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Nairnshire Miscellany

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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