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31 July, 2010
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STRATHY ROOTS » Seeking The Past
Published:  03 May, 2010

MY great-grandfather was Robert Munro, born Kirkmichael, 1832. He was married to Margaret McPherson (lived at Lagganvoullin farm) in 1859.

Published:  24 February, 2010

I AM writing about Frances Coutts Hendry (FCH), a resident of Grantown from 1923 until his death in his 80th year in 1955.

Published:  02 December, 2009

I AM trying to find out more about Isabella Mackay of Kingussie and George Macdonald, who was born in Kingussie and recorded as the illegitimate son of Alexander Macdonald a farmer, of Dolchraig, Stratherne, Perthshire.

Published:  14 October, 2009

WE would love to find out more information about the Cattanach family in Newtonmore.

Published:  20 April, 2009

I AM looking for anyone with connections to my husband's family of McDonalds and McBeans.

Published:  09 March, 2009

I AM searching for any information on the Campbells, who lived in Sillyearn School House, Grange, Banffshire in 1953.

Published:  09 February, 2009

I AM looking for any information on the family of my great great grandparents, William (about 1799 - 1879) and Elspeth Grant, who lived at Cherry Grove beside the Old Spey Bridge.

Published:  09 February, 2009

I AM looking for anyone who is related to the Grant family who we think came from the Strathspey area and down to the County March.

Published:  21 January, 2009

I AM looking for ancestors of Joseph Martin McPherson, aka Martin McPherson, possibly MacPherson.

Published:  12 November, 2008

I AM trying to find information about my grandfather's family who lived in or around Grantown in the 1800s.

Published:  28 October, 2008

I AM looking for anyone who is related or interested in the history of the Grant family branch who originated in the Strathspey area and was involved in the Canadian Fur Trade.

Published:  17 October, 2008

I HAVE been searching for information on my great great grandfather Daniel McKenzie who was born in or near Grantown on November 28, 1823.

Published:  29 September, 2008

AN old family story, passed down for 350 years says that, the first Tosh in our family, in North America, was captured at Dudley in 1651, by Cromwell's troops, after being wounded by an arrow, to the right shoulder.

Published:  22 September, 2008

I AM seeking living relatives descended from Robert Macleod, b.1776 in Sutherland, crofter/farmer and Fanny Liddle (Francis Leighton) b.1781 in Ireland.

Published:  09 July, 2008

IN May my brother, Geoffrey, and I visited Scotland in an attempt to find out more about our ancestors in Kingussie.

Published:  09 April, 2008

MY name is Morag McIntosh (née Bamberry) and I moved to Kingussie in the summer of 1979 as my dad, Larry, worked as a signal man in the local station.

Published:  03 October, 2007

ONE of my neighbours, knowing I had worked on the railway and wrote books on steam trains amongst other things, rather diffidently asked me if I could solve a family mystery for her.

Published:  22 August, 2007

I AM compiling a pictorial and historical record of local Territorials who served in the Great War with the 6th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Morayshire).

Published:  01 August, 2007

DURING the centenary week of the Scout movement it is a happy coincidence that evidence for Grantown's having had one of the earliest Scout troops in the North of Scotland has just turned up in the columns of this newspaper during its centenary year as the "Strathspey Herald".

Published:  05 July, 2007

I AM searching for a gentleman who was born Bruce Sharp Donald on the 14th April, 1937 in Crieff and later moved to Tomintoul.

Published:  06 June, 2007

From 1923 Frances Coutts Hendry OBE, MC, lived in Grantown-on-Spey at Woodside Avenue and is buried at the New Cemetery.

Published:  16 May, 2007

KINGUSSIE Guides were started in 1921 but on April 27, 1927, Lieutenant Doris Milliken presented a Union flag bearing the Guide Trefoil to the unit.

Published:  21 February, 2007

I AM preparing a dissertation on the history of Achnarrow Public School (1877-1959), where my mother taught for five years in the early 1950s.

Published:  05 February, 2007

I AM seeking information about my late father, who I believe was born in Kingussie in 1900. He moved to Nairn as a small child.

Published:  03 January, 2007

DO you remember old Aviemore of the 60s/70s/80s? “The Centre”, Santa Claus Land, the Strathspey, Badenoch, Post House and Freedom-Inn hotels?

Published:  13 September, 2006

DO you have memories of Christmas celebrations in the village of Aviemore during the 1950s and 1960s?

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