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From: "Marjorie Bundy" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re: ABERDEEN-D Digest V01 #110
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:34:41 +1000
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Dear Dorothy.
I obviously should have replied to your email,which I missed somehow! is the
following of any use to you.?
Feb25 1762
Mr James Taylor, preacher of the Gospel and Schoolmaster at Deer
had-a-Daughter-brought-forth-by-his-wife- Helen Mackie baptised &-called-
Jean before witnesses Alex Dingwall son to William Dingwall of Culsh and
James Greig Indweller in Deer. Name Mothers ( sic) being Jean Rosse mother
of the said Helen Mackie and Jean Fordyce Lady Culsh.
(I bet their hats were something spectacular too.)
This is from Ellon parish records.
I also have seen the Clergy Meeting minutes of the Free church of Savoch,
but unfortunately, realising eventually that there was no connection there
for us, I have either wiped them or mislaid a hard copy. They were circa
1843 and make mention of a Dingwall Fordyce who was their patron and
"brother" in the church sense, dying suddenly of a heart attack whilst in
Aberdeen, and acknowledging his brother who was his heir, by extending their
sympathies. One of them but I don't remember which was Arthur Dingwall
Fordyce. I believe he had no children.
A 4g uncle of mine,Peter Mitchel, an oatmeal miller, born 1810 named one of
his children William Dingwall Fordyce Mitchel,in 1849. Presumably he worked
on the estate at the time, possibly at a mill in Oldwhat.
On the valuation roll for the Parish of New Deer, circa 1870 William
Dingwall Fordyce esq., is living at Bruckley Castle.
I think the place you mention would be BROOMHILL as that is part of the
Lands of Fedderat, which lands appear to adjoin the Lands of Bruckley
(guesswork here)
As far as the name blaikie goes, it would appear such was a well-known name
of the time, and my ancestor's grandson mis-associated with his great
grandmother.
Regards
Marjorie Bundy



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Subject: [ABERDEEN] Re: ABERDEEN-D Digest V01 #110


> DINGWALL/BLAIKIE
>
> Dear Marjorie,
>
> The Dingwalls in whom I am interested certainly came from New Deer,
Arthur
> Dingwall of Brownhills (or was it Broomhill?) married a Lucretia Irvine,
said
> to have been co-heiress of Brucklay.
>
> The Blaikies spent about a century in Aberdeen from late 18th. to late
19th.
> when the family business went bankrupt and some of the family migrated to
> Natal near Pietremaritzburg in time to build a farm and take part in the
> Battle of Isandlhwana. According to my info, however, they originated
from
> near Perth where David Blaikie, "the tallest man in the Prince's army",
was
> resettled after Culloden under the protection of the Earl of Perth. John
> Blaikie and his wife Helen Richardson moved to Aberdeen later in the
century.
>
> Dorothy Francis
>
>
>
>
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