Scotland trip – May 2017 – day 8 – and the big family gathering

I’m aiming to write and post a little bit each day about the family history research I’m doing, and what I find, during a week staying​ in Edinburgh. But for personal privacy, the posting of these travels on AFamilyHistoryBlog will be delayed by a few days, and will not necessarily be in day by day order! Some of these posts may be given later tweaks, with added photos, etc.

(Note; Sorry! This post was drafted at the time, but was not properly scheduled for posting like the previous posts. And when I got home I got busy catching up with many other things. So this slipped! Hence the big delay in posting!)

Update; You can now see all the posts from my May 2017 Scotland trip, here;
Day 1 – day 2 – day 3 – day 4 – day 5 – day 6 – day 7 – & day 8 & the big family gathering.

I had a final half day in Edinburgh, so I went back to the National Archives of Scotland, at the General Register House. Security had been visibly stepped up since my previous visit to the archives, due to the terrorist attack in Manchester. So there were now bag checks at the front entrance of the General Register House.

General Register House, from North Bridge, Edinburgh.

I spent a couple of hours in the search room using the archive’s “virtual vault”. It took a while just to work out the system. Then I used the virtual vault to look up old maps of the Carlowrie estate, at Kirkliston, West Lothian; which includes Puncheonlaw, where the WALKER family are first recorded to have lived. I did my best to draw my own copy of the plan.

At lunchtime I was picked up from the flat where I had been staying, by an uncle and aunt who had been staying in Edinburgh for a couple of days, and headed for our big HUTCHISON family gathering in South Ayrshire.

We all had a fun week together. During the week the family group included;

• my gran,
• her 5 children & 4 spouses,
• 8 (out of 10) grandchildren (including me), & 4 (of 6) spouses/partners, and
• 9 (out of 14) of my gran’s Great-grandchildren.

A view of the main house on the site where we were staying, with the hilltops across the valley in the background.

We spent time together around the site (which was nice, and worked well for the group of us that was there, but might have been a squeeze if the whole family had been able to come!), and on trips out around Ayrshire. On the first whole day there, 9 of us (half of the adults there at the time) climbed up the hill (283 meters high) just behind the site. Here we are at the top (I’m behind the camera!).

Some of the family, on top of the hill.

On the last full day of the holiday we had a “Circus” themed party, and I got a fun photo of my gran and all 5 of her children standing together, all dressed up.

The Hutchison family in circus costumes 😉

Scotland trip – May 2017 – day 6

I’m aiming to write and post a little bit each day about the family history research I’m doing, and what I find, during a week staying​ in Edinburgh. But for personal privacy, the posting of these travels on AFamilyHistoryBlog will be delayed by a few days, and will not necessarily be in day by day order! Some of these posts may be given later tweaks, with added photos, etc.

Update; You can now see all the posts from my May 2017 Scotland trip, here;
Day 1 – day 2 – day 3 – day 4 – day 5 – day 6 – day 7 – & day 8 & the big family gathering.

I took the train to Kirkcaldy, in Fife, where I went first into the museum and gallery, next to the railway station. I had a good look round the museum, and then the gallery, where there was a painting on display by my Great-grandfather, Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, of his wife Margery (Walton) and their two sons, Peter and Robert.

I then went into the local and family history room to see what I could find there. The librarian looked out for me a book titled “The Hutchisons of Kirkcaldy; A History of the Family and the Firm”. No author was identified for this text! But it looks likely to me to be by “J. Douglas Hutchison”, who complied the Hutchison family tree that I have a copy of (dated 1987), which traces the family (descendants) of the corn merchant and founder of Hutchisons Mill, Robert Hutchison, and his wife, Mary Oliphant.

After looking through some of this book, I asked the librarian if I could copy some of it, using the camera on my tablet to turn it into a PDF file. But due to copyright principles, I could only copy a small portion of the book! So I focused on the start of the book, which dealt a little with some earlier generations of the Hutchison family, and with Robert Hutchison’s life up to the point of his marriage to Mary Oliphant in 1837. I would be very interested to obtain a copy of the whole document. If anyone can provide me with a copy, or knows where I can get one, then please leave a comment below, or use the Contact Page to get in touch. Thanks.

When I left Kirkcaldy Galleries, I went to have a little look round the town. Looking in the graveyard of Kirkcaldy Old Kirk, I found and gravestones with inscriptions to several members of the OLIPHANT and HUTCHISON families which I took photos of. These inscriptions included Robert HUTCHISON, and his wives; Mary OLIPHANT, and Jessie THOMSON. Another gravestone named Mary OLIPHANT’s Great-grandparents; “Robert OLIPHANT” and “Janet BETT”, “set up by” Mary’s grandfathers; “William and Henry OLIPHANT”.

Scotland trip – May 2017 – day 5

I’m aiming to write and post a little bit each day about the family history research I’m doing, and what I find, during a week staying​ in Edinburgh. But for personal privacy, the posting of these travels on AFamilyHistoryBlog will be delayed by a few days, and will not necessarily be in day by day order! Some of these posts may be given later tweaks, with added photos, etc.

