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Eleanor M Harris: November 2014
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Eleanor m harris : colour : words : history : story : nature : literature : calligraphy : life. Sunday, 30 November 2014. My identity has always come from what I create rather than what I consume, so for me the especial delight of Christmas has always been not so much getting loot. I told you it was all about singing. How far is it to Bethlehem? I heard the bells. In the bleak midwinter. And I sing the birth. Card in the style of a Hergé cartoon. It's one of my favourite designs of all. Th...Of this sele...
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Registers of Charlotte Chapel (National Archives of Scotland CH12/3). Old Parish Registers, Scottish Family History Centre. If you are citing this material please reference it as follows: "Alexander Anderson" in Eleanor Harris, The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel Website. Online, archive.stjohns- edinburgh.org.uk, 2011). Eleanor Harris 2011 eleanormharris.co.uk.
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Elizabeth (Betty) Balfour (Mrs Wardlaw). 1745 - 25 September 1815. Robert Balfour of Balbirnie. Ann Ramsay of Whitehill. Ann was daughter of Andrew Ramsay, baronet of Whitehill, and through her Robert Wardlaw Ramsay. Inherited Whitehill and the name Ramsay. After her death her furniture was described for its auction:. William Wardlaw, captain in the Royal Navy. Registers of Charlotte Chapel (NAS CH12/3). Online, archive.stjohns- edinburgh.org.uk, 2011). Eleanor Harris 2011 eleanormharris.co.uk.
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Jane Anderson (married name). Catherine (1810), Harriet (1817), Susanna (1822). Registers of Charlotte Chapel (NAS CH12/3). If you are citing this material please reference it as follows: "Jane Anderson" in Eleanor Harris, The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel Website. Online, archive.stjohns- edinburgh.org.uk, 2011). Eleanor Harris 2011 eleanormharris.co.uk.
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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George was brought up in bleak poverty in the Episcopalian heartlands of northeast Scotland. He carried the Episcopalianism with him around the world, but was determined to leave the poverty behind. He succeeded in business where his father had failed, and the pleasure of watching his family grow in a comfortable English country house appears to be one which he never took for granted. When in Edinburgh he stayed at his mother's, 47 Queen Street. When Eliza died he wrote, 'I have lost more than half of my...
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Williamina's father was the last of a line of important farmers in the same village where Susan Beckford. S father was the great lord. She came all the way from Wiltshire to marry a widower from Aberdeen, perhaps through a Whig party connection, since Susan's husband Alexander Hamilton. Employed a namesake of Williamina's husband David, Alexander Young. Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire. S father William Beckford in 1796. (4). 1816 (wedding, in Hermitage Place, Stockbridge). Helen was his second wife. Some Sele...
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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William was brought up in poverty in north-east Scotland, but whereas his brother George. Robert Arbuthnot, businessman whose firm failed the year George was born, in an epidemic of bank failures. (4 p.331). He has an unusually pious preamble to his will: 'I most humbly recommend my soul to the mercy of Almighty God the first great author of my being, earnestly imploring his forgiveness of the manifold transgressions of which I have been guilty in the course of my life.'. And the last part of it at the G...
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Most Aitkins came from the Scottish lowlands. Nancy (1817). In 1841 a Nancy Crawford aged 20 was a servant at 2 Grove Street, Musselburgh, in the house of Robert Aitken (age 45), leather factor. Registers of Charlotte Chapel (National Archives of Scotland CH12/3). 1841 Census, Scottish Family History Centre. If you are citing this material please reference it as follows: "Anne Aitkin" in Eleanor Harris, The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel Website.
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The Episcopal Congregation of Charlotte Chapel, 1792-1818
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Thomas was a navy captain who, after travelling the globe in his youth, appears to have retired from active service after his marriage to raise a family in Edinburgh. Like Daniel Sandford. His family had held lands in Shropshire for many centuries, and he was also related via an Irish connection to the Duffs, one of the historically Scottish Episcopalian families of Charlotte Chapel. 9 October 1772 - 19 October 1857 (7 gave this as 1875 but other sources suggest this was a typing error). Edinburgh Post O...
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