother was Janet Miller).
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Published: 08 May, 2007
WALTER Williams was a Butler at Castle of Mey. He was born 1886 in Upton, Malvern, Worcestershire. His brother, Tom Williams, was born in 1895 in Harborne, Birmingham. He was a groom and/or Footman at the castle too.
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Published: 23 April, 2007
I AM trying to locate where Oust is in Scotland, which church is there, and the birthdates of all the children of Adam Innes of Oust.
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Published: 23 March, 2007
I WOULD like to find out what happened to an old friend from whom I haven't heard since the 1960s.
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Published: 06 March, 2007
MY grandmother was Helen Nicolson Manson, b.9/12/1878, Wester, Wick. Her parents were Alexander Manson & Annie Cormack who farmed at Myreland Horne.
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Published: 05 March, 2007
A FEW years ago I used to live in Caithness and made a good friend in a Mr Brian Whitelaw. Unfortunately we lost touch when I moved back to the Midlands.
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Published: 23 February, 2007
As well as celebrating the Scouts' 100th birthday this year, 2nd Thurso Scout Group is also celebrating its own 50th anniversary in June.
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Published: 15 January, 2007
MY name is Mary Wilkinson and my daughter is engaged in doing our family tree. I am researching the Wilkinson side.
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Published: 06 December, 2006
MY ggg-grandfather was William HENDERSON who was living in Wester Deall (spelling from marriage record) when he married Isobell JACK from Gerstane. She was born on 20 Mar 1768 and was the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (SELKIRK) JACK.
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Published: 01 December, 2006
I AM a descendant of the Swanson/Simpson families who lived in the following areas of Caithness: Olrig, Canisbay, Thurso, Dunnet, Murkle and Bower. On looking at a map of Scotland, I can see that these places are in close proximity to each other.
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Published: 01 December, 2006
I AM currently writing up the history of Viewfirth from its construction as a private house in the 1870s through to its closure in 2006.
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