Update; You can now see all the posts from my May 2017 Scotland trip, here;
Day 1 – day 2 – day 3 – day 4 – day 5 – day 6 – day 7 – & day 8 & the big family gathering.

General Register House, from North Bridge, Edinburgh.

National Records of Scotland, General Register House, Edinburgh.

I spent a large part of the day in the National Records of Scotland, Historical Search Room at the General Register House. I arrived before their doors opened at 9am. When I got into​ the search room I was immediately handed 3 of the “Kirkcaldy Burgh Register of Deeds” books that I had requested when I registered​ on Friday.

So I began by looking in the oldest of ​these books, at a record involving “Issobel WYSE”, the wife of “James OLYPHANT”, and her sister, “Janet WYSE” (wife of John [S~~irkar]). The old writing is difficult to interpret, so I got permission to photograph the pages that I was interested in, so that I can work on them from the photos, more carefully, later. James OLIPHANT and Isobel WYSE are the first (oldest) couple that I have in my OLIPHANT / HUTCHISON family tree (my 8x great-grandparents). So this entry in the “Register of Deeds of the Burgh of Kirkcaldy”, adds the names of Isobel’s parents.

I then turned to the latest book of Deeds, containing several entries that I wanted to look at. First was the “Trust Disposition and Settlement by Henry OLYPHANT, in favour of George DOUGAL, and others”.

Next; the “Disposition and Deed of Settlement by Henry OLIPHANT, to His wife”; img; 9868 – 9873, followed immediately by the “Deed of Agreement among (Henry’s) widow & children, and Mutual Discharge”; img; 9867 – 9884 (9885).

There was a lot in all this! More than I can process in a day! So by 1pm, I had had enough of the Kirkcaldy Burgh records! The first book had already confirmed for me the names of Isobel WYSE’s parents (something I think I had a suggestion of from searching the IGI, but this is the first confirmed source!).

So then I turned to some pieces that I wanted to look at, about the BARRON family in West Lothian. I had ordered 2 off-site records to look at; the marriage contract of Janet BARRON and Henry HARDIE, in 1684, then a collection of papers from c.1708, apparently about a dispute between Janet BARRON and one of her sons; Henry HARDIE. I photographed these. There may well be evidence in there to connect them to Elizabeth BARRON (m. William WALKER!)! I then ordered some of the documents about the BARRONs of Preston, and it appears to confirm my suspicion that there is NO link between these two families, proving Hardy Bertram McCall to have been wrong about this.

By 2:30pm I had had enough, so wrapped up what I was doing, handed back the documents I had out, and left the Register House to find some lunch in the nearby Waverley Mall.

After lunch, between about 3 & 4pm I had a wander around the National Gallery, where I saw one painting by E.A.WALTON, among several other by the Glasgow Boys. I then went to the Edinburgh Central Library for about an hour, between 4 & 5pm to look at some OPR micro-films.

Scotland trip – May 2017 – day 1 – traveling

I’m off to Scotland where I’m staying for a week with a relative in Edinburgh, and going to do some research, in Edinburgh, West Lothian, Glasgow, and elsewhere. Then I’m going on to a big family gathering (on the HUTCHISON side of my family), staying in Ayrshire.

I aim to write and post a little bit each day about what I’m researching and what I find during my stay in Edinburgh. But for personal privacy, the posting of these travels on AFamilyHistoryBlog will be delayed by a few days, and not necessarily in day by day order!

Update; You can now see all the posts from my May 2017 Scotland trip, here;
Day 1 – day 2 – day 3 – day 4 – day 5 – day 6 – day 7 – & day 8 & the big family gathering.

I set off this morning from my home in Norfolk, by bus to Peterborough, then by train (on a pre-booked ticket) to Edinburgh.

I expect to be doing some research on both the WALKER and HUTCHISON sides of my family, but probably with the greater focus on the WALKERs who came from the West Lothian area.

Markers of know places of birth of my ancestors in the WALKER and CADZOW branches

WO Hutchison portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to be sold at auction in Edinburgh

I have heard this evening (from an uncle) that a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, painted by my Great-Grandfather; William Oliphant Hutchison, is due to be sold at auction by Bonhams in Edinburgh on 12th April 2016.

Here is the press release from the Bonhams website;

Sir William Oliphant Hutchison PRSA RP (British, 1889-1970) Portrait of Her Majesty the Queen

A portrait of Her Majesty the Queen by the Scottish artist, Sir William Oliphant Hutchison, is to be sold at Bonhams annual Scottish Sale on 12 April. It is estimated at £30,000-50,000.

Until it was acquired by its current owner, the painting hung for many years on the walls of the former Police Staff College at Bramshill House in Hampshire.

Sir William was born in Fife in 1889 and studied at Edinburgh College of Art (1909-12) under E. A. Walton, one of the Glasgow Boys group of artists, whose daughter he married. He also spent time working and studying in Paris.

On leaving college in 1912, he founded the Edinburgh Group which exhibited for three consecutive years before the First World War intervened.

