The Rosehall Murders of 1909
A collection of newspaper clippings of articles related to the murder of Neil Hughes, a pedlar, in Rosehall in March 1909. there are also a number of articles about the murder of an infant found at Invernauld that occurred around the same time.
The clippings were in an envelope addressed to Alexander Mackay, Rosehall, which was found behind a drawer of a wooden unit belonging to the donor's grandfather, Christopher Murray....
Date Added: 30 June 2025
Notebook/ Jotter with red plastic cover embossed with gold
Notebook/Jotter with unlined paper in a red plastic cover embossed with gold with sketch of Dornoch Cathedral and text 'Dornoch Ca...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Letter from Mamie Currie in Wisconsin to Donald Grant
Typewritten letter from Mamie Currie in Wisconsin, US to Mr Donald Grant concerning his writings in the Northern Times about Dorno...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Notice from the factor about Eviction of Sutherland Estate tenants
Typed copy, transcribed from handwritten original of a notice from the factor about forthcoming eviction of Sutherland Estate tena...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Letter to the District Clerk re moving the War Memorial
Typewritten letter from Mr Graham Ross to the District Clerk of Sutherland District Council re concern about the proposed moving o...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Beaconlighters Cook Book
Edited by Mrs Barbara Horrocks, wife of Commandant Royal Observer Corps (ROC) Air Cdr Horrocks, to commemorate the 400th anniversa...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Riding High - Dornoch's weathercock back on its perch
Article from the Northern Times of April 23, 1976 entitled "Riding High" - Dornoch's weathercock back on its perch. (see picture...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Police report and list of crew members from the sinking of the Courier of Barth
Photocopied document including pages from the Dornoch Register of Deaths (1877) listing members of the crew of The Courier of Bart...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Dornoch Primary School raise money for Tearfund
Article and photograph from the Northern Times published on 11th May 2004 about Dornoch Primary School P2 presenting to Shona Macp...
Date Added: 25 June 2025
Pupil's defective vision and speaker erected in Castle Street
A newspaper cutting from the '100 years ago' section of the Northern Times two items published in the issue of 14 May 1925. The f...
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This picture is of George Sutherland and children from his second marriage and not John Sutherland, George was a brother of my great great grandfather Robert Su Used to visit Aunt Nan and Aunt Jessie when they lived in Polk City Florida. Fun memories My grandparents James Macdonald was upholsterer at Skibo Castle my grandmother Louise Brodie was a seamstress at Skibo prior to Andrew Carnegie moving to Ameri In trying to find out a couple of things Where the rafts of timber were landed in France after A day Any information on the forestry corps in the Ardennes Rev .prof. George Middleton is my 8 th great grandfather. Many of the family are born , Married and buried in St Machar ,Aberdeen. Charles Gordon 1664- 1740 David Brownjohn (my Dad) is the gentleman standing at the back with his hands in his pockets I doubt that is Arthur Ryle as he was quite a bit larger of a man. He also did not become captain until 1905. The captain at 1900 was William Llewellyn Hacon. Produced by kitchen tala ware Also my father was awarded this same but I know very little about what regiment he was etc any advice or help would be appreciated kind regards terrymeager It's nice to see these old pictures. My grandmother was Jessie Ross. Her son, David, was in the US Army and worked in law enforcement Ohio. David Ross wasn't in the USMC. He was in the Army and served in Vietnam.