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From: "Joan Birtles" <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] BRAND family Cruden
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:23:42 +1100
References: <00fc01c93ff8$22497ad0$0100000a@JOAN> <4912C828.4060206@which.net>


Hi Gavin

Thanks again for your information. On searching the burial grounds site I
see they have very early records and although I search the MI's I forgot to
check the burial grounds website which in the past has led me to places to
search for my families.

>>I have been given a Peter Brand & his family living at Auchinten Cruden on
>>the 1861 census with quite a few servants living at this address including
>>an Alexander Stuart aged 20 working as a ploughman, who may be my
>>ggrandfather.

About how far would Cruden be from Stuartfield, Old Deer please....it
doesn't look too far on the map, and on the 1871 census Alexander Stuart's
parents William & Jane were living at Main St, village of Stuartfield, civil
parish of Old Deer so perhaps it could be that Alexander worked at Cruden
with the Brand family until his departure to Australia about 1869-1870.

Thank you
Joan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Bell" <>

> Joan Birtles wrote:
>
>>What cemetery would people who were living at Cruden be buried in please?
>>
> There are two burial grounds in the parish. The kirkyard surrounding the
> parish kirk, and St James Episcopal. You will find additional information
> on them at:
>
> http://www.abdnet.co.uk/burialgrounds/
>
>>I have been given a Peter Brand & his family living at Auchinten Cruden on
>>the 1861 census with quite a few servants living at this address including
>>an Alexander Stuart aged 20 working as a ploughman.
>>
>>I have looked at the Kirkyard MI's I have but very few people by the name
>>of Brand listed although I do not have anything for Cruden.
>>
>
> The MIs can be useful, but not everyone who was buried had a gravestone,
> and not all stones (or inscriptions) have survived. The MIs for Cruden
> are in draft form, so they may not be complete.
>
> One of the bits of information you will find on the above site suggests
> that burial records (as distinct from MIs) are available for Cruden from
> an unusually early date - but I don't know how complete they are, either.
> Remember, too, that while there is a presumption that in the rural 19th
> century, people would be buried in their "home" kirkyard, there was no
> inevitability about this - if the family had "emigrated" from a different
> parish, they may still have had burial rights there.
>
>
> Gavin Bell
>
>

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