As a painter, Hutchison specialized in portraits and after the retirement of Sir James Gunn assumed the mantle of Scotland’s premier society portraitist. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh owns five of his works including a study of the Queen dating from 1956. The BBC owns another portrait of Her Majesty also from 1956 and Hutchison painted Prince Philip in the late 1950s. One of these is owned by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and one by the Defense Academy of the United Kingdom. His well-known portrait of the novelist Dorothy L. Sayers hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Bonhams Head of Scottish Art, Chris Brickley, said: “Sir William was a pillar of the Scottish art establishment – Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943 and the President of the Royal Scottish Academy during most of the 1950s – but he also was a very fine artist. His works rarely appear at auction and I expect his portrait of the Queen to attract considerable interest.”

William Hutchison who was an Honorary Royal Academician, was knighted in 1953 and died in London in 1970.

Bonhams’ annual Scottish sale is now in its 17th year. As usual it will feature works by leading Scottish artists as well as a huge range of objects related to Scotland from highland dress and weapons to silver and glass; from books and furniture to ceramics. The sale will take place at Bonhams Edinburgh saleroom, 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JJ over two days, 12 and 13 April.

Another website describes the painting as an “oil on canvas, 245cm x 153cm (8ft ½in x 5ft ¼in), in a carved giltwood frame surmounted by a coronet”.

Other details of the auction are available here; http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23492/

Images of a selection of William Oliphant Hutchison’s paintings, that are owned by public collections in the UK, can be seen on the BBC’s “Your Paintings” website; http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-oliphant-hutchison

I have just found a piece about W.O. Hutchison, with photos of him (including one with the Queen), and of some of his paintings, here; http://tweedlandthegentlemansclub.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/sir-william-oliphant-hutchison.html

What I know about my Great-Grandfather W.O. Hutchison’s ancestry, I have posted here; https://afamilyhistoryblog.wordpress.com/family-trees/hutchison-tree/ or please see the Hutchison tag, and the HUTCHISON and OLIPHANT categories of this site.

HUTCHISON family gathering – May 2015

During the May half-term week, 2015, the Hutchison family had a great time on our regular “big family holiday”. This has typically been held every two years in recent times. But this time was the second consecutive year that we’ve been to stay at a site in the Teifi Valley, south Wales (on the border between Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion). Finding places to stay that can accommodate such a large family group is very challenging, and this site fitted us very well.

The extended HUTCHISON family (4 generations) – whole group photo, dressed up as “pirates”, on the BIG family holiday, May 2015

The family group this time totaled 39 people; 4 generations; 27 adults, plus 2 teenagers, and 10 aged 10 or under. The young second cousins all had a great time running around together. A theme of “Pirates”  had been set for the week, and one evening we all dressed up for a “Pirate party” – partly as a birthday party for one of my cousins, who’s birthday it was that day, and also for the 4 other family members with birthdays in May. This is when we had a whole group photo.

During the week my gran gave little St John’s Gospels to various family members. These gospels are replicas of ones given to soldiers in the First World War, which were produced last year to mark the 100th anniversary of the war.

These replica gospels were being given away through local churches and my gran had picked up 10 copies with the idea of giving one to each grandchild, with some details added about their Great-grandfathers who had served in the First World War. And she had tasked me with compiling those details to add to the gospels.

It was a challenge working out what to fit into such a small page space – the booklets are 11.5 cm (4 ½”) high x 7 cm (2 ¾”) wide! The details I was able to include – on a single extra page stuck inside the front of the booklets – were as follows;

• William Oliphant HUTCHISON; b. 2/7/1889, Kirkcaldy, Fife. d. 5/2/1970, Kensington, London. Family were Corn Merchants in Kirkcaldy. He studied art at Edinburgh College of Art; 1909 – 1912. Served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during WW1, in Malta and in France, where he was severely wounded.
• Ernest Garfield SWAIN; b. 20/8/1881, Leicester. d. 26/3/1968 (aged 86). Shoe and boot maker “E.G.Swain & Co.”, then Wholesale Confectionary for Clarnico & Co. Enlisted in the Leicester Regiment (TA) circa 1915. Appointed an officer; Second Lieutenant, Territorial Force, 4^th Battalion (1/4^th Battalion) The Leicestershire Regiment, on 21/11/1915. Deployed to France, where he suffered shrapnel injuries to his left leg and eye.

Currently we’re not sure of the whereabouts of any of the medals that either of these two Great-grandfathers had (possibly somewhere in the wider families)! But I’ve had a search of the British Army medal index cards, on-line at the National Archives (UK), where I believe I’ve identified both their records, which I could order digital images of to gain some more details of their war service.

OLIPHANT papers – Note of A. ANDERSON at the Glasgow Bank

For some context, and an index to these documents, please SEE HERE.

If you can help with the transcription of these documents please get in touch.

Please click on the images to see the scans at full resolution.

Attached is a .pdf of the Descendants of Henry OLIPHANT (b. 1741), which I hope helps to explain the relationships in the document below.

