Were your ancestors crofters? That is, living in one of the seven crofting counties of Scotland – Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross and Cromarty, Inverness-shire and Argyll – with a holding of not more than £30 in annual value or rent. If the answer is yes and they were there from 1886 onwards there’s a | more…
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Wellbraes, Crockness
In the early 1920s, John GF Ross, my grandfather, took over the tenancy of Wellbraes, Crockness, and moved there in 1921 with his wife, Walterina, and young son Jim. His parents John GH and Ann Ross, also his sister Mary Ann later joined them. The 1921 Census, taken on 19 June, shows that Sarah Ross | more…