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Nairnshire Miscellany

Transcription of Auldearn Churchyard Burial Register 1892-1899.

The 1921 Census for the Nairnshire parish of Cawdor (with header details), transcribed by Ken Nisbet.

Contributed by Don Ferguson, from the diary of Simon Morrison, the passage of a Cawdor family to Australia circa 1852.

List marriages from the Nairnshire Mirror, 1845-1854, transcribed by Stuart Farrell.

List of Nairnshire Artillery Volunteers and Nairnshire Rifle Volunteers, 7th August, 1860, attending a review at Holyrood Park, Edinburgh of the newly formed Scottish artillery and rifle volunteers before Queen Victoria, transcribed by Stuart Farrell.

List of Nairnshire Patients, Inverness District Asylum 1864-1899, transcribed by Stuart Farrell (for more information contact publications@morayandnairnfhs.co.uk)

Moray & Nairn Casualties of the Gordon Highlanders, 1811-1814, compiled by Stuart Farrell

Contributed by Christopher Richards, some Valentine & Sons Ltd samples of Nairn, and Nairnshire

Lethen Images: Images dated 1884 (Lethen Estate, Ardclach Parish): Mr James Mann and family at Cairnglass [1. Mann, Cairnglass]; Mrs Murdoch and family at Lynemore [2. Murdoch, Lynemore]; The Free School maintained at Knockandhu with teacher and pupils [3. School, Knockandhu]; Mr John Rose at Daltra [4. Rose, Daltra]; Mr Donald McQueen at the Carpenter’s Shop near Dulsie Bridge [5. McQueen, Dulsie]; James Falconer and Alexander Cattanach tying a salmon fly at Dunearn Lodge [6. Falconer & Cattanach, Dunearn]. Contributed, with notes, by Sarah Brodie.

Nairn Burgh and County Appeal Tribunals, 1916-1918, transcribed by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

Records from the estate of Lethen, transcribed by Sarah Brodie: Rental of the Estate of Lethen Crop and Year 1825 [GD247/67/23/4]; List of Persons holding Houses Rent free on the Estates of Lethen and Coulmony, 1829 [private papers, Lethen House: notebooks of James Campbell Brodie of Lethen]; Rental of the Estate of Lethen in the Counties of Nairn & Elgin As Let to Tenants crop 1829-1840 [Private Papers, Lethen House: Rent Ledger]; List of Poor People in the Parish of Ardclach 1838 [private papers, Lethen House: notebooks of James Campbell Brodie of Lethen]; and, a Steatment of all the People Inn the Esteat of Lethen who Pay for Cotter Houses to Tennants [private papers, Lethen House: Subtenants &c on Lethen Estate 1846 & 1847].

Extracts from Cawdor United Free Church Kirk Session, transcribed by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

List of patients 1914 - 1917, Ivybank Auxiliary Hospital, Nairn, and poem, "On a Wooden Leg" composed by Charles Millar, 1st Black Watch, awarded first prize at Old Mill Hospital Aberdeen, transcribed by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

Alton Burn School, Nairn's private school for boys, by Kenneth A M Nisbet - including 1901 and 1911 census listings.

Inhabitants of Nairn Union Poorhouse and Nairn Town and County Hospital on 2nd of April 1911, transcribed by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

Birth and Baptismal Roll for Nairn High United Free Church, by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

A Digest of Parochial Returns Made to the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Education of The Poor 1818, by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

Canadian marriages in Nairnshire, by Kenneth A M Nisbet.

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