George BEVERIDGE, Robert OLIPHANT, William THOMSON, and Alexander ANDERSON, were all sons-in-law of Henry OLIPHANT. Robert was also Henry’s nephew.

Robert OLIPHANT (Jr), Henry, William and James OLIPHANT, were the surviving sons of Henry OLIPHANT, by his second wife, Janet HUTCHISON (or HUTCHESON).

Please see the “Henry Oliphant estate” tag for all the documents relating to his estate.

OLIPHANT papers; envelope 1; document 6;

Cover; 

Inside;

Transcription;

Note of Mr A. Anderson […] at Glasgow Bank
1827 – May 1st; Principal sum due at Bank […] Note ; £1045 –  2s – 8d ;  —- . —- . —-
Interest calculated up to 15 May ; £45 – 13s – 4d ;  —- . —- . —-
—————- ; ——————
£1090 – 16s – -d ;  —- . —- . —-
one half of which is ; —- . —- . —- ; £545 – 8s – -d

Mr Geo[rge] Beveridge’s one eighth prop[ortion] ; £ 68 – 3s – 6d ;  —- . —- . —-
Rob[ert] Oliphant’s —-“—- —-“—- —–“—– ; £ 68 – 3s – 6d ;  —- . —- . —-
Mr Thomson’s  proportion  ; £ 81 – 16s – 2 7/8d ;  —- . —- . —-
Rt. (Robert) Oliphant [Jr]’s  ——-“——   ; £ 81 – 16s – 2 5/8d ;  —- . —- . —-
Henry Oliphant’s heir’s   ——-“——   ; £ 81 – 16s – 2 5/8d ;  —- . —- . —-
Wm. (William) Oliphant’s   ——-“——   ; £ 81 – 16s – 2 5/8d ;  —- . —- . —-
Ja. (James) Oliphant’s   ——-“——   ; £ 81 – 16s – 2 5/8d ;  —- . —- . —-
================ ; —————–
; £545 – 8s – -d

Mr Ferguson gave up to Mr Anderson the [composition] of £3/6 […]
upon this one half of the cash acc[ount] but […] it [and] upon the
understanding that his friends would do the same in order to
benefit his family. Rob[ert] and Wm. (William) Oliphant have no [obligations]
as to this altho they will be under the [necesity] of [paying] Mr Thomson’s
proportion without the [smallest] chance of [over] […] [back]
a farthing as he [has] [not] the means Mr […] [states] that
Mr Ferguson would be ready with his half at [Whit sunday]
and it is […] able that a settlement should be made
finally at that [point] as in the [care] of his death [are]
Bank[…] [happening] amongst the [parties] it [will]
become much [harder] generally – The allocating of the
[composition] […] […] it is [de…able] to […] […]
it will be allo[acted] –

OLIPHANT papers – receipt bundle

This post contains the details of a bundle of 35 receipts, dated 1843, that are part of one of two envelopes of old documents relating to the OLIPHANTs of Kirkcaldy in Fife.

To see my index of the other documents in these envelopes, please CLICK HERE.

There are 35 receipts;
Most are dated 1843.
Most are billed to Mrs Oliphant.
They are listed here in the order in which they were found bundled.

(Click on the receipt images to view as slide shows at a larger scale. To exit a slide show, click the “X” in the top left corner.)

1. Paid 31st July 1843; £ -/2/- ; to John [Skinner?]
2. dated 24th October 1843; £3/18/4 ; to Alex McLean
3. dated 1843; £ -/8/- ; to Robert Hutchison & Co.
4. dated 1843; £ -/12/6 ½ ; to Mr Thomson
5. dated 1843; £ -/11/2 ; to Jacob [Fawcett?]
6. Paid 17th Oct 1843; £ -/14/6 ; to Robert Hutchison & Co.
   

   1843, Mrs Oliphant, J [Skinner], March [2], […] £-/2/-, paid, -/2/-, July 31, J [Skinner]

   

   1843, John [Skinner], £0/2/-, 31st July, Paid

   

   Skeddoway, 24th October 1843, Mrs Oliphant to Alex[ander] McLean for butter as under; to a jar containing 38 pounds at 10 [pence] per lb – £1/11/8, to a jar containing 30 pounds at 10 [pence] per lb – £1/5/0, to a jar containing 26 pounds at 10 [pence] per lb – £1/1/8, [Total] £3, 18, 4, Alex McLean

   

   Mrs Oliphant, Kirkcaldy. 1843, Alex McLean, £3/18/4.

