Echidna
16-Nov-07, 23:15
I have also posted this under Wick st names thread, but thought it was appropriate to post here as well, as this genealogy page seems to double up as a historical page as well....
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Originally Posted by trinkie http://forum.caithness.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?p=217524#post217524)
MacLEAY STREET ..... William MacLeay Agent of BFS
Provost of Wick.
I would be grateful if you or any fellow orger could confirm or deny if this William Macleay of the BFS was Sir William Macleay, second son of Kenneth Macleay Esq. of Keiss Castle.
Curiously I discovered perchance only today in my genealogical cemetery meanderings a Tomb momument in Waverley Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia a Tomb in the memory of Sir William Macleay born Keiss Caithness 1820 died circa 1893. The headstone made of magnificent red granite has stood the test of time for over one hundred years on a cliff over looking the Tasman Sea and looks like it was erected only yesterday!
The inscription has the curious lettering after Sir Wiliam's name and details it reads K.B.F.L.S.
Can anyone confirm or deny if my understanding of this acronym/acrostic? could be interpreted as
'KEISS BORN FOREVER LOVED SCOTLAND"
I will take a camera on my next trip to the big smoke (Sydney) and post it somewhere for those interested to see. Sir William is buried with his wife Emmeline who was the second daughter of the Hon Edward Deas Thomson the Colonial Secretary from 1837 to ? (more research needed.. maybe suggest a google for those interested in Caithness NSW links).
I doubt whether my Keiss Caithness forbears who arrived in Sydney in 1882 would have had any contact with his illustrious former neighbour..such was and is Sydney "society" cirlcles..........
Anyone with access to the 19th century Census info may assist with some details of when he may have emmigrated (WHICH DECADE?). I would appreciate it muchly!!
checkout this web address for the Australian Dictinary of Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050212b.htm
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Originally Posted by trinkie http://forum.caithness.org/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/go.php?url=http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?p=217524#post217524)
MacLEAY STREET ..... William MacLeay Agent of BFS
Provost of Wick.
I would be grateful if you or any fellow orger could confirm or deny if this William Macleay of the BFS was Sir William Macleay, second son of Kenneth Macleay Esq. of Keiss Castle.
Curiously I discovered perchance only today in my genealogical cemetery meanderings a Tomb momument in Waverley Cemetery Sydney NSW Australia a Tomb in the memory of Sir William Macleay born Keiss Caithness 1820 died circa 1893. The headstone made of magnificent red granite has stood the test of time for over one hundred years on a cliff over looking the Tasman Sea and looks like it was erected only yesterday!
The inscription has the curious lettering after Sir Wiliam's name and details it reads K.B.F.L.S.
Can anyone confirm or deny if my understanding of this acronym/acrostic? could be interpreted as
'KEISS BORN FOREVER LOVED SCOTLAND"
I will take a camera on my next trip to the big smoke (Sydney) and post it somewhere for those interested to see. Sir William is buried with his wife Emmeline who was the second daughter of the Hon Edward Deas Thomson the Colonial Secretary from 1837 to ? (more research needed.. maybe suggest a google for those interested in Caithness NSW links).
I doubt whether my Keiss Caithness forbears who arrived in Sydney in 1882 would have had any contact with his illustrious former neighbour..such was and is Sydney "society" cirlcles..........
Anyone with access to the 19th century Census info may assist with some details of when he may have emmigrated (WHICH DECADE?). I would appreciate it muchly!!
checkout this web address for the Australian Dictinary of Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050212b.htm