As I am now winding down my family history research business, I will only take on work relating to Orkney or the north Highlands, with research from autumn 2023. This website will remain for the next year or so while I decide how to continue to make available some of the resources. My aim is | more…
The population of North Walls and Brims in the 1861 Census was 597; by 1911 it was 401. To try and get behind what was happening, I’m starting to look at children born there in 1835, 1845, 1855 and 1865. Were they migrants? Where did they die? I know that this approach is far from | more…
I’ve recently been looking at death records for the North Walls and Brims area, Orkney, Scotland, and one of my questions was “Were there many who died as young children?” I have a partial answer from the wonderful Populations Past website, the Atlas of Victorian and Edwardian Population. That site shows that in 1861 the | more…