   

   Mrs Oliphant, 1843, Kirkcaldy. To Robert Hutchison, & Co. Potatoes, £-/8/-, Paid

   

   Mrs Oliphant, 1843, R. Hutchison, £-/8/-. Paid

   

   Mrs Oliphant, […] [of] Mr Thomson, to […] […] [14 1/4] at 9 1/2 […] £-/11/3 1/2. – 1 1/2 [Outter] at 10 [….] – £-/1/3. – £-/12/6 1/2. – £-/12/6. […] & payment, Mr Thomson

   

   1843, Mr Thomson, £0/12/6, Paid

   

   Kirkcaldy Nov 22nd 1843, Mrs Oliphant, to Elliott [Fawcett], to English Coals £21/2/0, £7/2/0, Cut £14/0/0 – 16/ 11/2, settled [Jacob] [Fawcett]

   

   Mrs Oliphant, 1843, Jacob [Fawcet], £0/11/2, Paid

   

   Mrs Oliphant, 1843, Kirkcaldy. To Robert Hutchison, & Co. August 28th […] 1/2 bag Meal ~~~ £-/14/6. October 17th, received payment.

   

   Mrs Oliphant, 1843, R. Hutchison, £0/14/6. 17th October, Paid
7. Paid 20th March 1843; £ 1/15/- ; to [Mrs?] Davie
8. dated 5th Oct 1843; £ -/5/3 ; to The Fife Sentinel (newspaper)
9. dated 1843; £ -/8/- ; to Mr Thomson
10. dated 1843; £ -/6/6 ; to Mr A Strange
11. dated 25th March 1843; £ 1/-/- ; to Kirkcaldy Burgh
12. dated 1843; £ 2/17/5 ; to Tho. Dryburgh re “Assessed Taxes”
    

    Mrs Oliphant, […] Kirkcaldy, […] 1843, March 20th 1843, £1/15/-

    

    Mrs Oliphant, 1843, [Mrs] Davie, March 20th, £1/15/-

    

    Mr R Oliphant, [sail]-maker, Kirkcaldy, Sept 13th, To the proprietor of the Fife Sentinel (newspaper), Cupar-Fife, Received payment for the Proprietor

    

    1843, […] £0/5/3, Paid

    

    £-/8/-, settled, Mr Thomson

    

    1843, Mr Thomson, £-/8/-, Paid

    

    Mrs Oliphant, to A Strange, 3 […] £2/2/- = £6/6/-, 2 […] £3/9/- = £7/6/-, (total) £14/-/-.

    

    1843, [.] Strange, £-/6/6, Paid

    

    Mrs Oliphant, to A Strange, £-/4/-

    

    No 837, Kirkcaldy, 1st May 1843, Received from Mrs Oliphant for house [& garden] the Sum of £1/-/- Sterling, being her Assessment under the Act for the IMPROVEMENT of the BURGH, at the rate of One Shilling per Pound of Rent, for the Year commencing at Martinmas, 1842, and payable on the 25th March, 1843.

    

    No 51. ASSESSED TAXES, 1842-43. No 663. Mr Robert Oliphant, Kirkcaldy. To Duty on 13 Windows for the year from Whitsunday 1842 … £2/12/3. Note- The Duty on all the following Articles is charged for the year ABOVE MENTIONED, according to the number kept at any one time, between WHITSUNDAY 1841 and WHITSUNDAY 1842. 10 per cent. 3d Vict.cap.17 – £-/5/2, (total) £2/17/5. Received Payment, Tho Drybrugh

    

    1843, Tho[mas] Dryburgh, £2/17/5.
13. dated 19th July 1843; £ -/3/6 ; to Mr Morton
14. paid 3rd July 1843; £ 1/6/3 ; to Kirkcaldy China Store
15. paid 7th July 1843; £6/10/- ; to Allardice & Sclanders
16. paid 11th July 1843; £-/4/7 ; to J & J Baxter, Glass Cutters
17. paid 26th Sept 1843; £-/14/11 ; to George Hepburn, Grocer
18. paid 17th Oct 1843; £-/8/- ; to J Meldrum
    

    Kirkcaldy, 19th July 1843, [Mrs] Oliphant, To [Mr Morton], […] £-/2/6, […] £-/1/-, £-/3/6, [Received Payment] M. Morton

    

    1843, M. Morton, £0/3/6, Paid

    

    Kirkcaldy China Store, Mrs R. Oliphant, Bought of Martin Rigney, Glass, China & Stoneware Merchant, 1842, Dec 30th, To one [dozen] 1/2 Pint tumblers – £-/7/-. 1843, Febuary 18th, to two [obseured] & [figured] Gas Glasses [@ 3/~] – £-/6/-. March 17th, To one Dozen Gold Edge Muffin Plates – £-/6/-. May 18th, to one obseured & figured Gas Glass – £-/3/-. Six Supper Plates 1/3 & cover for […] [dish 1/4] – £-/2/3. (total) £1/6/3. 3rd July Settled […] […]

    

    Mrs R Oliphant. 1843, Martin Rigney, £1/6/3, 3rd July, Paid

    

    1843, Alerdice [& Co], £6/10/-, July 7th, Paid

    

    To Allardice & Sclanders, 12 George Street, Edinburgh. 1843. July 11th, […][…] £6/10/-. Same time paid. Allardice & Sclanders

    

    1843, J & J Baxter, £-/4/7. 11th July, Paid

    

    […] To J & J Baxter, Crown Glass Cutters, No 18 Leith Street, Edinburgh. Plate, Crown, Flattened & Sheet Glass.- Stained Glass of every kind. Glaziers’ Patent Diamonds. 1843. July 11th […] […] £-/4/7. Settled […]

    

    […] Mrs Oliphant. 1843. Geo[rge] Hepburn, £-/14/11. Sept 26th. Paid.

