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Forbes of Brechin 02
It’s the mid 1700s; Brechin served as the market town for much of the district, the 30 mile radius in which our ancestors lived. It’s an urban center for the region with people living in houses, apartments, rooms, and institutions. Farmers work and cultivate all around the city. There were also a number of “great houses” that required staff.
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Forbes of Brechin 01
Synopsis of Parts One & Two: The Forbes of Brechin arrived on the record in the 1600’s, but possibly as early as the 1400’s by historical account. Daniel Forbes, the first ancestor of record in this line, married into a family with land, the Langsandie family. He had eight children. His son Alexander, Sr. had two wives and four children in Brechin. His first and only son, Alexander, Jr. had only one child, a boy named in John (1733), named after his grandfather. He was the first in three generations to be born away from Brechin proper,
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The Remeli/Remaley family arrives in 1753
They were refugees escaping brutal Catholic persecution of Protestants in Germany and relying on the decades’ old promise from William Penn of safety and prosperity in “The New World”. This had been a predominantly Protestant area since the Reformation took hold there in 1556. Read the whole story
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OFF THE RAILS; a short detour
Discovering family stories: A shipwreck and drowning off Port of Aberdeen Scotland in 1853 and 1880.
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FINDING YOUR WAY; Narrowing the focus of ancestry research
It’s easy to get lost in the maze of your ancestry tree. Try these tips to narrow your family history research to direct blood relatives.
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