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I am no longer taking on research for clients. The website will remain live while I decide what to do with the blog content.

I may post blogs related to North Walls and Brims or my own family history from time to time.

Jane Harris March 2025

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Harrowing with oxen in Longhope, Orkney

The photo below shows my father’s cousin Sandy Barnett harrowing with oxen at the Lythes, Longhope, Orkney, Scotland (parish of Walls). Alexander Barnett (1907-1941), to give him his full name, was probably in his late teens or twenties at the time. That means the photo would have been taken in the 1920s or 1930s when  |  more…

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