    

    Mrs Oliphant. Kirkcaldy, 14th Sept 1843. Bought of George Hepburn, Wholesale and retail grocer. Teas, Coffees, Wines, Spirits, […] and Ales; Feeds, Oils, etc. 1 fine Belfast Ham – 13lb @ 5d – £-/5/5. 2 bot[tles] Ale @ 4 1/2d – £-/-/9. (=) £-/6/2. 10 [bottles Ale] @ 4 1/2d – £-/3/9. 1lb tea – £-/5/-. 26th Sept – Rec pay[ment] – £-/14/11. […] Hepburn.

    

    1843. [J] Meldrum, £0/8/-. 17th October, Paid.

    

    Kirkcaldy, Mrs Oliphant, To […] […], […] […]. [J] Meldrum, Oct 17th 1843
19. paid 3rd Jan 1843; £-/4/- ; to John Skinner
20. 1843 [3 receipts]; £-/13/9 [total]; to James Steel, Haberdasher.
21. paid 5th Dec 1843; £3/19/- ; to Andrew Fleming & Co.
22. paid 17th July 1843; £3/5/1 ½ ; to Meldrum sisters
23. paid 17th Feb 1843; £-/-/10 ; to John Anderson
24. dated 1843; £-/11/5 ; to Alex Hutchison
    

    1843, John Skinner, £0/4/-. 5th January, Paid.

    

    Kirkcaldy 1843, [Mrs] Oliphant, […] of John Skinner, [Jan] 3. 1/2 [ball] Potatoes £-/4/-. [Settled] J.Skinner.

    

    1842, […] – 5/9. 2/2-. 5/3. 1843} 13/2

    

    Kirkcaldy, Bought of James Steel, Silk Mercer, Linen & Woolen Draper. Family Mournings etc. […] […] £-/5/9. Paid, J Steel.

    

    Kirkcaldy. Bo’t of James Steel, Woollen & Linen Draper, Silk Mercer, & Haberdasher. […] […]. Paid £-/2/2. 1843 Kirkcaldy. Bo’t of James Steel, Woollen & Linen Draper, Silk Mercer, & Haberdasher. […] […]. £-/5/3. Paid, J Steel.

    

    1843. A Fleming & Co, £3/19/-. 5th Dec. Paid.

    

    Kirkcaldy 1843. Mrs Oliphant, to Andrew Fleming & Co. October 1st – […] […]. (total) £3/19/0 1/2.

    

    1843, Meldrum Sisters, £3/5/1 1/2. 17th July. Paid.

    

    79 [George] Street. [Mrs] Oliphant. [..] Meldrum Sisters. 1843, July 15th […] […]. (total) £3/5/1 1/2. Paid [..] Meldrum Sisters

    

    1843. John Anderson. £0/0/10. 17th February. Paid

    

    Mrs Oliphant. 1843, Bo[ugh]t of John Anderson, Kirkcaldy, [February] 17th […] […] £-/-/10d. [paid] cash settled, John Anderson

    

    1843. […] Alex[ander] Hutchison. February […], 11/5

    

    Mrs Rob[ert] Oliphant, to Alex Hutchison. 1843 [Feb] 4th – […] […]. (total) £-/11/5. Settled, Alex Hutchison.
25. dated 1843; £-/7/6 ; to Alex Hutchison
26. dated 1843; £-/8/7 ; to Alex Hutchison
27. dated 1843; £1/10/- ; to Richard Smith
28. paid 4th Jan 1843; £3/5/- ; to Alex Russell & Son
29. paid 2nd Jan 1843; £-/15/4 ; to Robert Brownlee
30. paid 9th Jan 1843; £-/11/6 ; to Miss Slate
    

    1843. February 2nd, Alex Hutchison, £-/7/6.

    

    Mrs Rob. Oliphant. To Alex Hutchison. 1843. […] […]. (total) £-/7/6. Settled, A Hutchison

    

    January 2nd 1843, [..] Alex Hutchison. £-/8/7.

    

    Mrs Rob Oliphant. Bo[ugh]t of Alex Hutchison. 1842, Dec 2nd […] […]. (total) £-/8/7 1/2. Settled, Alex Hutchison. Kirkcaldy, January 2nd 1843.

    

    1843. […] [R] Smith. […] [work] £1/10/-. January 3rd.

