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Bertie's other Dau page needs remaining text which is duplicated removed. Bottom area has text from the private site which no longer exists. Some that was also in the public site has been removed but some duplication probably remains.
In "Frances' Own Words" consider adding near start, details of Madeleine and Erica's relationship to Frances
This email dated 5.12.23 relates to a subject(s) on this site and unfortunately I have not been in a position to reply so am putting t here in the hope it well be of interest and perhaps even someone will be able to move it forward! NJH
from:
Jim Mackay <james_m_mackay@hotmail.com>
to:
"Njhnw5@gmail.com" <Njhnw5@gmail.com>
date:
5 Dec 2023, 11:53
subject:
Barkley and Barkly families
Hi Nick,
On your excellent Fenwick of Lambton website you mention you would like feedback from visitors to your site. I'm Jim Mackay of the Kirkmichael Trust here in the Black Isle which is seeking to put online the stories relating to most of the old memorials within the Kirkmichael Churchyard.
Note that there are several Kirkmichaels and the correct one is half of the United Parish of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden commonly called Resolis, just west of Cromarty. Your website makes several references to the Kirkmichael across in Banffshire.
Some years ago good Friend of Kirkmichael Nick Hide wrote a story on the Barkly family who have an enclosure at Kirkmichael https://www.kirkmichael.info/BarklyEnclosure.html which I've edited a bit as new information became available.
I felt that the origins of the family online were so mixed up that a study of the original deeds, sasines, legal actions etc. would be of benefit and that story is hopefully the most authoritative study of the early Barkly family going. https://www.kirkmichael.info/LocalBarklyStory.html
And more recently I did the same for the time when the Barkly family held Mounteagle and that is now the story here:
https://www.kirkmichael.info/Urquhart_of_Mounteagle_Barkly_of_Mounteagle.html
Currently I've been working on the Barkly Papers in the National Library of Scotland which means I'll need to update all three of those!
My focus has been on the original Gilbert in Ballicherry and thereafter on the line descended from tacksman Alexander Barkly, his son. There is relatively little on the line descended from Alexander's brother James Barkley, innkeeper/vintner/merchant, as when he moved to Cromarty there wasn't much engagement thereafter with Kirkmichael. But recently I've been reading "The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley" which, while it is a fascinating read, raises several clearly wrong assertions about the Barkly branch cheating the Barkley branch out of an estate or property called Shingleside in Cromarty, and of the local records relating to the Barkleys being removed.
In fact I see there are two baptism entries to James Barkley and Jean Morrison in the Cromarty baptism register, and mentions of them in other documents. And whilst James Barkley did indeed hold a property in Cromarty, the boundaries of which are recorded in the sasines, he sold it to an Andrew Munro to whom he was in debt. Alexander Barkly his brother purchased several properties in Cromarty and I must check to see if the boundaries of any of them match up with the James Barkley one. Alexander Barkly II inherited them but the transfer wasn't formalised until AEneas, son of Alexander Barkly II, who was making lots of money in London, bought them off his father. He also bought Mounteagle across in Easter Ross (his mother was of the Urquhart family of Mounteagle).
I wish the authors of "The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley" had looked at the factual evidence but I suppose it might have been difficult for them at the time not being based in Scotland.
Just wondering if you have anything on these aspects which might assist in looking at this in more detail? I'm half-minded to work up a story on the James Barkley side as they have some very colourful characters. And they clearly did keep in contact with the AEneas Barkly side.
Anyway, this started as a couple of lines and has grown somewhat so I'd better end here!
Best wishes,
Jim
This email dated 2.1.24 relates to a subject(s) on this site and unfortunately I have not been in a position to reply so am putting t here in the hope it well be of interest and perhaps even someone will be able to move it forward! NJH
from:
tony@bridgwaterheritage.com
Hello,
My name is Tony Woolrich, retired Hon Curator of the Blake Museum
Bridgwater and co-editor of www.bridgwaterheritage.org/
We are thinking about making a page about the Trevor family of
Bridgwater, including a dynasty of lawyers
I note you have a picture of John Trevor with a walking stick. This was
by John Chubb, the Bridgwater artist See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chubb_(artist)
The reference to it is Blake Museum, Bridgwater; Chubb Collection,
Ref: BWRAB: 1977/53/53. Can you add it, please?
Also at 9.5 you note Rev George Trevor 1809-1888, and describe him as
Rector of Bridgwater -- (see Wikipedia for his biography). This must be
in error for 10.6 Rev George Trevor (1845-1933) vicar of Holy Trinity,
Bridgwater. For more about Holy Trinity and Trever see:
https://bridgwaterheritage.com/wp/conservation/churches/anglican/holy-trinity/
Kind regards
Tony Woolrich
to:
njhnw5@gmail.com
date:
2 Jan 2024, 13:10
subject:
Rev Dr John Trevor (1740-1794)
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