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From: "Sheena" <>
Subject: Re: [SCT-BER] Suicide - newspaper report??
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:29:06 -0000
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oops
I should have given you the Scottish Archives
not the English though that one though that
might help you with other questions.
www.scan.org.uk/index.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheena" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [SCT-BER] Suicide - newspaper report??


> Valerie,
> It is a long shot,
> Please let me know the surname you are looking for and I will try
> http://archive.scotsman.com
> You also may have some luck looking at
> www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
> Sheena nee Grahame
> frae Bonnie Dundee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valerie/Rowan Henshaw" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:04 PM
> Subject: [SCT-BER] Suicide - newspaper report??
>
>
>> After researching my family history for some thirty years, I decided to
>> tie up some loose ends and retrieve missing certificates which had been
>> previously deemed unnecessary. I knew my gt-grandfather had died young;
>> my granny had no knowledge of him at all. However, his death certificate
>> knocked my socks off as it turns out he committed suicide (by cutting his
>> throat!) at the age of 20 and after only 10 months of marriage (was my
>> gt-grandmother that much of a termagant?). He died December 1st 1886 at
>> Cowdenknows Mains, Earlston. He was a shepherd but I don't know if he was
>> employed on the estate or just visiting. His father, an ag. lab., was the
>> informant. Does anyone on the List have any ideas about how/where I could
>> obtain further information? A report would surely have gone to the
>> Procurator Fiscal - he signed the death certificate - but how does one
>> retrieve that? And would there be anything reported in a newspaper or
>> would his status be too lowly or the place too remote!
>> ? Would there be estate papers?
>>
>> All help gratefully received,
>>
>> Valerie in Melbourne
>>
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