    

    Mrs Oliphant, Kirkcaldy. To Richard Smith. £sd. 1842. Jan[uar]y 27th – 1 […] [pad] lock [repaired] & new key – £0/1/2. March 11th – 1 Hock lock [repaired] new key & [..] – £0/1/4. 1 new […] & […] 2/3 – £0/2/3. […] […]. (total) £1/0/10. 1843 January 3rd, Rec[eived] Pay[ment] – Rich Smith

    

    1843. Alex Russell & son. £3/5/-. 4th January. Paid

    

    Kirkcaldy Foundery Warehouse. Mrs Oliphant […]. Bought of Alex Russell & Son. 1842 February 15th […] […]. (total) £3/5/-. 1843 [January] 4th – Settled […]

    

    1843. Rob Brownlee. £-/15/4. 2nd Jan. Paid.

    

    Mrs Oliphant. To Robert Brownlee, Kirkcaldy. 1842. Janu 29th […] […]. (total) £-/15/4. 1843 Janu 2nd – Settled, Robert Brownlee.

    

    1843. [Misses] Slate. £-/11/6. 9th Jan. Paid.

    

    Edinburgh, 6th […] 1842. Mrs Oliphant, To Misses Slate, 70 George Street. 1842, July 29th […] […] £-/11/6. Settled by cash. 9th January 1843.
31. paid 9th Jan 1843; £2/5/4 ; to Miss Slate
32. £-/18/4 ; to ?
33. dated 1843; £-/16/5 ; to Alex Hutchison
34. May 1842; £1/-/- ; Burgh Tax, Kirkcaldy
35. May 1842; £2/17/5 ; Assessed Taxes
    

    1843. [Misses] Slate. £2/5/4. 9th Jan. Paid.

    

    Edinburgh, 6th […] 1842. Mrs Oliphant, To Misses Slate, 70 George Street. 1842, July 24th […] […] £2/5/4. Settled by cash. 9th January 1843.

    

    Mrs Oliphant. Bought of [Mr] […]. […] […] […]. (total) £-/18/4. Settled […]

    

    1843 – £sd. February 27th [..] £0/16/5. Alex Hutchison

    

    Mrs Rob Oliphant. Bo[ugh]t of Alex Hutchison. 1843. [Feb] 15th. […] […]. Settled, Alex Hutchison. (total) £-/16/5.

    

    Mrs Oliphant. May 1842. [..] Burgh [tax]. £1

    

    No 841. Kirkcaldy, 1st May 1842. Received from Mrs Oliphant for house & garden the Sum of £1/-/- Sterling, being her Assessment under the Act for the IMPROVEMENT of the BURGH, at the rate of One Shilling per Pound of Rent, for the Year commencing at Martinmas, 1841, and payable on the 25th March, 1842.

    

    May 1842 […]. Taxes. £2/17/5.

    

    No 51. ASSESSED TAXES, 1841-42. No 659. Mr Robert Oliphant, Kirkcaldy. To Duty on 13 Windows for the year from Whitsunday 1841 to Whitsunday 1842 … £2/12/3. Note- The Duty on all the following Articles is charged for the year ABOVE MENTIONED, according to the number kept at any one time, between WHITSUNDAY 1840 and WHITSUNDAY 1841. 10 per cent. 3d Vict.cap.17 – £-/5/2, (total) £2/17/5. Received Payment, Tho Drybrugh

I’m adding my scanned images of these receipts as several small galleries (due to the number of images). For most of the receipts I have two images – front and back (labeled “a” & “b”). Click on any receipt image to view that gallery as a slide show at a larger scale. Fuller transcriptions of the receipts are included as captions to the images. From the slide show you can open full resolution views of the scanned images.

HUTCHISON ancestors

In no particular order I’m making several posts to show my known ancestors, in a “pedigree view”, starting each pedigree with one of my great-grandparents (for people’s personal privacy I will not give details of the more recent generations).

The Roman Numeral in front of a name indicates the generation (counting backwards) and the number of “great”s that you need to add to describe their relationship to me. i.e.

• “-i-” = my “great-grandparent”,
• “-iv-” = my “4x-great-grandparent”.

Click the numeral to link to any posts tagged with that individual’s name, or to all the posts tagged with that surname (if the individual person doesn’t have a tag).

If someone’s name is highlighted as a hyperlink, you can click that link to an external webpage with information about that person. I generally favour entries on Wikipedia, though other sources may come up if there is nothing on Wikipedia, or if the alternative offers better information.

Here are the HUTCHISONs of Kirkcaldy in Fife (also including the OLIPHANTs, BARKERs, and others).

 

-v-[ Jonh HUTCH(E)SON, b. ???, d. ???, m. 20/06/1773, Kirkcaldy

-iv-[ Alexander HUTCHISON, b. ../../1772, Kirkcaldy, d. ???, m. 09/08/1804, Kirkcaldy, Fife.

-v-[ Isabel BETT (or BEATT), b. ???, d. ???

-iii-[ Robert HUTCHISON, b. 07/09/1806, Kirkcaldy, d. 07/11/1883, Kirkcaldy, m. 18/04/1837, Kirkcaldy.

(See a portrait painting of Robert HUTCHISON, HERE ]

-v-[ Robert BINNIE, b. ???, d. ???, m. 21/05/1768, Cramond, Mid Lothian.

-iv-[ Joanna BINNIE, b. ../../1782, Cramond, Mid Lothian, d. ???

-v-[ Janet GEDDES, b. ???, d. ???

