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…
This is all that remains of the house on the former croft of Elster, near Lyness, in the island of Hoy, Orkney. Location map. My grandfather, John Ross, was born at Elster on 28 May 1889 and his family was still there on 5 April 1891 when the census was taken. But very recently, in | more…