-ii-[ Henry William HUTCHISON, b. 15/04/1849, d. ../../1922, m. ???

-vi-[ Robert OLIPHANT, b. abt 1696, Kirkcaldy, d. ../../1772, Kirkcaldy, m. ???

-v-[ William OLIPHANT*, b. abt 1728, Kirkcaldy, d. ../../1777, Kirkcaldy, m. 11/04/1763

-vi-[ Janet BELL (or BUTT), b. ???, d. ???

-iv-[ Robert OLIPHANT, b. 02/09/1765, d. ???, m. 03/01/1797, Edinburgh.

-vi-[ George BARKER, b. ../../1704, d. ???, m. 28/12/1732

-v-[ Mary BARKER*, b. ../../1733, Kirkcaldy, d. ../../1775, Kirkcaldy.

-vi-[ Christian BELL (or BETT), b. ???, d. ???

-iii-[ Mary OLIPHANT, b. 25/04/1808, d. ../../1852

-v-[ Henry OLIPHANT*, b. ../../1741, d. ???, m. 01/12/1776

-iv-[ Janet OLIPHANT, b. 19/10/1777, d. ???

-v-[ Christian BARKER*, b. ../../1741, d. 02/12/1777

-i-[ (Sir) William Oliphant HUTCHISON, b. 02/07/1889, Dysart, Fife, d. 05/02/1970, Cambridge, m. 15/11/1918, Edinburgh, to Margery WALTON. [See WALTON ancestry HERE]

-iii-[ John KEY, b. ???, d. ???, m. 25/04/1845

-ii-[ Sarah “Hannah” KEY, b. ../../1850, d. ../../1938

-iii-[ Sarah WHITE (or WHYTE), b. ???, d. ???

* Notes; William OLIPHANT (b. abt 1728), and Henry OLIPHANT (b.1741) were brothers. Their respective wives, Mary BARKER (b. 1733), and Christian BARKER (b. 1741) were sisters.

Click here to download as a PDF file;
HUTCHISON ancestors – Jan2014version

I can go back 2 further generations from Robert OLIPHANT (b. abt 1696), and 1 further generation from George BARKER (b. 1704). But that gets a bit leggy in this format, in a WordPress post! So I’ll stop at 6 generations.

* Sources;

Hutchison family tree – compiled circa 1987, by Douglas HUTCHISON (C.B.E.), of Bolfracks, Aberfeldy, Perthshire.

OLIPHANTs of Kirkcaldy – Tree compiled by James Hunter MacGregor (genealogist), June 1917, now in the library at St Andrews University, Fife. Comissioned by Mary Christian HUTCHISON, dau. of Robert HUTCHISON and Mary OLIPHANT. Thanks to Roddy OLIPHANT for finding this document and sharing it over the internet with the current descendants of the Kirkcaldy OLIPHANTs. Also to the other relatives, particularly Anne HAENGA and Gordon McCONNELL (both in New Zealand), for their input – correcting some errors in James Hunter’s origional work, and adding new details. Several long forum threads between us can be found on the OLIPHANT GenForum at Genealogy.com

A letter to me from Robin HUTCHISON (my Great Uncle) in Aug 2004 with various notes, including a transcribed extract from Mary WHITE’s Diary, circa 1867 – “kept while she was visiting her scottish relatives” around Kirkcaldy in Fife.

Family notes – kept by Priscilla HUTCHISON in a notebook/diary titled “A Diary of Edinburgh”.

International Genealogical Index (IGI) – My own searches of the index, used mainly to double-check other sources. Not to be fully relied on by itself. Given the chance I like to look at the OPR microfilms (from which the IGI is transcribed), which tend to contain many more details than the IGI.

My apologies if I’ve missed any particular sources or credits that I should have given. I believe that these are my major sources.

Names and locations of interest

In this post I’m going to try and list all the surnames and locations that are of interest to me on this site. I expect to come back to add to or edit this list from time to time. [See the Names of Interest pages for updates].

SURNAMEs here are written in CAPITAL LETTERS.

Place names are written with just the first letter in Capital. These places might be individual houses or farms, the parish, village, or town where someone lived or worked, or a wider geographical area.

Alternative spelling variations will be shown in italics. These will appear (in brackets) following what I consider to be the main spelling, or themselves followed (in brackets) by the main spelling.

I will attempt to use all these names as “Tags” in any posts that relate to that name.

So, in no particular order;

HUTCHISON, OLIPHANT, & BARKER – all in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

WALTON, & HENDERSON – in Renfrewshire, Scotland

SWAIN, TWITE

MAWER – in Sibsey, Lincolnshire.

WALKER – in Kirkliston, West Lothian.

JOHNSTON – in Bathgate, West Lothian.

FLINT – in West Lothian

BARRON (vari.; BARON) – in Mid Lothian / West Lothian.

CADZOW (vari.; KADZOW) – in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

ELLIOTT –

FRY – from Wiltshire / Bristol.

EYRE – from London.

BUCKNALL – in Stroud, Gloucestershire.